immigration stories Archives

For me, writing was an act of survival because it got me through all those [...]

15
Jan

"I believe to be American there is a passion for wanting to expand the definition [...]

09
Jan

Susan Muaddi Darraj is a Palestinian-American writer who has won multiple awards for her short [...]

07
Jan

At a time when people around the world travel great distances to be home with [...]

27
Dec

"My writing emerges from that borderland between many languages. Bengali, Italian, English. I draw on [...]

18
Dec

"I only belong in places I create. And that has been, I think, the most [...]

11
Dec

Historian Dominic A. Pacyga grew up on the South Side of Chicago in a working [...]

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07
Dec

I became a writer because I grew up with storytellers, oral storytellers. Some of them [...]

04
Dec

Rebecca Deng hasn’t had an easy life. Born in what is now South Sudan, her [...]

02
Dec

Every week, the AWM shares stories written by Museum visitors. This week, we feature immigration [...]

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22
Nov