International comedy group The Portuguese Kids, Derrick DeMelo and Brian Martins, talk to Home is the Journey, about growing up in Massachusetts as kids of immigrants, revealing the sources and conflicts that create their comedy, performing for international audiences, the role of the internet, and discussing the history and future of cultural institutions in immigrant communities.

In their opening segment, Miguel tells Gil about the time he blew an interview for a job on Wall Street by telling a very bad but clean joke.

with Gilberto Fernandes and Miguel Moniz

Conversations about communities around the world shaped by mobilities from Portugal, to Portugal, and beyond Portugal. Anthropologist Miguel Moniz (ICS, Universidade de Lisboa) and historian Gil Fernandes (York University) are public scholars with expertise in the contemporary issues and history of Portugal and Portuguese immigration in North America.

Websites: miguelmoniz.com | gilbertofernandes.ca

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Music by Farra Fanfarra: farrafanfarra.bandcamp.com

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