The New Americans
Documentary series (7x49 min.)

Episode 1: In the squalor of a refugee camp in Benin, West Africa we meet Israel widor, a member of a minority in Nigeria that has suffered from discrimination and violence. For three years they have been waiting for their chance to go to the United States and start a new life.
Dominicans Ricardo Rodriguez and Jose Garcia dream of playing Major league Baseball. We follow them from a basenball camp in the Dominican Republic through the decision of who will be selected for "spring training" in the United States. For Jose and Ricardo, success could some day mean million dollar contracts and better lives for their struggling families back home.
Naima is a beautiful Palestinian woman who falls in love with Hatem, a first-generation Palestinian-American. With one brother dead and another imprisoned during the first Intifada, Naima is determined to leave the West Bank for America.

Episode 2: Nigerian refugee Israel and his family are eventually resettled in Chicago. Though highly educated, he and his wife Ngozi's first year in America is amrked by the stress of financial and health woes, leavened only by Israel's unshakable optimism.
Before Naima can emigrate from the West Bank to America, she must overcome the difficult Visa process, unexpexted failure in school, and hardest of all - her own sadness at leaving familiy and the only life she has known.
Pitcher Ricardo Rodriguez is put on the fast track to baseball success when the young Dominican is among the first selected to go to the Dodger's Spring training in Florida. Jose Garcia's path is more fraught with potential failure as he tries to learn a new position.

Episode 3: Within weeks of her arrival in America Naima marries Hatem and they begin life together as young newlyweds. Yet, with each failed job application, she grows more homesick, while Hatem lands a job that will profoundly change the couple's life.
Israel Nwidor lands a new job but cannot escape from racism at work. Life is no easier for fellow refugee Barine Wiwa-Lawani, the sister of slain Nigerian activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa. Living in Chicago with two teenage daughters, she juggles three part-time jobs and dreams of opening her own African Restaurant.
Dominicans Ricardo and Jose begin their minor league baseball careers with the Dodgers popular Rookie League team in Great Falls Montana. But when a fellow Dominican player is charged with a serious crime, all of the latin players feel the impact.

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