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Guest: Tanya Golash-Boza, PhD, Professor of Sociology, University of California-Merced When it arrives in our mailboxes two years from now, the US Census will include the question: Are you a United States citizen? The Commerce Department just announced this week that question will go back on the full, once-every-ten-years census survey Americans are required to take. It’ll be the first time in 50 years that has been the case. Already, more than a dozen states, led by California, have filed a lawsuit to stop the question from being added. Let’s get a sense of why this is controversial.

Guest: Ken Bugul, Author, “Le Baobab Fou” If you look at the list of countries whose citizens have left for other places over the last decade, Syria’s emigrant population has grown the fastest worldwide. The rest of the top ten countries with fastest growing rates of emigration are all in Africa. So it’s not too surprising that migration was something Ken Bugul spoke passionately about during a recent visit to our studio as a guest of BYU’s Africana Studies program.  Ken Bugul is from Senegal. She’s one of French-speaking Africa’s most celebrated authors. Her writing deals with independence, loss, inequality and identity. Her next novel is about migration. It’s unfortunate that only one of her books has been translated into English, because there’s a lot Ken Bugul wishes we, in the West, understood.