The Queen of North Shields
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29m
Zimbabwean refugees in the UK, Josephine and Michael send hundreds home monthly, living in deprived Meadow Well. They see their poor British neighbors’ struggle through a lens of global relativity—their story, "The Queen of North Shields," explores poverty’s fluid identity across Tyneside and Africa.
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