The document sitting on her computer desktop is a constant reminder to Christiane Rey that she has yet to fill out the form that would lead towards her U.S. citizenship. It reminds her of the things she had to give...
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Jacqueline sits on the bed, staring up blankly with heavy blue eye shadow surrounding her painted eyes. Twenty-two year old Laura Mesa picks her up, pushing down some of her wiry red hair, and explains that...
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Sponsorship is tricky term, much like green cards which are no longer green. Immigrant sponsorship is often used to refer to the process an immigrant must go through to come to the United States. While most...
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The name Seamus Blake says it all. Blake is the son of immigrants from Ireland and an “evangelist” of the Gaelic language. He has a weekly broadcast on WFUV-FM in New York that plays everything from Afro-Celtic funk to lessons on how to speak the...
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The title “immigration specialist” grabbed my attention in this article in the Business, Innovation, Technology and Society (Bits) section of the online New York Times. Christine Doyle does not, as I first...
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I rarely took note of the immigrants who lived in Nashville while I was growing up. Though there were large communities of immigrants from different African nations, my world consisted primarily of Southerners whose American heritage often stretched back several generations....
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Truemors
The Belgian cabinet maker