by Jack Doppelt | Apr 23, 2017 | Uncategorized
By Sidney Thomas, Medill, Immigrant Connect Wielding our US passports, my mother and I are in an immigration line at Miami International Airport awaiting reentry into the country she’s called home for 18 years and one I’ve always called home. My mother is the epitome...
by Jack Doppelt | Apr 23, 2017 | About, Family, Identity, Our Staff, Uncategorized, Work, Jobs and Money
By Amit Mallik, Medill, Immigrant Connect My father is walking with my two older brothers and me along Lake Michigan in Chicago. It’s a misty morning and as we get to Oak Street, he pauses. He has something to tell us. It could be almost anything. He has attained the...
by Jack Doppelt | Apr 22, 2017 | About, Identity, Our Staff, Uncategorized, Work, Jobs and Money
By Sam Brief, Medill, Immigrant Connect Marian cuts a few sections of my rough, brown hair, gathers her hand towel and wipes some hair clippings off my face. We are sitting in Edessa’s Hair Salon, a rectangular-shaped, cozy salon near the corner of Chicago Avenue and...
by Jack Doppelt | Feb 12, 2017 | Back Home, Family, Identity, Our Staff, Uncategorized
By Matt Zdun, Medill, Immigrant Connect “What is that?” I blurt out as I stare up at the ceiling of my best friend Wesley’s dorm room. It is the first time I’m in his room, and I can’t stop looking at it. Wrapped around the exposed water pipe above his bed is a gray...
by Jack Doppelt | Feb 12, 2017 | Culture Shock, Learning the Language, Problems with Papers, Uncategorized
By Ben Pope, Medill, Immigrant Connect My first soccer practice in the fall of 11th grade is not like any before. My attention keeps being drawn to one player. His name is Miguel, and his addition to the team is announced by our coach verbally and by a mere wave by...
by Jack Doppelt | Jun 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
Periodically during this year’s Presidential election campaign, attention turns to immigrants. It did again in late June when the U.S. Supreme Court’s inaction left millions of unauthorized parents and children without the short term protection against...
