by Jack Doppelt | Jan 28, 2012 | Featured projects, What's New
Immigrant Connect and RefugeeLives present the first installment of our 2012 refugee stories. Please visit our companion site – Shifting Diasporas in the Arab World – for the special feature on Palestinian and Iraqi refugees in Jordan. In Dec. 2011, at a...
by Jack Doppelt | Jan 21, 2012 | Back Home, Family, What's New
Hayder Al-Suhail was hiding something from his mother, not intending to hurt her. He wanted to protect her. He’d only been in the United States for less than a year when he received the good news. He decided to break it to her. When he left Baghdad for the U.S....
by Karen Chen | Jan 15, 2012 | Back Home, Culture Shock, Family, Fearing the Law, Problems with Papers, The Migration, What's New, Work, Jobs and Money
Eugene Peba made it to America. Now he’s waiting to hear if he can stay. [Hear the interview featuring this story on WBEZ’s Worldview: A Nigerian refugee fights for a life and his marriage in the U.S. It aired on Jan. 31, 2012. Read an earlier story –...
