What If We Put Children First? Migration, Trauma, and Education with Harvard's Dr. Gabrielle Oliveira

What If We Put Children First? Migration, Trauma, and Education with Harvard's Dr. Gabrielle Oliveira

March 5, 2026 · 48 min · Season 9 · Episode 3

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The episode explores the challenges faced by families migrating to the U.S. and the impact on children, featuring insights from Dr. Gabrielle Oliveira.

What really drives families to make the dangerous journey to the United States? And what happens to them — especially their children — after surviving detention and family separation at the border? In this episode, I speak with Dr. Gabrielle Oliveira, Jorge Paulo Lemann Associate Professor of Education and Brazil Studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Gabrielle's new book, Now We Are Here: Family Migration, Children's Education, and Dreams for a Better Life, documents the lives ...

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