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Fiction Meets Top News Headlines: Wilkerson’s “Hasta Mañana” and Talk Show “The View” Grapple with Migration Challenges
Hasta Mañana and The View Grapple with Migration Challenges During a recent segment of an episode aired on the American talk show The View (ABC, November 11, 2024), the panel’s insightful discussion centered on migration management themes. The group’s dialogue considered proposed mass removal costs as well as securing the U.S. border with humane border management policies and practices. In so doing, their discussion also juxtaposed today’s top news headlines with themes from Carolyn...
Migration Tales Fiction and Facts: Carolyn Wilkerson’s “Hasta Mañana” and Caitlin Dickerson’s “Seventy Miles in Hell”
Fiction and Facts: Migration Tales from Wilkerson and Dickerson Author Carolyn Wilkerson’s adult fiction mystery Hasta Mañana and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Caitlin Dickerson’s investigative report Seventy Miles in Hell (August 6, 2024, The Atlantic), base their migration tales on the human experiences and struggles rising out of migration challenges however their stories originate from distinct perspectives. Hasta Mañana is a fictional adult mystery created out of many distinct real...
WORDS MATTER
Words Matter, and in each language - in the different words - there are traces of stories, families; lives lived, loved, and lost. Similar words in different languages may have slightly different connotations. But they can be traced back to the epistemic origin of the word and show in its evolution the struggles of the people, the comingling of the blood lines, the co-habitation of the cultures. Thus, the gesticulation, diction, and articulation display empirical evidence of the change in...
Revealing Related Themes: Hasta Mañana and CNN Reporting
The struggle of immigration. The search for a better life. The emotional, physical and legal challenges. CNN well captures these central and driving themes in its 26 June 2024 report: Migrant apprehensions have dropped over 40% since Biden announced asylum restrictions, DHS says . As the CNN report then described, the Department of Homeland Security said President Biden’s executive action barring asylum at the US southern border had been established about three weeks prior to its reporting....