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For this Mexican immigrant, hurtful stereotypes are a motivation to break glass ceilings and scale walls

For this Mexican immigrant, hurtful stereotypes are a motivation to break glass ceilings and scale walls

by kenagy | Jun 1, 2021 | Family, Identity, Work, Jobs and Money

By Isabelle Kenagy, Medill, Immigrant Connect                                                                                     June 2021 As Socorro Castro steps out of O’Hare International Airport, she can’t help but notice the cold and gloom. The trees are dead....

How did COVID-19 affect Ramadan celebrations in the Arab American community around Dearborn, Michigan?

by Jack Doppelt | Jun 12, 2020 | Culture Shock, Family, Good Question

By Bailey Pekar, Medill, Immigrant Connect For Manar Kodamah, celebrating Ramadan in quarantine “doesn’t have the same spirit” that she’s used to feeling. Usually, celebrating Ramadan is marked as a time of togetherness when Kodamah’s extended family and friends...

Instructions for death can be a Chamorro woman’s expression of life fully lived

by Jack Doppelt | Jun 9, 2020 | Family, Our Staff

Imani Sumbi, Medill, Innocent Connect I try to listen closely. My grandmother is providing instructions on how she wants to be ushered into the afterlife. I don’t want to forget any details and let her down. She leads me to her closet and points out the lacey mint...

Savta shows me that tradition doesn’t stagnate

by Jack Doppelt | Jun 9, 2020 | Family, Our Staff

Ash Ravid, Medill, Immigrant Connect, immigrant Connect CNN is on the kitchen TV, the New York Times newsletter is on my laptop, we’re drinking our morning french press, and my grandmother is telling anyone who will listen all the news that has anything to do with...

Grandfather Gaioni’s love for cooking and food are the ties to Italy that bind

by Jack Doppelt | Jun 9, 2020 | Back Home, Family, Our Staff

Bailey Pekar, Medill, Immigrant Connect The heart of our home is in the kitchen, where my grandfather and I sit at the table in the late afternoon. In front of him is his prized wooden cutting board, with its fancy scalloped handle, laden with peaches that he slices...

A snip, snip, here and some family history there

by Jack Doppelt | Jun 9, 2020 | Family, Identity, Our Staff

By Jason Harward, Medill, Immigrant Connect The salon was sometimes busy, but business is slower than usual on this weekday afternoon near the end of summer. When it was busy, I remember hating the wait. Unlike my doctor or dentist appointments, I can’t locate a...
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