>> building a better bay area, moving forward, finding solutions, this is abc 7 news. kristen: we asked experts your questions every day at 3:00 get answers for you in real time. have you seen the new pixar film "turning red"? the visual effects supervisor is a trail blazer who mentors girls in stem and animation. she will be joining us live as we continue to celebrate women's history month. from "joy ■luk club" to"crazy rich asians," how much do you

know about asian american pop culture? what is asian america? we will be chatting with them ahead of their appearance at the commonwealth club. first, many ukrainians are fleeing their country. job boards are overflowing with offers specifically for refugees. what is the impact of this mass migration? joining us, a professor of economics at uc davis. droctor, thank you for joining s today. >> thank you for having me. >> more than 3 million ukrainians have fled their country. where have they gone? >> many of them are heading to poland, romania. each european country is actually accepting some. italy, france, the u.k., all have received refugees in the tens of thousands. kristen: how about the u.s.?

have we received any, and how many? >> not yet. the u.s. takes a little while. there are a few ukrainians who have some strong network connections, may be some family in the u.s., who have been able to arrive, but the u.s. has received not even 1000 of them. kristen: let's talk about the u.s. a little bit later. i want to start with europe. poland, the big one, but other countries, germany, etc., offering jobs for ukrainian refugees. no doubt jobs are important in helping people resettle in their new countries. what types of jobs are we talking about? >> this is an unprecedented move from european countries, so fast that these refugees are allowed to have jobs. in large part, the jobs that they will be taking are also many of the jobs which some european countries have had difficulties in building -- building.

assistance of the elderly. services in health care. services in restaurants, hospitality services. those are many of the services that, because the european population is shrinking and aging, they are experiencing shortages. many of the ukrainians arriving will be in those jobs. many of them have already been. there are already ukrainians taking assistants of elderly care. there are some professionals who will take science and engineering jobs as well. kristen: they could provide a boom for the countries who take them in. many european countries are in need of laborers. is this a highly skilled populace that is now in europe? >> at this stage, it's a little bit hard. there is not a sense of who is

really fleeing. in this first wave, women and children are overrepresented. many men are still staying. the ukraine is a population that has a very high schooling rate. most of them have a secondary education, many have tertiary education. many of them -- women employed in a sector like high tech services, human capital, human resource intensive types of jobs . the expectation is that many of them will be high human capital, high skills. they could provide a boost, on top of feeling some shortages -- filling some shortages. kristen: should the u.s. not step up its competition for the ukrainian immigrants that may come? job visas, place them with families? are those things happening? >> in the u.s., and they wait for the channel of refugees, it

will take a little longer. there is some betting that needs to be done -- venting -- vetting that needs to be done. u.s., so the first place it would be easy for them to apply is europe. the u.s. would have a big benefit in making it easier, rather than harder, for these people to come. in this first month, many of them will feel that they want to go back. staying in europe is still probably for the overwhelming majority of them a preferred option because they they -- then they can go back and it will be easier. moving to the u.s. would mean a more permanent resettlement that we will see if the war continues, but maybe in two or three or four months from now. kristen: looking historically, what has the u.s. done in the past in similar situations when there is war and people are fleeing their homeland? do we have a typical response,

or does it vary based on the country to refugees are coming from? >> clearly, it depends a lot on the countries. the u.s. has been extremely generous in getting rough -- admitting refugees from vietnam and cambodia during the time of the vietnam and southeast asia wars. they were feeling responsible for some of those. they have been very generous in admitting refugees from the ex-soviet union. a lot of the highly skilled mathematicians and scientists that were fleeing the soviet union i found easy access in the u.s. also from cuba. the u.s. has been much more careful in other situations. afghanistan and iraq as a confluence of the war and syria, there has been more vetting, a need to make sure we are not allowing access to the u.s. to

people who could be a danger. so, there has been a little bit more of a slow approach. over time, the u.s. has been admitting over 100,000 refugees per year, until the last two, three years, when this was reduced. it does have an important role in admitting refugees from all countries in the world. kristen: can american families sponsor ukrainian refugees? >> need to come from the u.n. high refugee console -- counsel. if they have some of their family that already reside in the u.s., they can definitely sponsor ukrainian refugee. there are many ukrainian communities in the u.s. where there is some family, they can definitely sponsor for a green card. for permanent residence in the u.s. kristen: how quickly do you

expect that to happen? in the silicon valley, we have a sizable population of ukrainians here. how quickly will that move, do you think? vice president harris, when she was in poland, was asked about the u.s. doing more and quickly. it seems a little noncommittal at this point. >> yeah. on one hand, you are right. from the authorities, we have not had a very strong signal. on the other, we know that there is some backlog in processing, in general, immigrants after covid. as you know, immigration has essentially been halted for two years in the u.s. because of covid, because of the possibility of traveling. there are some backlogs of people who are in line, but have been in line for a very long time. i cannot believe it is going to be so quick. maybe we will create a preferential line for ukrainians, but it will be months. i don't think it will be days or weeks. it would be a few months before

these sponsor and green card can be available. kristen: dr. peri, i know this is your specialty. what other impact is there that maybe we haven't even thought of, when you have millions of people suddenly migrating in this way? how does it affect us in different ways? >> migration, in general, is one of those forces that has very deep consequences on the sending and receiving countries. my studies and research has always been focused on all the potential positive economic effects that immigrants have brought. two europe and to the united states, immigrants bring different culture, different ideas, different skills. they are an incredible asset to grow. they are younger than the natives and where there is an aging population, this will generate a possibility. they are -- it also comes at the cost of adjusting our culture. at the beginning, may straining

some of our public sector schools, because a lot of their kids need education, maybe health care, because they need assistance. in the short term, that could be a cost and investment. but in the long term, a huge economic asset for the receiving countries. the ukrainian crisis, there's a pontg what you've said anda told us seems to align with the fact that the u.s. has always provided its strength in the diversity in the immigrants who come and help build this country. dr. peri, thank you so very much for your time today. really appreciate the conversation. >> thank you. kristen: coming up next, pixar is celebrating girls and women with its latest film. we are talking to the visual effects supervisor of

kristen: disney and pixar's new film "turning red" is the coming age story of a chinese canadian girl hitting puberty, learning to navigate all of the changes happening to her body and her relationships. it's women's history month, so we want to highlight "turning re d's" all female leadership team, which includes visual effects supervisor danielle feinberg. she is joining us to take us behind the scenes of "turning red." i just watched it last night with my family. we loved it. congratulations. so fun. >> thank you. kristen: the visual effects, especially when the panda -- i don't want to give it all away.

there some trickery involving the eye. visual effects, amazing. you graduated from harvard with a degree in computer science. did you think this was something you could work in, film? >> my junior year, i was taking this computer graphics class and the professor, probably 1994, showed a short film that pixar was making back then. no one knew what pixar was. the first time i saw those, i thought, that's what i have to do with my life. computer animation was brand-new . there hadn't been a feature film made. i thought, that's what i had to do. that's what i set my sights on. kristen: not only are you doing it now, i think right now you are doing it as part of an all-female leadership team at "turning red." talk about having the women's view and vision -- i know this is the first female director of the film -- feature film at pixar. talk about how that was so

critical especially in telling this story. >> this story is very personal to her. a lot of it is elements taken from her life, except panda part . having it be an all-female leadership team for the first time and pixar history was incredibly informative, but also really on this movie that's that's really cool on this movie that's -- but also really cool on this movie that's about a 13-year-old girl. my wife and i just had twins. i got to go in every morning and meet with this all-female leadership team, most of whom are moms, and say, these kids are not sleeping, help me. there was this other side of real support during the production, especially during this whole pandemic, when we were making the movie. it was really cool. kristen: it was so cool. i love seeing how strong the girls were, the friends being therefore mei - there for mei,

when she needed them, and vice versa. and the mom-daughter relationship. i would not bring pads to school and hide behind the tree. i'm so glad you've taught -- tackled these topics. it's great. i have to ask you, because i think a lot of people, when they enjoy these pixar films, it's not their job to think about the math part, but you do. there's so many calculations. the angles, the shadows. getting it to look realistic. talk to us about how girls can learn to code and become part of this, if this is what they want for their careers? >> luckily, i think there's a ton of coding camps, a ton of games for the ipad or something, so that you can start to learn coding in a very visual way, not necessarily just typing words in that you don't understand. people put all this effort into bringing it to younger and younger generations. it's finding the thing to get your hands on coding and start

to understand at this point in history, you can do anything with code. it's the ultimate thing where, if you know how to code, you can have a career. if making movies is the thing that coding -- the thing, coding is fantastic for that. it expands to fashion, music, all of these amazing things. there are so many entry points and it leads to so much great stuff. kristen: danielle feinberg, really incredible work with "turning red" and all your mentoring. congratulations. i do think there's an inner panda in each of us. let it roar. thank you, danielle. by the way, pixar is owned by disney, the parent company of abc 7. up next, we will talk to the authors of a new book being called a love letter to asian am

kristen: welcome back. with bts and boba dominating the world, with a real-life vice president and a superhero, it may feel like i'm asian -- asian americans have arrived. have asian americans really arrived, and what is asian america anyway? these questions and more are explored in a funny and entertaining new book, "rise: a pop history of asian america from the 1990's to now." joining us are the three authors of the book. hey, guys. thanks for joining us. welcome to san francisco. it's a homecoming, right? >> definitely. i was born in vallejo and raised in walnut creek. kristen: yay! >> i'm from sunnyvale, and my parents still live there. shout out to mom and dad. kristen: they are so proud of

you right now. several of our viewers know your work well. phillip cofounded wong foo productions. phil runs the angry asian man blog. jeff has been writing about asian american culture forever. hudson yang starred as eddie in "fresh off the boat." you three are at the commonwealth club tonight, talking about your new book. it's my new copybook -- coffee table book, the top book on the staff. it's a scrapbook, comic book, history book. what's the big idea behind this book? >> this book is about three decades in which asian american went from being totally invisible to being an incredibly influential force across everything from food to film to television to literature.

basically, manifesting us as a pop culture entity to be contended with. we saw these three decades as being particularly critical, because they were decades in which we took the idea of asian america and gave it some definition, made it mean something. each of us kind of grew up in one of the decades, or came of age in one of the decades we are talking about, the 1990's, 2000's, 2010's. kristen: i know we don't have time to cover all of it, but what are a few watershed events you might want to point out that defined us and got us to where we are? >> there are a lot of great moments in the book, a lot of movements that are highlighted. we talk about jeremy lynn -- lin-sanity. there's a lot of things that only our community knows, that are a little more nuanced. like the culture of -- >> i think a lot of people

attribute just the joy luck club and "crazy rich asians," maybe that's all asians are responsible for. there's a lot in between that. we wanted to make sure it was covered. kristen: here is the "crazy rich asians" part. do you feel like every time there is a stride with a "crazy rich asians," there's also kind of a step back in some ways? you make a point to talk about the steps backward and the perpetual foreigner thing that still hasn't been shed. >> obviously, we wrote this book during covid, during a pandemic, in which a lot of us were at home, not just worrying about the disease, but this rising anti-asian violence and hostility. i think that's something that's been a big caution for us. just as much as we are celebrating our rise, we are recognizing that, on an ongoing

basis, on a cyclic basis, we have been subjected to un-other ring -- to an othering that often puts us in danger. kristen: definitely. you talk about vincent chen. a lot of people may not remember. tell us why you covered it in this book, his death, and why it is still relevant today. >> i think myself and a lot of people, we grew up not knowing about that story. it wasn't until much later that we learned about that and we were like, how come nobody told us about this, this act of violence that killed an innocent young man in detroit in the 1980's. i remember hearing that story thinking, that could've been me, that could've been someone i knew. it really hit home, all the times i had been made to feel like i did not belong here, that this was not my country, even though i was born and raised here. that feeling of just relating to that story. i feel like everyone should know that story, and all the others

like it, that, too often, we just sweep under the rug. >> as you mentioned, it's still happening to this day, and it's important to acknowledge that, despite all these celebrations that we highlight in the book. we have to acknowledge that we still have a long way to go. this book isn't just, hey, we made it. clearly, there's a lot of progress and a lot of work that needs to be done within our community, and that's something we help this -- we hope this book can help shed light on. kristen: if people see our authentic stories, that's one reason why -- philip, you should talk about this. so many social media content creators and influencers are asian american. is that partly because we couldn't do it the traditional way? >> 100%. for decades, just the existence of hollywood, there was a very high barrier for entry, a lot of nepotism, a lot of who you know. obviously, our community, a lot of our parents are immigrants

who came here. we didn't have those connections, the freedom, the resources to enter this industry. a lot of us, particularly for myself and my peers that came up in the youtube age, we look for ways through the back door, ways we could test drive it without having to go full-fledged and disappoint our parents. what's great is that a lot of people really did find success. now we are seeing the products of, the results of a lot more asian americans entering creative spaces, entering fields where they are not afraid to show themselves and try something different. that's going to lead to more inspiration for the next generation. it's really wonderful to see. kristen: don't worry about the disappointing parents part. i just saw "turning red." sometimes it's ok to disappoint your mom, because in the end, she will be proud of you. >> my dad reads youtube comments now. he is always telling me to fix my hair and stuff. kristen: that's never going to stop. jeff, what's the one thing you

hope viewers, readers will walk away with, if they remember one thing? >> we dedicated this book to the ones who come next. even though this is a history book, a look back at 30 years, we really did see it as something that affirms this journey. the first step in a much longer trip. it's our kids, each of us now is parents. philip became a father during this book. kristen: we can talk more about that when we take it off there. i want to take time to let folks know you will be at the commonwealth club in san francisco tonight, and they do have both virtual and in-person tickets available. definitely worth checking out.

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