Maria Castilla

  Maria Castilla was born in Argentina and grew up there. When she moved to America she was 20 and had 2 young kids. The decision to move there was not one that she chose. As a newly-wed Maria would not separate herself and her family from her husband, Hector....

Dieuner Joseph

Dieuner Joseph was born on April 4, 1968 in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti to Lucienne Joseph and Tardieu Joseph. He lived in Haiti with his mother, older brother, and two older sisters while his father worked in a factory in the US. When he was 14 they immigrated to the US...

My Immigration Story

It was 2013, I was 13 years old and my family and I had moved from Hong Kong to Florida. We lived in Hong Kong for almost five years and moving to the United States was a great change for all of us. The moving process to different countries had been very familiar to...

Elizabeta Katcha

My great-grandmother’s name was Elizabeta Catherine Katcha, but she was known as Nanny. She was born in a German colony of Romania in the middle of World War 1 (1914). Eleven years after her birth her family made the decision to move to America to get a better...

The Excitements That Await

When I look back at my undergraduate, I think of all the great memories and I shared with people who ended up becoming some of my closest friends. After college, I had a desire to study more, so I started to look around at different universities to pursue my Master’s...

Hun-Yong Jo

Hun_s_Picture-16n2g74Hun-Yong Jo was originally from Seoul, South Korea. It wasn’t his decision to immigrate to America. The nine year old knew he was going to live in a different country, but at first it didn’t feel real to him. To the boy, it felt that he was going...
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