Starting Over

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There is a new kind of asylum seeker fighting for refugee status in the United States - women fleeing their home countries because of violence from their own families. We meet a woman who felt her brothers’ beatings, only to find her case stuck in the American legal system. Then, we hear from a German journalist who left her home - reflecting on the way her country is accepting Syrians who left their homes. We visit a Vietnamese engineer who was forced to start from scratch in the United States. Now he is reconnecting with his homeland through one of America’s favorite seafoods - shrimp. Also, the story of a poem that bears the name of a female Chinese poet, even though it was written by a white American man. Plus, an American baseball player explains how he helped make Haruki Murakami one of the most famous Japanese writers in history. Photo: Many women like ‘Nina’, fled from Saudi Arabia after facing threats from her family. Credit: Alison Yin)