by Alex Hollander | Nov 5, 2010 | Family, Identity, Stories, The Migration, What's New
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by Alex Hollander | Dec 15, 2009 | Work, Jobs and Money
Leaning over his laptop, Jorge Davalos, 26, sits at a table inside a tiny Mexican cafe while Spanish pop music plays loudly in the background. Just a couple of blocks from the Mexican Consulate, this is the first place Davalos found in Chicago that makes him feel at...
by Alex Hollander | Dec 12, 2009 | Back Home, Family, The Migration, Work, Jobs and Money
On Madison Street in Oak Park, Danche Ivanovic sits on the work stool nestled in his eponymous guitar shop reminiscing about his life in the former Yugoslavia. There is a café there that he went to everyday for twenty years to drink espresso with his friends and...
by Alex Hollander | Dec 4, 2009 | Good Question, The Migration
When Danut Mitroi, 48, first heard about the United States Diversity Visa Lottery, he thought it was a joke. “It didn’t cost that much—just the price of a stamp,†he said. “I told my wife [about it], but she said we weren’t that lucky.†Mitroi, a...
by Alex Hollander | Oct 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
“Perro, gato, leche!†I trilled into the phone. In our first conversation in three years, those were the only words I could remember from the language my nanny and I had shared for the first two-thirds of my life. Those and the lyrics to “Frosty the...
