Curator Spotlight: Vesna Jaksic Lowe on What It Means To Straddle Multiple Cultures By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Feature The writer of the Immigrant Strong newsletter wants to diversify your bookshelf.
’Names Have Power’: A Reading List on Names, Identity, and the Immigrant Experience By Cheri Lucas Rowlands Reading List Whether adding a hyphen or changing one’s name completely, the process of naming can be complex.
Motherhood on the Line By Alice Driver Feature Three asylum seekers navigate coronavirus and climate change at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Inside the Chaos of Immigration Court By Gabriel Thompson Feature Gabriel Thompson takes us into San Francisco Immigration Court and the labyrinthine system that asylum seekers—and attorneys and judges—are up against.
All that Was Innocent and Violent: Girlhood in Post-Revolution Iran By Naz Riahi Feature Naz Riahi recalls her vibrant childhood in a suburb of Tehran, and considers how the harsh realities imposed by the still new Islamic Republic seeped into her family’s life.
My Brown Dad Voted for Trump By Anjoli Roy Feature Anjoli Roy struggles to understand the conservative father she dearly loves.
Records on Bone By Longreads Feature One young Ukrainian-American struggles to piece together a clear portrait of her parents’ difficult Soviet past, once they quit erasing, and began embracing, their legacy.
When Your Social Worker Thinks You’re Ungrateful By Dina Nayeri Feature Dina Nayeri’s patience is tried as she accompanies an immigrant family into a bureaucratic nightmare.
Towards Chinatown By fluffysharp Feature Faced with the possibility of losing of her mother, Melissa Hung contemplates another loss — of her mother tongue.
In a World Full of Cruelty and Injustice, Becoming a Mother Anyway By Eliza Margarita Bates Feature A visit to Auschwitz makes Eliza Margarita Bates only more determined to have a baby, despite her painful chronic illness.
At the Maacher Bazaar, Fish For Life By Madhushree Ghosh Feature Madhushree Ghosh continues to honor her late parents’ memory…through the simple act of making fish curry.
I’m Writing You from Tehran By Longreads Feature A French-Iranian journalist writes a letter to her grandfather about the ten years she spent in Iran, trying to make sense of her identity and a country living very different public and private lives.
Uncertain Ground By Grace Loh Prasad Feature Grace Loh Prasad realizes that mourning is complicated when home and homeland aren’t the same place.
Our Words Will Save Us and Set Us Free By Jackson Bliss Feature In the wake of having his writing career belittled, Jackson Bliss becomes an interpreter for a refugee and comes to see words, translations, and storytelling as important acts of resistance.
Eating to America By Naz Riahi Feature When Naz Riahi was 9, she escaped tragedy in Iran only to be confronted by a cruel new world in America. Food became her solace and her tool for assimilating.
The Women Who Help Immigrant Women Escape Domestic Abuse By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight A network of women like Mily Treviño-Sauceda and Valentina are helping Latina farm-worker women escape domestic violence and abuses at work, learn their rights, and connect with social services.
When It’s Time to Say Goodbye to the Old House By Siddhartha Mahanta Feature Siddhartha Mahanta looks back at the small suburban starter house in Texas that helped his immigrant father redefine “home.”
How Does It Feel To Be Unwanted? By Longreads Feature And how many times can you start your life all over again from zero? If there’s anyone who knows the answer, it’s Claudia Amaro.
The Africans Who Suffer in a Deportation Purgatory By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Under the Trump administration, African immigrants are experiencing increasing deportations, though these deportees receive less media attention than deportees from Mexico and Central America.
The Horse Was a Lie (The Horse Is Here With Us Now) By Levi Vonk Feature In Mario Chard’s “Land of Fire,” was it the truth or a lie that killed the migrants in the desert? And what if that’s the wrong question? What if we say it was a horse?
How Women Survive the World: An Interview with Ingrid Rojas Contreras By Naomi Elias Feature To this day, when my mother is driving a car, she will only use the blinkers to indicate that she’s turning at the last second — just so that people behind her don’t know where she’s going.
Smooth Spaces, Fuzzy Lives By Rachel Andrews Feature The border of Northern Ireland was one Rachel Andrews thought she could never cross. Then it began to dissolve.
Why I Lied to Everyone in High School About Knowing Karate By Jabeen Akhtar Feature As a teen, Jabeen Akhtar discovered that trying to be an exceptional immigrant can make you do stupid things.
Silence is a Lonely Country: A Prayer in Twelve Parts By Sadia Hassan Feature A poet reflects on finding her words in the face of injustice.
“The Beasts of the Crossing Have Been Pushed Into the Light” By Michelle Weber Highlight Karla Cornejo Villavicencio’s Jezebel essay “A Theory of Animals” is a gut punch. Read it.
How To Build An Intellectual By Hedia Anvar Feature For one young immigrant, growing up Iranian in New York City meant raising herself.
We Are Scientists By Kirtan Nautiyal Feature A scientist examines the connections between his Indian immigrant father and the brilliant but overlooked Indian scientist Yellapragada Subbarow.
‘Choose Marriage or Education’ By Aaron Gilbreath Feature As a teenager, Madhur Anand’s mother takes heed of her father’s final words and becomes a teacher.
Hurricane Harvey Made Strange Bedfellows in Texas By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight Did the white, far-right neo-Confederates who helped a small Texas Cambodian community rebuild after Hurricane Harvey have a political agenda?
A House of Refuge Marred by Violence By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight The house at 808 East Lewis Street has helped the upwardly mobile reach for their dreams. It’s also seen great violence.
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