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"content": "\u003cp>Unaccompanied minors fleeing violence in Central America are still arriving to live with family members or guardians in communities across California, while they wait for their court dates to find out if they can stay in this country. In fact, the numbers of children being detained at the U.S.-Mexico border \u003ca href=\"http://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-border-unaccompanied-children/fy-2016\">has more than doubled in October and November\u003c/a> compared with a year ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, Los Angeles County has the largest number of these kids, and Alameda County is next. A steady stream of newcomers in Oakland has now filled all four of the school district's high school newcomer programs to capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her first-period ethnic studies class for newcomers, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ousd.org/castlemont\">Castlemont High School\u003c/a> teacher Carrie Haslanger goes over how to communicate feelings in English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Scared. \u003cem>Repítelo\u003c/em>: scared,\" she says. The class repeats the word. \"Very good. ¿\u003cem>Y cómo se dice poderoso en ingles?\u003c/em> Powerful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/238197385\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the 10 students in this class, eight arrived just last week, from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. For the other two, it's their very first day. Then, halfway through the class, three more students show up. Haslanger receives them with a smile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yes, more students, great! \u003cem>Bienvenidos,\"\u003c/em> she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Close to 500 Central American students seeking refuge enrolled in Oakland schools since the district started tracking them in June 2013. The newcomer program at Castlemont High School was set up just this year, because three other high schools with newcomer programs were full. The district expected 100 new arrivals to enroll at Castlemont throughout the year, but the program was at capacity before winter break. Oakland Unified just announced four new teacher positions for newcomers and is looking at where to enroll new high school students who arrive in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being able to go to school in Oakland is a relief for some students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I stopped going to school for a year in Honduras because the gangs would wait outside and kidnap people,\" says one teenage girl, in Spanish, at her attorney's office at \u003ca href=\"http://centrolegal.org/\">Centro Legal de la Raza\u003c/a>. Her attorney asked not to disclose her name or school because her asylum case is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she was afraid in Honduras because girls with light-brown hair were being targeted by gangs. \"They say only the women in the gangs can have light hair,\" she says, \"so they rape girls and kill them. They put rocks in their intimate parts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teachers are having to learn fast how to teach kids English and subject content at the same time, and how to support children with extremely high levels of trauma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The reason I teach emotion words in the beginning is, in ethnic studies, we work to make sure all stories are told. And I start by saying the most important story is yours,\" says Carrie Haslanger. \"So giving them the first six words you saw today, happy, sad, angry, powerful, and then expanding the wheel so they're able to say depressed, blessed, optimistic, energetic. And from there we'll go into learning about ethnicity and race and class and gender. But first, that’s too much when you don't know how to say good morning.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10799606\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10799606 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/Haslanger-closeup-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland teacher Carrie Haslanger is works hard to provide emotional and academic support to her newcomer students at Castlemont High School.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/Haslanger-closeup-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/Haslanger-closeup-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/Haslanger-closeup-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/Haslanger-closeup-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/Haslanger-closeup.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/Haslanger-closeup-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/Haslanger-closeup-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland teacher Carrie Haslanger works hard to provide emotional and academic support to her newcomer students at Castlemont High School. \u003ccite>(Zaidee Stavely/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Haslanger coordinates the newcomer program at Castlemont. Most of her students start in ninth grade, even if they are 16 or 17 when they arrive, since they don’t usually have credits they can transfer to high school. They take P.E. and music with other students, and they take five classes as a cohort. Teachers have to adapt these classes so they can teach English at the same time as algebra, science and computers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's just one of the challenges teachers face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These students are fleeing a level of violence that I don’t know we can really comprehend in this country,\" says Haslanger. \"Two students I’m working with right now, one of them has seen massacres [of people] by the government ... in front of his eyes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That kind of trauma affects kids’ ability to learn and the way they react in the classroom. Haslanger says teachers get an hour and a half of training on how to teach English learners once a month, and they receive some training in teaching children who have experienced trauma, but she says it's not enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When a teacher raises their voice at a young person and yells at them, that kid who has experienced trauma, sometimes they won't react, but the ones I’m working with are becoming defiant and angry and acting out,\" she says. Haslanger wants to see more training for teachers and translators for newcomers, as well as more after-school programs and mental health therapists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the height of the national media's attention to the children fleeing violence in Central America, Oakland Unified used private funds to hire a coordinator, Ariana Flores, to refer students to legal help and coordinate mental health services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost every day, Flores can be found helping enroll students in school, handing out backpacks and Spanish-English dictionaries. Flores has referred hundreds of kids to free legal help, partially paid for by the city of Oakland, and she works hard to get them mental health services through community organizations that partner with the district. Alameda County set aside money for school-based mental health providers to bill for these services, since these students don't have health insurance. 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But first, that’s too much when you don't know how to say good morning.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10799606\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10799606 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/Haslanger-closeup-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Oakland teacher Carrie Haslanger is works hard to provide emotional and academic support to her newcomer students at Castlemont High School.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/Haslanger-closeup-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/Haslanger-closeup-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/Haslanger-closeup-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/Haslanger-closeup-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/Haslanger-closeup.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/Haslanger-closeup-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/Haslanger-closeup-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland teacher Carrie Haslanger works hard to provide emotional and academic support to her newcomer students at Castlemont High School. \u003ccite>(Zaidee Stavely/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Haslanger coordinates the newcomer program at Castlemont. Most of her students start in ninth grade, even if they are 16 or 17 when they arrive, since they don’t usually have credits they can transfer to high school. They take P.E. and music with other students, and they take five classes as a cohort. Teachers have to adapt these classes so they can teach English at the same time as algebra, science and computers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's just one of the challenges teachers face.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These students are fleeing a level of violence that I don’t know we can really comprehend in this country,\" says Haslanger. \"Two students I’m working with right now, one of them has seen massacres [of people] by the government ... in front of his eyes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That kind of trauma affects kids’ ability to learn and the way they react in the classroom. 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"content": "\u003cp>Oscar Ramos teaches third grade at Sherwood Elementary School in Salinas. Many of his students are immigrants, children of migrant farmers who work long hours in the field, from sunup to sundown. They live in cramped apartments in neighborhoods plagued by gang violence. Many of them have never been to the beach, even though it’s only 20 minutes away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramos can relate. His parents were also migrant workers who brought him to the United States at a young age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the face of his students’ struggles, Ramos gives them access to a world that often seems beyond their reach. He is proof that education can improve their lives and help secure their families’ futures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10798492\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10798492 size-large\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/jorgeandmrramos-1440x810.jpg\" alt=\"Third grade teacher Oscar Ramos works with his former student Jose Ansaldo. (Courtesy ITVS) \" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/jorgeandmrramos-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/jorgeandmrramos-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/jorgeandmrramos-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/jorgeandmrramos-768x432.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/jorgeandmrramos.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/jorgeandmrramos-1180x664.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/jorgeandmrramos-960x540.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Third-grade teacher Oscar Ramos works with his former student Jose Ansaldo. (Courtesy ITVS) \u003ccite>(Courtesy ITVS)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But for one of his best students, Ramos' guidance and dedication might not be enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jose Ansaldo is full of energy, smarts and potential. He excels in math despite having moved between seven different schools in three years before ending up in Ramos’ class at Sherwood Elementary several years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jose is also undocumented. He was born in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many migrant children, as Jose grows older he is beginning to understand the situation he faces — and the opportunities that may be lost to him because of his undocumented status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new documentary, \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/east-of-salinas/\" target=\"_blank\">\"East of Salinas,\"\u003c/a> follows Jose and his teacher Mr. Ramos over three years, demonstrating the cruelty of circumstance that touches on the futures of millions of undocumented kids in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/east-of-salinas/.\" target=\"_blank\">\"East of Salinas,\"\u003c/a> directed by Laura Pacheco and Jackie Mow, airs nationally on PBS' Independent Lens on Monday, Dec. 28, at 10 p.m., and locally on KQED on Monday, Jan. 18, at 10 p.m. The above video is a short version of the full-length documentary.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more information about the film visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/east-of-salinas/\" target=\"_blank\">Independent Lens.\u003c/a> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>On a recent Sunday morning inside Mar Yosip Assyrian Church of the East in San Jose, sunbeams slant through clouds of incense smoke onto the face of the Rev. Lawrance Namato as he leads his congregation in a liturgy nearly 2,000 years old. The suited men and veiled women in the pews — nearly all of them Assyrian — join in the ancient chants as they pray for peace and resolution to a crisis both historic and modern: the persecution of their brothers and sisters in the Middle East.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indigenous to northern Iraq, Assyrians have lived in the region for more than 6,000 years. They converted as a people to Christianity in the first century A.D. and are one of the oldest continuous Christian communities in the world. But in the past century, violence and religious persecution have escalated, forcing most of them to seek safety in other countries. Some 10,000 now reside in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the rise of the self-described Islamic State, they now risk vanishing from their homeland altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is that “the Christians have nowhere to go,” said Namato, whose family fled Kirkuk, Iraq, when he was 14 as former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein rose to power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2LUkoEgF8A\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the parishioners at Mar Yosip are from Iraq or Iran, although a few are from Syria and other countries in the Middle East. Many in the community still have family in the Middle East: some who have remained by choice, others who are caught in the limbo of refugee camps as they await a chance at a new life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the rise of the Islamic State, Assyrians in the Bay Area have tried multiple avenues to help their relatives in the region. Some have petitioned the State Department to more forcefully defend Christians in the Middle East. Others are urging the United States Agency for International Development to directly fund Assyrian humanitarian aid groups. And others are working to get families approved for asylum in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'Before the war the Assyrians [in Syria] had a good life and they were safe. Now, they are targeted by everybody.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But many in the community feel disappointed so far in the U.S. response. And there is a deep worry that this ancient group could disappear completely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We kind of feel like our life is paralyzed,” said Rochelle Yousefian, president of the Assyrian American Association of San Jose. “The government that we are so proud of living in, in the country of peace, is not taking any actions. It’s not even open to listen to these atrocities. It makes us feel hopeless; it makes us unproductive because we don’t know what to do, we don’t know how to help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The history of Assyrian Christians in the Middle East has been punctuated by periods of violent persecution. In 1915, the year Assyrians call the Seyfo — “the year of the sword” — the Ottoman Empire slaughtered as many as 300,000 Assyrians. In 2003, it was estimated that 30,000 Assyrian Christians still lived in the city of Mosul in northern Iraq. But after the Islamic State captured the city in the summer of 2014, none remain — having been either killed or forced to flee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10796850\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10796850\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy.jpg\" alt=\"The Assyrian liturgy -- which has been used by the Assyrian Church of the East for nearly 2,000 years -- is printed in English and the Assyrian language.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy-1440x1920.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Assyrian liturgy -- which has been used by the Assyrian Church of the East for nearly 2,000 years -- is printed in English and the Assyrian language. \u003ccite>(Kaitlyn Landgraf/Peninsula Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is a genocide,” said Albert Nissan, a Mar Yosip parishioner who emigrated from Baghdad in 1975 and has family members still living there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people who emptied Mosul of its Christians are the same people who bombed Paris,” he added, referring to the November attacks by Islamic extremists that killed 130 people and injured hundreds more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No Safety in Syria\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, many Assyrians sought refuge in Syria, which was comparably peaceful at the time. But they were held in U.N. refugee camps “for years,” said Namato, and when civil war broke out in Syria five years ago, some were trapped again by the violence they had hoped to escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conditions for Assyrians in Syrian refugee camps are “horrible,” said Poline Maiel, a parishioner of Mar Yosip. Girls risk being kidnapped and Christians are frequently targets of violence, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever we think about [Syrian President Bashar al-] Assad, before the war the Assyrians [in Syria] had a good life and they were safe. Now, they are targeted by everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, the Islamic State captured around 230 Assyrian Christians in Syria and held them for a ransom of around $14 million. That month, Assyrian bishops in the United States called on Secretary of State John Kerry to take “concrete steps to help the remaining Assyrian Christians in the region to protect themselves.” The Islamic State released some of the sick and elderly prisoners, but continues to hold around 150 Assyrian Christian hostages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, three of the hostages were executed. One of the victims was the first cousin of a parishioner at Mar Yosip, and other family members are still being held for ransom by the Islamic State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asylum at Last\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2014, Shamiran left her village outside Mosul with her three teenage children on temporary visitor visas to attend a family wedding and visit her parents in the Bay Area, who are parishioners at Mar Yosip. But when ISIS overtook Mosul that summer, her husband, who had remained in Iraq, told her not to return because of the security risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unable to return to Iraq, “Shamiran” — who didn’t want her real name used because of security concerns — and her children applied for asylum in the United States. In June, nearly a year after their arrival, they were granted asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10796862\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10796862 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion.jpg\" alt=\"Iraqi Assyrian Christians attend a ceremony at Saint Youhanna church in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq on September 18, 2015.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1238\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion-400x258.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion-800x516.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion-768x495.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion-1440x929.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion-1180x761.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion-960x619.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iraqi Assyrian Christians attend a ceremony at Saint Youhanna church in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on Sept. 18, 2015. \u003ccite>(SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In broken English, Shamiran described the experience of Christians in Mosul who were forced to flee the city and have their houses marked as being inhabited by Christians. “There were many Christian families in Mosul,” she said. “They left everything in Mosul and they went. [ISIS] put Arabic letter “Nun” [on our houses]. It means Christian — “Nazarene.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shamiran’s husband’s request for asylum has also been approved, but he’s still waiting for the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad to certify his identity and complete a background check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having been in the United States for a year and a half now, Shamiran has found a job working at a grocery store, and her three children are earning A’s in Bay Area high schools. But she yearns for the day when she can be reunited with her husband. “My husband is safe now, thank God. I need for him to come here to live in peace with us to be a family again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Waiting for Visas\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the few Assyrian Christians left in the Middle East, the threat of attacks by the Islamic State makes each day more perilous. But migrating to the West has become increasingly difficult, as waves of refugees from the Middle East and North Africa pour into Europe. In the United States, fears of terrorism have prompted debates about how many — if any — refugees the United States should admit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Namato agrees that refugees to the United States should be screened carefully to prevent terrorists from being admitted to the country. “But they have to differentiate between who’s doing the killing and who’s being persecuted,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10796864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10796864\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo.jpg\" alt=\"California Rep. Anna Eshoo, the only Assyrian member of Congress.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1264\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo-400x263.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo-800x527.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo-768x506.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo-1440x948.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo-1180x777.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo-960x632.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Rep. Anna Eshoo, the only Assyrian member of Congress. \u003ccite>(Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rep. Anna Eshoo, the only Assyrian member of Congress, serves California’s 18th Congressional District, covering parts of San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties. Eshoo, a Democrat whose parents are Assyrian Christians who fled persecution in the Middle East, voted in November against a House Republican bill to pause the admittance of Syrian refugees into the United States. Despite its passage by a wide majority that included many Democratic votes, Eshoo voted against the measure because it amounted to a “bureaucratic blockade for all refugee applicants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, Eshoo, who is the co-chair of the Religious Minorities in the Middle East Caucus, called on President Barack Obama to do more to help Middle Eastern religious minorities like Assyrians by prioritizing additional security support for vulnerable populations, especially the ancient Christian community. 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Now, they are targeted by everybody.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But many in the community feel disappointed so far in the U.S. response. And there is a deep worry that this ancient group could disappear completely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We kind of feel like our life is paralyzed,” said Rochelle Yousefian, president of the Assyrian American Association of San Jose. “The government that we are so proud of living in, in the country of peace, is not taking any actions. It’s not even open to listen to these atrocities. It makes us feel hopeless; it makes us unproductive because we don’t know what to do, we don’t know how to help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The history of Assyrian Christians in the Middle East has been punctuated by periods of violent persecution. In 1915, the year Assyrians call the Seyfo — “the year of the sword” — the Ottoman Empire slaughtered as many as 300,000 Assyrians. In 2003, it was estimated that 30,000 Assyrian Christians still lived in the city of Mosul in northern Iraq. But after the Islamic State captured the city in the summer of 2014, none remain — having been either killed or forced to flee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10796850\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10796850\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy.jpg\" alt=\"The Assyrian liturgy -- which has been used by the Assyrian Church of the East for nearly 2,000 years -- is printed in English and the Assyrian language.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy-400x533.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy-1440x1920.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyrianLiturgy-960x1280.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Assyrian liturgy -- which has been used by the Assyrian Church of the East for nearly 2,000 years -- is printed in English and the Assyrian language. \u003ccite>(Kaitlyn Landgraf/Peninsula Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is a genocide,” said Albert Nissan, a Mar Yosip parishioner who emigrated from Baghdad in 1975 and has family members still living there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people who emptied Mosul of its Christians are the same people who bombed Paris,” he added, referring to the November attacks by Islamic extremists that killed 130 people and injured hundreds more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No Safety in Syria\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, many Assyrians sought refuge in Syria, which was comparably peaceful at the time. But they were held in U.N. refugee camps “for years,” said Namato, and when civil war broke out in Syria five years ago, some were trapped again by the violence they had hoped to escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conditions for Assyrians in Syrian refugee camps are “horrible,” said Poline Maiel, a parishioner of Mar Yosip. Girls risk being kidnapped and Christians are frequently targets of violence, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever we think about [Syrian President Bashar al-] Assad, before the war the Assyrians [in Syria] had a good life and they were safe. Now, they are targeted by everybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, the Islamic State captured around 230 Assyrian Christians in Syria and held them for a ransom of around $14 million. That month, Assyrian bishops in the United States called on Secretary of State John Kerry to take “concrete steps to help the remaining Assyrian Christians in the region to protect themselves.” The Islamic State released some of the sick and elderly prisoners, but continues to hold around 150 Assyrian Christian hostages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October, three of the hostages were executed. One of the victims was the first cousin of a parishioner at Mar Yosip, and other family members are still being held for ransom by the Islamic State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asylum at Last\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2014, Shamiran left her village outside Mosul with her three teenage children on temporary visitor visas to attend a family wedding and visit her parents in the Bay Area, who are parishioners at Mar Yosip. But when ISIS overtook Mosul that summer, her husband, who had remained in Iraq, told her not to return because of the security risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unable to return to Iraq, “Shamiran” — who didn’t want her real name used because of security concerns — and her children applied for asylum in the United States. In June, nearly a year after their arrival, they were granted asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10796862\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10796862 size-full\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion.jpg\" alt=\"Iraqi Assyrian Christians attend a ceremony at Saint Youhanna church in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq on September 18, 2015.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1238\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion-400x258.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion-800x516.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion-768x495.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion-1440x929.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion-1180x761.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AssyriansKurdishRegion-960x619.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iraqi Assyrian Christians attend a ceremony at Saint Youhanna church in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, on Sept. 18, 2015. \u003ccite>(SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In broken English, Shamiran described the experience of Christians in Mosul who were forced to flee the city and have their houses marked as being inhabited by Christians. “There were many Christian families in Mosul,” she said. “They left everything in Mosul and they went. [ISIS] put Arabic letter “Nun” [on our houses]. It means Christian — “Nazarene.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shamiran’s husband’s request for asylum has also been approved, but he’s still waiting for the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad to certify his identity and complete a background check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having been in the United States for a year and a half now, Shamiran has found a job working at a grocery store, and her three children are earning A’s in Bay Area high schools. But she yearns for the day when she can be reunited with her husband. “My husband is safe now, thank God. I need for him to come here to live in peace with us to be a family again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Waiting for Visas\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the few Assyrian Christians left in the Middle East, the threat of attacks by the Islamic State makes each day more perilous. But migrating to the West has become increasingly difficult, as waves of refugees from the Middle East and North Africa pour into Europe. In the United States, fears of terrorism have prompted debates about how many — if any — refugees the United States should admit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Namato agrees that refugees to the United States should be screened carefully to prevent terrorists from being admitted to the country. “But they have to differentiate between who’s doing the killing and who’s being persecuted,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10796864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10796864\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo.jpg\" alt=\"California Rep. Anna Eshoo, the only Assyrian member of Congress.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1264\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo-400x263.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo-800x527.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo-768x506.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo-1440x948.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo-1180x777.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/12/AnnaEshoo-960x632.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Rep. Anna Eshoo, the only Assyrian member of Congress. \u003ccite>(Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rep. Anna Eshoo, the only Assyrian member of Congress, serves California’s 18th Congressional District, covering parts of San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties. Eshoo, a Democrat whose parents are Assyrian Christians who fled persecution in the Middle East, voted in November against a House Republican bill to pause the admittance of Syrian refugees into the United States. Despite its passage by a wide majority that included many Democratic votes, Eshoo voted against the measure because it amounted to a “bureaucratic blockade for all refugee applicants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, Eshoo, who is the co-chair of the Religious Minorities in the Middle East Caucus, called on President Barack Obama to do more to help Middle Eastern religious minorities like Assyrians by prioritizing additional security support for vulnerable populations, especially the ancient Christian community. 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She says with the drought, this year has been the hardest to make ends in the fields since she came to the U.S. a dozen years ago.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10727448\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17133_Dona-Maura-2.JPG-qut1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17133_Dona-Maura-2.JPG-qut1-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17133_Dona-Maura-2.JPG-qut1-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17133_Dona-Maura-2.JPG-qut1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17133_Dona-Maura-2.JPG-qut1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17133_Dona-Maura-2.JPG-qut1-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maura Lukas is Mixteca, part of an indigenous group from Oaxaca, in southern Mexico. She says with the drought, this year has been the hardest to make ends in the fields since she came to the U.S. a dozen years ago. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Many people do not realize, but there is a pecking order, a hierarchy, in the labor force in agriculture,” says Professor \u003ca href=\"http://www.labor.ucla.edu/gaspar-rivera-salgado/\">Gaspar Rivera-Salgado\u003c/a>. He studies Mexican migration at the UCLA Labor Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only hierarchy in terms of when you migrated,\" he explains, \"but also this ethnic hierarchy, because these indigenous migrants that come from Mexico also tend to be very discriminated against, not only in Mexico, but also here in the United States.\u003cstrong>”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re less likely to get more stable jobs as tractor drivers or supervisors. Those jobs usually go to mestizos, Mexicans who have mixed Spanish and indigenous heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera-Salgado says this new grass-roots survey of more than 350 farmworkers -- a collaboration between several nonprofit organizations in Fresno and Madera County, including CBDIO, \u003ca href=\"http://centralcallegal.org\" target=\"_blank\">Central California Legal Services\u003c/a> and the\u003ca href=\"http://www.crlaf.org/\" target=\"_blank\"> CRLA Foundation\u003c/a> -- is taking an important pulse of the drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve been really picking up a lot of details about how tough it has been for families to make ends meet,\" says Rivera-Salgado. \"A lot of these families, they’re really at a crossroads.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10727449\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17136_Dona-Maura-w-garden-3.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10727449\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17136_Dona-Maura-w-garden-3.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Maura Lukas and her husband have only been able to pay the landlord half the rent for months, and are struggling to make meals stretch to feed her family.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17136_Dona-Maura-w-garden-3.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17136_Dona-Maura-w-garden-3.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17136_Dona-Maura-w-garden-3.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17136_Dona-Maura-w-garden-3.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17136_Dona-Maura-w-garden-3.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17136_Dona-Maura-w-garden-3.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maura Lukas and her husband have only been able to pay the landlord half the rent for months, and are struggling to make meals stretch to feed her family. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In fact, 92 percent of the indigenous farmworkers surveyed in this project say they’ve had less work or no work because of the drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Maura Lukas, a Mixteca woman who lives in a cramped two-bedroom apartment with her husband and four children near downtown Fresno. She’s chopping some onions she got at a food bank on a table set up in a patch of dirt in front of her apartment, next to where she hangs laundry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"5GjcnjOHzCAbIoB2R0KlLWzNmzzC9R2i\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our rent is $600, and the truth is, we could only pay half, $300,” she tells me. “Our electricity was $119. I have to pay that in payments, too. There just isn’t money for everything. We don’t have enough to eat. That’s what we really need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lukas says this year has been the hardest since they came to the U.S. from Oaxaca. They’ve scrambled to get enough hours picking grapes, raisins and cherries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she’s trying to make meals stretch as best she can, especially as winter approaches. Normally, that’s the time when farmworkers try to live off the savings they’ve scraped together from the harvest season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this year, she says, there aren’t any savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zenaida Ventura says the workers she’s surveyed who \u003cem>do\u003c/em> have jobs say working conditions have gotten worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10727450\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17137_Dona-Mauras-apartment-bldg-1.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10727450\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17137_Dona-Mauras-apartment-bldg-1.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Farmworker Maura Lukas lives in a cramped two-bedroom apartment with her husband and four children near downtown Fresno.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17137_Dona-Mauras-apartment-bldg-1.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17137_Dona-Mauras-apartment-bldg-1.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17137_Dona-Mauras-apartment-bldg-1.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17137_Dona-Mauras-apartment-bldg-1.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17137_Dona-Mauras-apartment-bldg-1.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17137_Dona-Mauras-apartment-bldg-1.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmworker Maura Lukas lives in a cramped two-bedroom apartment with her husband and four children near downtown Fresno. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Because of the lack of jobs, you have to do whatever it takes to stay there, no matter if they don’t give you shade or water or your rights. Your working rights. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ventura isn’t surprised that 81 percent of those surveyed have no knowledge of any programs to help farmworkers affected by the drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if they knew about them, Ventura says, they’re not necessarily eligible. Some \u003ca href=\"http://fresnocitycollege.edu/index.aspx?page=3158\">drought-related job retraining programs \u003c/a>for farmworkers require a Social Security number, GED or high school diploma. Farmworkers can’t get unemployment benefits if they’re undocumented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The documented farmworkers, they can go and apply for unemployment,” says Ventura, “or they can look for another job, if there’s an opening for a restaurant to do dishes. But for the undocumented farmworker, there’s nothing. Nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit groups conducting the surveys plan to present their results at a legislative briefing in Sacramento next week.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>I first met Zenaida Ventura 11 years ago, when she was just a teenager. She was wielding giant clippers, pruning gnarled grapevines in a field south of Fresno one cold morning. She was working alongside her father, Rufino, and I showed up with my microphone to ask them how they protected themselves from pesticides.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>Rufino Ventura on protecting farmworkers from pesticide, 2004\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='20'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/229813009&visual=true&color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/229813009'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The Venturas were recent immigrants then, who spoke Mixteco, an indigenous language from Oaxaca. The term “indigenous” means their language and culture predate the Spanish conquest of Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ran into Zenaida again a few weeks ago. Now she’s 29 and trilingual -- she speaks Spanish, Mixteco and English. She has become a community leader, and is helping to conduct a unique survey of other \u003ca href=\"http://www.indigenousfarmworkers.org/index.shtml\">indigenous farmworkers\u003c/a> through the \u003ca href=\"http://centrobinacional.org/en/about-us/\">Binational Center for the Development of Oaxacan Indigenous Communities\u003c/a> (CBDIO), a nonprofit that works in both Mexico and the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s standing at a booth at a farmers market in Madera County, home to one of the highest concentrations of Mexican indigenous immigrants in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/229804366&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/229804366'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re doing surveys, especially to the farmworkers that are indigenous from Oaxaca, or Guerrero, Pueblo,” she explains. “Have they worked in the fields? Have they been affected because of the drought?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A woman pushing her kids in a stroller approaches Ventura’s booth and agrees to answer the survey questions. She says her husband went to Washington state this year for the first time to pick blueberries. It was just too hard to piece together enough hours of work in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have tried to quantify the economic impact of the drought on workers. One recent \u003ca href=\"https://watershed.ucdavis.edu/files/biblio/Final_Drought%20Report_08182015_Full_Report_WithAppendices.pdf\">UC Davis forecast\u003c/a>, for example, estimates more than 10,000 California farmworkers will have lost their jobs this year due to farms having less water. What those studies don’t show is that indigenous farmworkers are more likely to be undocumented and among the first to lose their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10727448\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17133_Dona-Maura-2.JPG-qut1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Maura Lukas is Mixteca, part of an indigenous group from Oaxaca, in southern Mexico. She says with the drought, this year has been the hardest to make ends in the fields since she came to the U.S. a dozen years ago.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10727448\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17133_Dona-Maura-2.JPG-qut1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17133_Dona-Maura-2.JPG-qut1-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17133_Dona-Maura-2.JPG-qut1-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17133_Dona-Maura-2.JPG-qut1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17133_Dona-Maura-2.JPG-qut1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17133_Dona-Maura-2.JPG-qut1-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maura Lukas is Mixteca, part of an indigenous group from Oaxaca, in southern Mexico. She says with the drought, this year has been the hardest to make ends in the fields since she came to the U.S. a dozen years ago. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Many people do not realize, but there is a pecking order, a hierarchy, in the labor force in agriculture,” says Professor \u003ca href=\"http://www.labor.ucla.edu/gaspar-rivera-salgado/\">Gaspar Rivera-Salgado\u003c/a>. He studies Mexican migration at the UCLA Labor Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only hierarchy in terms of when you migrated,\" he explains, \"but also this ethnic hierarchy, because these indigenous migrants that come from Mexico also tend to be very discriminated against, not only in Mexico, but also here in the United States.\u003cstrong>”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re less likely to get more stable jobs as tractor drivers or supervisors. Those jobs usually go to mestizos, Mexicans who have mixed Spanish and indigenous heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera-Salgado says this new grass-roots survey of more than 350 farmworkers -- a collaboration between several nonprofit organizations in Fresno and Madera County, including CBDIO, \u003ca href=\"http://centralcallegal.org\" target=\"_blank\">Central California Legal Services\u003c/a> and the\u003ca href=\"http://www.crlaf.org/\" target=\"_blank\"> CRLA Foundation\u003c/a> -- is taking an important pulse of the drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve been really picking up a lot of details about how tough it has been for families to make ends meet,\" says Rivera-Salgado. \"A lot of these families, they’re really at a crossroads.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10727449\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17136_Dona-Maura-w-garden-3.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10727449\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17136_Dona-Maura-w-garden-3.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Maura Lukas and her husband have only been able to pay the landlord half the rent for months, and are struggling to make meals stretch to feed her family.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17136_Dona-Maura-w-garden-3.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17136_Dona-Maura-w-garden-3.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17136_Dona-Maura-w-garden-3.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17136_Dona-Maura-w-garden-3.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17136_Dona-Maura-w-garden-3.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17136_Dona-Maura-w-garden-3.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maura Lukas and her husband have only been able to pay the landlord half the rent for months, and are struggling to make meals stretch to feed her family. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In fact, 92 percent of the indigenous farmworkers surveyed in this project say they’ve had less work or no work because of the drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Maura Lukas, a Mixteca woman who lives in a cramped two-bedroom apartment with her husband and four children near downtown Fresno. She’s chopping some onions she got at a food bank on a table set up in a patch of dirt in front of her apartment, next to where she hangs laundry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our rent is $600, and the truth is, we could only pay half, $300,” she tells me. “Our electricity was $119. I have to pay that in payments, too. There just isn’t money for everything. We don’t have enough to eat. That’s what we really need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lukas says this year has been the hardest since they came to the U.S. from Oaxaca. They’ve scrambled to get enough hours picking grapes, raisins and cherries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she’s trying to make meals stretch as best she can, especially as winter approaches. Normally, that’s the time when farmworkers try to live off the savings they’ve scraped together from the harvest season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this year, she says, there aren’t any savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zenaida Ventura says the workers she’s surveyed who \u003cem>do\u003c/em> have jobs say working conditions have gotten worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10727450\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17137_Dona-Mauras-apartment-bldg-1.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10727450\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17137_Dona-Mauras-apartment-bldg-1.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Farmworker Maura Lukas lives in a cramped two-bedroom apartment with her husband and four children near downtown Fresno.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17137_Dona-Mauras-apartment-bldg-1.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17137_Dona-Mauras-apartment-bldg-1.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17137_Dona-Mauras-apartment-bldg-1.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17137_Dona-Mauras-apartment-bldg-1.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17137_Dona-Mauras-apartment-bldg-1.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17137_Dona-Mauras-apartment-bldg-1.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmworker Maura Lukas lives in a cramped two-bedroom apartment with her husband and four children near downtown Fresno. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Because of the lack of jobs, you have to do whatever it takes to stay there, no matter if they don’t give you shade or water or your rights. 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"content": "\u003cp>In India, middle-class couples used to find each other and marry through family connections, a marriage broker or by way of a newspaper ad. Today, they — and their counterparts around the world — are just as likely to use any one of an explosion of matrimonial websites, some with apps for your smartphone. Two of the largest sites are \u003ca href=\"http://www.shaadi.com/\">\u003cu>Shaadi.com\u003c/u>\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.bharatmatrimony.com/\">\u003cu>Bharatmatrimony.com\u003c/u>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10689918\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16723_BharatMatrimony.com_.PNG-qut1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10689918\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16723_BharatMatrimony.com_.PNG-qut1-400x710.jpg\" alt=\"Screen shot from the iPhone app.\" width=\"200\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16723_BharatMatrimony.com_.PNG-qut1-400x710.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16723_BharatMatrimony.com_.PNG-qut1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screen shot from the iPhone app. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of BharatMatrimony)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A growing number of the profiles on these sites are written by the hopeful wedding seekers themselves, but those with a more traditional mindset will allow their parents to write them. That was the case for Gomathi Ramakrishnan and her husband, Prashanth Vishnumangalam Narayanan:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Gomathi: She’s intelligent…pursing her Master’s in Canada…she’s homely and traditional…plays Badminton…she’s cute. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Prashanth: He’s an Iyer Brahmin…he doesn’t eat meat…he doesn’t drink. He’s a good boy. He’s done his bachelor’s, he’s done his master’s, and he’s based out of California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gomathi\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About three years ago, Gomathi was 22 years old and working to complete a master’s degree in neuroscience at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. One day her father called from her hometown of Chennai in southern India. “We’re going to put up a profile for you on Bharatmatrimony.com,” he said matter-of-factly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout alignright\">\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2015/09/14/LITDApodcastlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/love-in-the-digital-age/id1037051180?mt=2\">Subscribe in iTunes\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Don’t miss an episode of ‘Love in the Digital Age’\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Gomathi delights in sharing what happened next. “He started entering \u003cem>his\u003c/em> profile information. He typed his name, he typed his age, and he typed all stuff about him.” In retrospect, she figures he probably thought he was registering, as opposed to creating a profile. But the error became apparent when the first bite of interest came from an older woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My dad was like, ‘Why is someone who is 50 years old giving information for my daughter?’ ” Gomathi giggles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A tech-savvy cousin soon came to the rescue — and now Gomathi was on the hot seat. “Within two weeks, he [her father] came back with a list of 15 guys. I was really overwhelmed!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She demurred, but her dad insisted, and then begged her to at least call his favorite: Prashanth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Prashanth\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prashanth Vishnumangalam Narayanan was 27, a Fremont resident and established consultant on supply chain management for PricewaterhouseCoopers in San Jose, when he started getting curious calls from his mother in Chennai.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10694743\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 361px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10694743\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GomathiPrashanthVERT.jpg\" alt=\"Gomathi and Prashanth\" width=\"361\" height=\"554\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gomathi and Prashanth\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She told him women were expressing interest in getting to know him better, which made no sense, until she admitted she’d posted a profile of him online. Soon after, she sent him a list of 25 matches. And she hardly let the matter rest there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had my mom’s sister call me and say, ‘This is the right time to talk.’ Then I had my grandma call me and say, ‘This is the right time to talk.’ Then my dad, then everybody, decided to take turns calling me, and say, ‘This is the right time to talk,’ ” says Prashanth. It was obvious he had to talk to somebody, soon. He had to name at least one candidate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prashanth chose Gomathi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Semi-Arranged Marriage\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though their parents wrote the profiles, picked the candidates and met each other before giving the go-ahead to Gomathi and Prashanth, they call the process that led to their wedding \u003cem>semi-arranged. \u003c/em>That’s because they did get to pick who to talk to, and they got to talk for nine months before settling on each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prashanth explains, “I got introduced to the person I was getting married to through family relations and connections, and they established the connection through a digital website. But then we talked, and we really understood each other, and we got married. I had my freedom, and she had her freedom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, even with the freedom to choose over time, they still felt pressure to come to a decision eventually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”SkD29tNEiyVCEFchT7DTtN443eU0BTSA”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Had Gomathi and Prashanth not liked each other, they would have worked through match No. 2, No. 3 — and so on — until they agreed to somebody their parents found suitable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomathi says the two sets of parents got along really well. “Based on their hard work, they were able to come up in life,” she says. “That was something, that both of them have mutual respect for each other. That was something that I also wanted in the person that I was going to marry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came the first phone call. “I remember Gomathi being the one who asked a lot more questions than me asking her,” says Prashanth, laughing. “She was like, ‘Who’s your favorite actress? Who’s your favorite actor? What movies do you like?’ I found her to be very full of energy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple began phoning, texting and talking on FaceTime regularly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a few months, Prashanth and Gomathi decided to meet in Canada. The gravity of it all hit Prashanth as he went through the airport in Edmonton. When the visa officer asked him the purpose of his visit, he said he was going to see “a friend.” A friend he had never met, perhaps his future wife. Prashanth had seen Gomathi only virtually, and he scanned the airport for her. “She seemed small. And I was like, “I’ve seen her before.’ Then I realized: That’s Gomathi!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10689853\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10689853 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Gomathi and Prashanth at home in Fremont, California\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Gomathi-Prashanth-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gomathi and Prashanth at home in Fremont, California \u003ccite>(Polly Stryker/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gomathi remembers, “It felt really odd, because you have spoken to this person over the phone, but you haven’t met the other person.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They spent a long weekend getting to know each other: going out to eat, taking walks, watching the movie “Brave.” When Gomathi cried during the film, Prashanth felt touched by her empathy with the characters. But by the time he left Canada, Gomathi had not made a decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt kind of sad,” Prashanth says. “I thought, initially, I wasn’t emotionally invested, but I learned that I’d been \u003cem>heavily\u003c/em> emotionally invested.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need to understand the person really well before getting married,” Gomathi says, “because it’s a one-time thing, and you just don’t want to screw it up. You just don’t want to make a decision until you know, ‘Yes, this is it!’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prashanth’s mother urged him to talk to other matches from Bharat Matrimony. He told her he wasn’t interested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple talked for several more months. Gomathi says her love for Prashanth “deepened more when I realized who Prashanth was and what sort of a guy he was. When I was able to trust him, I really fell for him. I know in my heart that he has high moral standards. That was the point that I came to when I decided, ‘Yes, I should get engaged to Prashanth.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It didn’t hurt that Prashanth plays a mean game of badminton, Gomathi’s favorite sport. The wedding was on. Their families organized a lavish three-day event that took place in Chennai on June 28, 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fremont, Capital of Indian California\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Gomathi and Prashanth live in Fremont, home to a large and growing population of immigrants from India, filled with bustling Indian restaurants and stores. \u003ca href=\"http://politicalscience.ucr.edu/people/faculty/ramakrishnan/\">\u003cu>Karthick Ramakrishnan\u003c/u>\u003c/a> (no relation to Gomathi), professor of Public Policy at UC Riverside, says that Indian immigration more than doubled in Silicon Valley between 2000-2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10689913\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10689913 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut-800x667.jpg\" alt='Indian population size and growth in Alameda and Santa Clara counties from 2000-2014, according to the U.S. Census, as distinct from the \"Other Asian\" category.' width=\"800\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut-800x667.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut-400x333.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut-1440x1200.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut-1180x983.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut-960x800.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indian population size and growth in Alameda and Santa Clara counties from 2000-2014, according to the U.S. Census, as distinct from the “Other Asian” category. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Professor Karthick Ramakrishnan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That shift is reflected in the number of Californians on Indian matrimonial websites. Shaadi’s chief marketing officer, \u003ca href=\"http://brandequity.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/the-people-report/aditya-save-is-shaadi-coms-new-cmo-anupam-mittal-steps-down-as-ceo/48013510\">\u003cu>\u003cspan style=\"color: #0000ff\">Aditya Save\u003c/span>\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, says approximately 200,000 accounts are registered to people living in the state. He adds that the platform is used mostly by South Asians — and not just first-generation immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of our platform is used by people of Indian origin, born in the U.S., the UK and Australia. A larger percentage of that 200,000 (in California) would be people who are American citizens, born in America, but of Indian descent,” he says. For those spouse seekers, Save says it’s more likely they’ll set up their own profiles, as opposed to letting their parents do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Gomathi Ramakrishnan co-manages a neuroscience lab at UC San Francisco. Prashanth still works at PricewaterhouseCoopers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their lives as newlyweds are filled with pleasures they enjoy together: playing badminton, watching TV shows like “\u003ca href=\"http://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones\">\u003cu>Game of Thrones\u003c/u>\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones\">”\u003c/a> and eating ice cream at \u003ca href=\"mailto:https://www.coldstonecreamery.com\">\u003cu>Cold Stone Creamery\u003c/u>\u003c/a>. Gomathi isn’t shy when she explains how she and Prashanth found compatibility first, allowing love to follow after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Love doesn’t happen one sudden day,” she says. “It takes a really long time. I feel like we are still falling in love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u003cem>This podcast features music by Karthick Iyer (“Brovabarama” and “Manavyalakim”).\u003c/em> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About three years ago, Gomathi was 22 years old and working to complete a master’s degree in neuroscience at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. One day her father called from her hometown of Chennai in southern India. “We’re going to put up a profile for you on Bharatmatrimony.com,” he said matter-of-factly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"callout alignright\">\n\u003cp>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http://u.s.kqed.net/2015/09/14/LITDApodcastlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/love-in-the-digital-age/id1037051180?mt=2\">Subscribe in iTunes\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Don’t miss an episode of ‘Love in the Digital Age’\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Gomathi delights in sharing what happened next. “He started entering \u003cem>his\u003c/em> profile information. He typed his name, he typed his age, and he typed all stuff about him.” In retrospect, she figures he probably thought he was registering, as opposed to creating a profile. But the error became apparent when the first bite of interest came from an older woman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My dad was like, ‘Why is someone who is 50 years old giving information for my daughter?’ ” Gomathi giggles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A tech-savvy cousin soon came to the rescue — and now Gomathi was on the hot seat. “Within two weeks, he [her father] came back with a list of 15 guys. I was really overwhelmed!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She demurred, but her dad insisted, and then begged her to at least call his favorite: Prashanth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Prashanth\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prashanth Vishnumangalam Narayanan was 27, a Fremont resident and established consultant on supply chain management for PricewaterhouseCoopers in San Jose, when he started getting curious calls from his mother in Chennai.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10694743\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 361px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10694743\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GomathiPrashanthVERT.jpg\" alt=\"Gomathi and Prashanth\" width=\"361\" height=\"554\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gomathi and Prashanth\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She told him women were expressing interest in getting to know him better, which made no sense, until she admitted she’d posted a profile of him online. Soon after, she sent him a list of 25 matches. And she hardly let the matter rest there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had my mom’s sister call me and say, ‘This is the right time to talk.’ Then I had my grandma call me and say, ‘This is the right time to talk.’ Then my dad, then everybody, decided to take turns calling me, and say, ‘This is the right time to talk,’ ” says Prashanth. It was obvious he had to talk to somebody, soon. 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I had my freedom, and she had her freedom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, even with the freedom to choose over time, they still felt pressure to come to a decision eventually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Had Gomathi and Prashanth not liked each other, they would have worked through match No. 2, No. 3 — and so on — until they agreed to somebody their parents found suitable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomathi says the two sets of parents got along really well. “Based on their hard work, they were able to come up in life,” she says. “That was something, that both of them have mutual respect for each other. That was something that I also wanted in the person that I was going to marry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came the first phone call. “I remember Gomathi being the one who asked a lot more questions than me asking her,” says Prashanth, laughing. “She was like, ‘Who’s your favorite actress? Who’s your favorite actor? What movies do you like?’ I found her to be very full of energy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple began phoning, texting and talking on FaceTime regularly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a few months, Prashanth and Gomathi decided to meet in Canada. The gravity of it all hit Prashanth as he went through the airport in Edmonton. When the visa officer asked him the purpose of his visit, he said he was going to see “a friend.” A friend he had never met, perhaps his future wife. Prashanth had seen Gomathi only virtually, and he scanned the airport for her. “She seemed small. 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But by the time he left Canada, Gomathi had not made a decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt kind of sad,” Prashanth says. “I thought, initially, I wasn’t emotionally invested, but I learned that I’d been \u003cem>heavily\u003c/em> emotionally invested.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need to understand the person really well before getting married,” Gomathi says, “because it’s a one-time thing, and you just don’t want to screw it up. You just don’t want to make a decision until you know, ‘Yes, this is it!’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prashanth’s mother urged him to talk to other matches from Bharat Matrimony. He told her he wasn’t interested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The couple talked for several more months. Gomathi says her love for Prashanth “deepened more when I realized who Prashanth was and what sort of a guy he was. When I was able to trust him, I really fell for him. I know in my heart that he has high moral standards. 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Their families organized a lavish three-day event that took place in Chennai on June 28, 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Fremont, Capital of Indian California\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Gomathi and Prashanth live in Fremont, home to a large and growing population of immigrants from India, filled with bustling Indian restaurants and stores. \u003ca href=\"http://politicalscience.ucr.edu/people/faculty/ramakrishnan/\">\u003cu>Karthick Ramakrishnan\u003c/u>\u003c/a> (no relation to Gomathi), professor of Public Policy at UC Riverside, says that Indian immigration more than doubled in Silicon Valley between 2000-2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10689913\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10689913 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut-800x667.jpg\" alt='Indian population size and growth in Alameda and Santa Clara counties from 2000-2014, according to the U.S. Census, as distinct from the \"Other Asian\" category.' width=\"800\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut-800x667.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut-400x333.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut-1440x1200.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut-1180x983.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/RS16712_aapidata-kqed-infog-southbay-qut-960x800.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indian population size and growth in Alameda and Santa Clara counties from 2000-2014, according to the U.S. Census, as distinct from the “Other Asian” category. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Professor Karthick Ramakrishnan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That shift is reflected in the number of Californians on Indian matrimonial websites. Shaadi’s chief marketing officer, \u003ca href=\"http://brandequity.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/the-people-report/aditya-save-is-shaadi-coms-new-cmo-anupam-mittal-steps-down-as-ceo/48013510\">\u003cu>\u003cspan style=\"color: #0000ff\">Aditya Save\u003c/span>\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, says approximately 200,000 accounts are registered to people living in the state. He adds that the platform is used mostly by South Asians — and not just first-generation immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of our platform is used by people of Indian origin, born in the U.S., the UK and Australia. A larger percentage of that 200,000 (in California) would be people who are American citizens, born in America, but of Indian descent,” he says. For those spouse seekers, Save says it’s more likely they’ll set up their own profiles, as opposed to letting their parents do it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Gomathi Ramakrishnan co-manages a neuroscience lab at UC San Francisco. Prashanth still works at PricewaterhouseCoopers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their lives as newlyweds are filled with pleasures they enjoy together: playing badminton, watching TV shows like “\u003ca href=\"http://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones\">\u003cu>Game of Thrones\u003c/u>\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"http://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones\">”\u003c/a> and eating ice cream at \u003ca href=\"mailto:https://www.coldstonecreamery.com\">\u003cu>Cold Stone Creamery\u003c/u>\u003c/a>. Gomathi isn’t shy when she explains how she and Prashanth found compatibility first, allowing love to follow after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Love doesn’t happen one sudden day,” she says. “It takes a really long time. I feel like we are still falling in love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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