by Jack Doppelt | Jun 15, 2016 | Chinatown, Family, Identity
By Yi (Julian) Cao, Medill, Immigrant Connect [See sidebar: It’s all in the name: Lee and Lee Family Association of Chicago] Jeremy Yuan-shuo Li sits in his office, looking out the window at a bustling Chinatown, which is a tourist attraction for young people. It is...
by Jack Doppelt | Apr 24, 2016 | Family, Fiesta Del Sol, Learning the Language, Our Staff
By Anika Hope Henanger, Medill, Immigrant Connect Wedging a steaming plate of cheese quesadillas onto the crowded table, Ronaldo smiles at me – he knows my order by heart. Families shout conversations above the mariachi music. Plates and glasses clang in the kitchen....
by Jack Doppelt | Jun 21, 2011 | Featured projects, The Migration, What's New, World Refugee Day
Audio slideshow: Hear refugees who have resettled in Chicago talk about their experiences, from the persecution they experienced back home – in Iraq, Burma, Bhutan or Iran – to their times in refugee camps to their resettlement in Chicago. Many of the...
by Anna Bisaro | Jun 10, 2011 | Back Home, Family, Problems with Papers, The Migration, What's New, World Refugee Day
On the afternoon of July 12, 2007, Alham Hasan received the phone call no wife ever wants to answer. A relative called her in Jordan to tell her that her husband had been kidnapped in Iraq. The kidnappers offered an ultimatum: $50,000 in ransom, or they would kill...
by Mitchell Armentrout | Oct 12, 2010 | Our Staff, Puerto Rican Festival, Uncategorized, What's New
When I first met Luke Siuty, we were part of the same freshman orientation group, bumbling and stumbling our way through the first day of high school. He showed me the way to the science wing of the building. I helped him with his locker combination. We were fast...
by turman | Sep 1, 2010 | Irish American Festival, Summer 2010 Projects, Uncategorized
Melissa Nunenz, 18, tells of her mother’s hardships and how her mother immigrated to the United States from Mexico while pregnant so that she could have a better life....
