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A name is just a name but not mine in Cyrillic

A name is just a name but not mine in Cyrillic

by Jack Doppelt | Nov 18, 2017 | Back Home, Family, Learning the Language

By Natalya Carrico, Medill, Immigrant Connect I’m 13 or 14 years old, at one of our family reunions. I ask Grandpa if he can still speak Ukranian.  He chuckles and says a few words, his sister joining in. The words make no sense to me, but the cadence is...

My grandmother’s boxful of books is all I have so what now?

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...

For refugees in the U.S., politics is a luxury

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,...

At home in Hyde Park: Bridging the divide between home and heart for Syrian refugees

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...

The phone rings and Aunt Paoola can smile again

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...

It’s just a game. For me, maybe, not for Ecuador

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...
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