Immigrants Are Just the Same

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"I think telling a full story is too. Because often i think imigrants are kind of either sold as, you know, criminals and a danger and a threat," she says. "There's like, huge complexity in each person." She adds that resisting simple stories about immigrants is one thing we can all do without much effort.

On a list of the least funny topics imaginable, the global refugee crisis, border disputes, and questions of citizenships are probably close to the top. And yet comedian Maeve Higgins has spent her career finding ways to make jokes about (and make sense of) the ways we draw lines across the globe. She’s a standup and a writer who speaks from the point of view of an Irish immigrant in the United States. In this episode, she talks about ways we can find funny and eye-opening vantage points to look at the realities and borders of the world, our place in it, and how imagination and laughter can help us through tough times.