by Jack Doppelt | Feb 12, 2017 | Back Home, Family, Our Staff, The Migration
By Andy Weir, Medill, Immigrant Connect I’m warming up a hot dog in a microwave when my mother walks into the kitchen, balks at what I’m doing, and abruptly walks away. “Perhaps she just thinks it’s not healthy,” I think to myself. “Maybe she’s just got something...
by Jack Doppelt | Feb 12, 2017 | Back Home, Problems with Papers, The Migration
By Daniela Grava, Medill, Immigrant Connect “Hablas español?” he asks me. “Claro,” I answer. Estamos en Miami, after all. I am in the front seat of an uber on my way back from a friend’s house. A casual night. I can tell my driver is Cuban by his strong accent and...
by Jack Doppelt | Feb 7, 2017 | Fearing the Law, Our Staff, The Migration
By Zoe Davis, Medill, Immigrant Connect I’m anxiously waiting for Lídice to walk through the restaurant door. It’s been less than a year since I first met her in Cuba. Yet since then, she has left Cuba for good to move to the U.S. My dad and I are on a stopover in...
by Jack Doppelt | Jun 20, 2016 | Culture Shock, Family, Identity, Problems with Papers, The Migration
By Rachel Yang, Medill, Immigrant Connect Joy Alessi waited in line for four hours to get her passport. When it was finally her turn to speak to someone at the bureau, she was instead told she was not actually a U.S. citizen. “It was pretty disturbing,” Alessi...
by Jack Doppelt | Jun 19, 2016 | Back Home, Culture Shock, Family, The Migration
By Wei Wei, Medill, Immigrant Connect Zhou* is busy packing her suitcase for the flight back to China tomorrow. She flew to the United States three months ago to accompany her son, Tom, who attends the 10th grade of a private high school in a suburb of Chicago....
by Jack Doppelt | Jun 14, 2016 | Family, The Migration, Work, Jobs and Money
By Zachary Basu, Medill, Immigrant Connect “I grew up here,” says Marta Gerez, stretching her arms out and motioning toward the organized chaos of West Fullerton Avenue. “My parents came to Logan Square from Puerto Rico when I was seven and I lived here comfortably...
