by melineh | Jun 3, 2021 | Identity, Work, Jobs and Money
By Melina Chalkia, Medill, Immigrant Connect June 2021 Hector Duarte unlocks the purple, wooden door to his studio — a building covered in a colorful mural, portraying a Mexican immigrant trapped...
by amirah | Jun 3, 2021 | Good Question, Identity
By Amirah Ford, Medill, Immigrant Connect June 2021 Memorial Day weekend 2021 marks 100 years since the Tulsa Race Massacre — when white mobs robbed, beat and murdered Black people in Tulsa, Okla. in 1921. The horror left...
by jane | Jun 2, 2021 | Back Home, Identity
By Jane Greeley, Medill, Immigrant Connect June 2021 Grace Chan McKibben has vivid memories of her visit to Hong Kong in Feb. 2020 shortly after the CDC announced it...
by amirah | Jun 2, 2021 | Culture Shock, Identity, Work, Jobs and Money
By Amirah Ford, Medill, Immigrant Connect June 2021 It’s the last day of school, the final closeout to the year. Amid the hugs goodbye and anticipation for break, a school head...
by yasmeen | Jun 2, 2021 | Identity, Work, Jobs and Money
By Yasmeen Altaji, Medill, Immigrant Connect June 2021 A smiley young man is working behind the register, tending to miscellaneous knick-knacks and a mid-afternoon influx of customers, his pandemic-precautionary mask almost covering...
by margaret | Jun 2, 2021 | Back Home, Identity
By Margaret Fleming, Medill, Immigrant Connect June 2021 Ali Abbas kept his head on a swivel walking home from school in Islamabad. Abbas recalls that nearly everyday, someone...