Immigrant Stories: How did you come to US?

one of the immigrants that i was teaching english and u.s. history to just called me and informed me that she failed the last part of the exam. i am so upset at how complicated the exam is.

there are several portions to the exam:

an english reading portion

an english writing portion

an english…

gillooly:

Thomas Galhuly was born in Ireland in 1828. He immigrated to the U.S. sometime before 1853; he lived, briefly, in New York and moved to Coventry, Summit County, OH by 1855.
He married Bridget McFarland around 1852 and they had at least six children. Bridget was the daughter of John and Anna…

evyvalmar:

i know that being in this country will help me gain a better future and give my kids a better life as well but i’m tired of crying every time i see a picture of my nieces and nephews and aunts and uncles and cousins that i haven’t seen in almost 6 years. i miss both of my grandparents and…

fatpandabat:

…she referred to the philippines as “home”

and i mean, she is in fact an immigrant from Manila. but then again, she’s lived in the United States for over 23 years now. i suppose it just means that despite what a paper says about your citizenship, despite the years spent in a country, you…

urbanfoodproduction:

We are looking for people from different nationalities based in Berlin that wish to join our project, Invisible Twinning.

We are collecting photographs, interviews, sketches, recipes, maps and stories providing information on herbs, fruit, vegetables or plants grown in the allotments, which have significance for the immigrant populations: the collected materials will become a publication.

 The participants will be asked how they use different plants for health in their food, recipes for the ingredients they are growing, about the produce that they are not able to find in Germany that they miss, stories or tales associated with food and health, what “community” and “health” means to them. We will also look at plants that are already grown on the KGA, which may hold significance to the immigrant population as well as look at the countries of origin and global movement of plants, vegetables, and herbs, which are already grown in the allotments.

Well, look, that was one of the things that was remarkable. The solitude of being an immigrant, the solitude of having to learn a language and a culture from scrap, the need for some sort of explanation, the need for answers, the need for something that would…in some ways shelter me, led me to…

throughmyegyptianeyes:

Born into poverty in Pasadena, Ca my father an immigrant struggled to support the family. We spent a few years living in the homeless shelter he worked at on skid row in LA. As my father made his way up in the “New World” our life improved. Now officially a US citizen my father’s family moved over…

amagzz:

Full of thought. Some rather meaningless, some pretty significant.

First, The White Stripes broke up officially this week. And although I was never a huge fan and didn’t own their entire discography, I remember hearing “Icky Thump” for the first time and the lyric:

“Why don’t you kick yourself…

lifeofanimmigrant:

I am not exaggerating when I say that moving to U.S.A is a dream for many people in India and quite an unattainable one at that.

Ever since I was little, it was ingrained in my mind that I need to work hard and get good grades so that when I graduate school, I can go study abroad….