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Vida
Hard-hitting series exposes the gentrification process ravaging US cities
SISTER ACT: Michel Prada and Melissa Barrera in Vida
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REPORTS of a new kind of “white flight” to the suburbs, as in the 1960s, are currently all over the news in the US.
But this time it is also a flight from Covid-19 in beleaguered cities to the supposed safety of rural areas and the suburbs.
This flight is fuelling the decades-long process of gentrification and it’s the focus of a Mexican neighbourhood in the series Vida on Amazon Prime.
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