by Jack Doppelt | Jun 14, 2020 | Good Question
By Michael Fitzpatrick, Medill, Immigrant Connect Fear and uncertainty come naturally to Chutmagai Bul Ayual. Ayual spent 13 years walking across Africa and in refugee camps. The scarring experiences left Ayual in a position to confront almost anything. The Covid-19...
by Jack Doppelt | Jun 14, 2020 | Back Home, Good Question, Work, Jobs and Money
By Chloe Jeonghyun Heo, Medill, Immigrant Connect At the beginning of April, KANU (Koreans Association at Northwestern University) distributed disposable masks to anyone who applied for one. “[At that time], a lot of Koreans were going back to Korea,” said an...
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...
by Jack Doppelt | Jun 12, 2020 | Good Question, Work, Jobs and Money
By Lydia Rivers, Medill, Immigrant Connect “I don’t suggest you go buy traditional or alternative medicine, or the herb to cure [COVID-19],” says Lynn Chang, the owner of Tiện Thuốc Bắc Vĩnh Hoa, a traditional Chinese medicine shop in uptown Chicago that she opened in...
by Jack Doppelt | Jun 11, 2020 | Good Question, Work, Jobs and Money
By Rachel Baldauf, Medill, Immigrant Connect When Devraj Keray’s family opened the first Pioneer Cash & Carry in 1982, they sought to provide the local Artesia, Calif. community with fresh Indian groceries and products. Since then, their business has expanded....
by Jack Doppelt | Jun 10, 2020 | Good Question
By Connie Deng, Medill, Immigrant Connect Alina Zhu planned to fly home to Shanghai in March. About two months later, she was still in Houston. Zhu’s parents wanted her home after Rice University, where Zhu is a rising junior, announced that all classes would be...
