by gafas | Jun 8, 2010 | Back Home, Identity, Problems with Papers
After a year studying abroad in Rome, Loyola University political science and international studies double major Michael Fricchione came home a changed man. ‘’You think Italian culture in America, you think spaghetti and meatballs,†Fricchione says. “But...
by gafas | May 11, 2010 | Good Question, The Migration
From Mozambican camps in Malawi to those for Cambodians in Thailand, few refugee camps have well-developed education systems for the many minors who live there. In most cases, their schooling, as well as their livelihood, has been uprooted and cut short, with little...
by gafas | Apr 12, 2010 | Back Home
Written more than twenty years ago in 1988, this article in the Chicago Reader tells the tale of Cambodian immigrant Nil Samorn and his life after a genocide that has been overlooked in history books and forgotten by many. An in-depth interview with Samorn is...
by gafas | Apr 11, 2010 | About, Back Home
It had been quite the evening. Food was settling in our stomachs after a long dinner at someplace we liked to think was different – a sushi restaurant in downtown Chicago. I hailed a cab and all four of us girls hopped in clumsily. I got the awkward shotgun seat...
