Nearly every day since April, 14 New Yorkers from diverse backgrounds speaking 10 different Himalayan and Indigenous Latin American languages have been recording diaries of their experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic at the epicenter of the epicenter: NYC’s multilingual immigrant neighborhoods. Now hundreds of these recordings are freely available via Soundcloud, with English summaries for… Continue reading Diaries from the Epicenter: Immigrant New Yorkers Talk About COVID-19
Month: May 2020
The Impact of COVID-19 on New York City’s Multilingual Immigrant Communities
Since late March, New York City has been the global epicenter of the COVID-19/coronavirus pandemic, with more than 170,000 confirmed cases and over 18,000 confirmed deaths as of early May. Nearly every New Yorker has been affected, but the effects have not been evenly distributed. While there is emerging evidence in city data of serious… Continue reading The Impact of COVID-19 on New York City’s Multilingual Immigrant Communities
