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How to Have an American Baby
By Leslie Tai. A co-presentation with Chasing the Dream, a public media initiative from The WNET Group.
Season 36
Episode 3614
HOW TO HAVE AN AMERICAN BABY is a kaleidoscopic voyage into the shadow economy catering to Chinese tourists who travel to the US to give birth for citizenship. Told through a series of intimately observed vignettes, the story of a hidden global economy emerges–depicting the fortunes and tragedies that befall the ordinary people caught in its web.
