The New Americans

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• Season 1 Episode 5: EPISODE: 5

  The fortunes of the immigrants are compared and contrasted, as Ventura Flores moves to California to be near her sister, Anjan and Harshini go their separate ways following the dot.com bust, and Barine proudly watches her children graduate from school. Ricardo's dream of playing in the major leagues comes true, and Hatem's business premises are burned out following the September 11 attack - but he remains optimistic he can help turn around the tide of anti-Arab feeling sweeping America. Last in series

• Season 1 Episode 4: EPISODE: 4

  Anjan Bacchu uses an online marriage bureau in a bid to find a wife before leaving Bangalore for Silicon Valley, the Flores family's visas finally come through and Jose's disappointing performances land him back in Montana for a second baseball season. Naima secures work teaching Arabic at the university, while Hatem becomes a spokesman for his community as the second intifada is sparked off

• Season 1 Episode 3: EPISODE: 3

  Several of the immigrants make emotional journeys to their home countries, as Naima bids farewell to her mother to return to the West Bank and Ricardo visits his grandmother in the Dominican Republic, spending his baseball earnings to give her a new kitchen and bathroom. Barine also returns to the newly democratic Nigeria, to attend the re-burial of her brother Ken Saro-Wiwa. A new subject for the series is introduced in the form of Pedro Flores, a Mexican working in the meat-packing plants of Kansas. Although he earns more than he could at home, he misses his family and is hoping to raise enough money to move his relatives to the US