by Jack Doppelt | Nov 18, 2017 | Back Home, Family, Identity
By Sydney Boles, Medill, Immigrant Connect [A fuller version of this story can be found on Autostraddle – I Met My Sperm Donor’s Mom and It Changed Everything] The old woman bustles from bookshelf to bookshelf in her musty but comfortable basement. Her fingers...
by Jack Doppelt | Jun 30, 2017 | 100 Days for Immigrants and Refugees, Back Home, Culture Shock, Ethnic Media Series, The Migration
By Kathryn Karnaze, Medill, Immigrant Connect As a widow with four kids, Amal faces extreme financial, emotional, and physical stress. She and her kids, all under the age of fifteen, have been living in Skokie, a Chicago suburb, for the past seven months. Previously,...
by Jack Doppelt | Jun 29, 2017 | 100 Days for Immigrants and Refugees, Back Home
By Andy Weir, Immigrant Connect Staff Most people know Hyde Park as home to the University of Chicago, but for some Syrian refugees, Hyde Park is also their new home. A college neighborhood on the Southside of Chicago may not immediately come to mind when thinking of...
by Jack Doppelt | Apr 23, 2017 | About, Back Home, Family, Our Staff, The Migration
By Balim Tezel, Medill, Immigrant Connect Every day this week, after I finish my second-grade math homework, I’ve run up to Paoola’s room and play games with her. Paoola and my uncle are visiting us for the week at our family home in Turkey. Just when we start...
by Jack Doppelt | Apr 23, 2017 | About, Back Home, Our Staff, Work, Jobs and Money
By Will Ragatz, Medill, Immigrant Connect “Goooooooooooooool!” When Ecuador’s Michael Arroyo finds the back of the net with a goal to put his country on the scoreboard in its Copa America quarterfinal matchup with the United States, an unlikely friend of mine is sent...
by Jack Doppelt | Apr 23, 2017 | About, Back Home, Family, Identity, Our Staff
By Isabella Soto, Medill, Immigrant Connect The raking, grating sound of the güira punctuates the humid and heavy South Texas night air. It’s the wee hours of the morning and Tio Julio, the lean, bald-headed life of the party, has broken out his güira, an instrument...
