UnErased: The Deportation of Adoptees in America

UnErased: The Deportation of Adoptees in America

Author: Focus Features, Treefort Media, Limina House Language: English Episodes: 13
Imagine growing up American in every sense-speaking the language, embracing the culture, building a life-only to discover the country you call home doesn't legally recognize you as its own. UnErased: The Deportation of Adoptees in America brings forward the voices of those who lived this exact reality. This podcast, presented by Focus Features, Treefort Media, and Limina House, delves into a hidden chapter of U.S. immigration and adoption policy, where more than 35,000 adult adoptees found themselves without citizenship and at risk of deportation, often without any warning. Each episode is built on intimate, firsthand narratives, allowing adoptees to share their complex journeys in their own words. You'll hear about the shock of discovery, the fight to remain in the only country they've ever known, and the profound personal and bureaucratic battles that define their lives. It's a crucial exploration of belonging, legal limbo, and identity, moving beyond headlines to humanize a systemic failure. Tuning into this podcast means listening to stories that were, for too long, overlooked or silenced, now brought to the forefront with empathy and urgency.
Episodes
5. A Day When Everyone is Home [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 35:15
Kristopher Larsen spent much of his life struggling with the after-effects of trauma he experienced as a young adoptee. After getting his life back on track, Kristopher must now fight a deportation order that would separ…
4. Seeking Redemption [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 37:53
Susan Williams’ troubled childhood took her down a path that ended in imprisonment. But after rediscovering herself in prison and serving her time, she is deported back to South Korea - a place she hasn’t been since she…
3. A Mother's Fight [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 44:45
Anissa Druesedow has fought to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles her entire life. So when she was deported to Panama in 2006 - with no family or source of income to help her - Anissa knew that there were no lim…
2. Southern Boys [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 40:04
Joe Nugent lived in Texas for almost 50 years. Mike Davis was a small business owner in Georgia with a wife and kids. This episode profiles these two men, whose distinctly American lives were shattered when they were for…
1. Don't Give Up [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 35:13
Crystal Moran is a hardworking mother of five who has lived in America since she was just three months old. But in 2016, Crystal’s life was turned upside-down when she was confronted by ICE agents over her immigration st…
Introducing UnErased: The Deportation of Adoptees in America [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:30
More than 35,000 adult adoptees in the United States spent their entire lives completely unaware that they lacked citizenship and faced deportation. Their stories deserve to be heard - in their own words. Their stories d…
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Duration: 46:07
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4. Smid [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 45:11
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3. Dr. Davison and the Gay Cure [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 38:51
This is one of the rarest stories of all: a man who publicly experiences a profound change of heart. This is a profile of one of the gods of psychotherapy, who through a reckoning with his own work (oddly enough in the p…
2. Mama Bears to the Rescue [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 42:04
What if you’re a mother who’s a leader in the Christian community and your kid comes out as gay? Who do you call? The Mama Bears. This is the story of one woman who created a supergroup of like-minded mothers who faced d…