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New Immigrants Share Their Stories

2011

The students of Newcomers High School in Long Island City, which specializes in teaching recent immigrants, and those of St. Luke's, a private middle school in Manhattan, have come together to dialogue about difference and combat bias.

08:03 min

College Students with Immigrant Parents Are too Often Overlooked

Children of immigrants to the United States that attend university here have unique experiences of their own, and face many of the same obstacles first-generation college students face. Yet, they are often overlooked in discussions of marginalized groups on campus.

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Salma Heram
2021
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Refugee High: Coming of Age in America

Lit Hub's Most Anticipated of 2021 A year in the life of a Chicago high school that has one of the highest proportions of refugees of any school in the nation “A wondrous tapestry of stories, of young people looking for a home.

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Elly Fishman
2025
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Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American

“Go back to where you came from, you terrorist!” This is just one of the many warm, lovely, and helpful tips that Wajahat Ali and other children of immigrants receive on a daily basis.

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Wajahat Ali
2025
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Why I See Myself at an HBCU

While visiting historically Black campuses, I began to reimagine what my college experience could be.

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Chimdindu Okafor
2022
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‘A Story of Great Resilience’: After Fleeing Taliban, Stranded U of T Mississauga Student Turns to Profs for Help

Exam season is a stressful period for many students – but for Sana Hashim it was also the moment when her world was turned upside down.

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Kate Martin
2022
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This Is One Way to Dance: Essays (Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction Ser.)

In the linked essays that make up her debut collection, This Is One Way to Dance, Sejal Shah explores culture, language, family, and place.

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Sejal Shah
2020
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The Hidden Curriculum for FGLI Students

Many first-generation, low-income individuals just starting college face a wide range of unexpected challenges that are left unacknowledged at an institutional level.

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Karen Lu
2021
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Immigrant Community College Students Struggle to Find Support During COVID

City Colleges of Chicago immigrant students balance extra work hours, technology issues and limited English proficiency with remote learning.

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Ata Younan
2021
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The ‘American Dream’ from Immigrants’ Perspectives

On the popular television series “Shark Tank,” the “sharks” usually exclaim after learning an immigrant has made their fortune off an idea, “That’s the American dream!” In every case they equate making a ton of money as the American dream. I disagree.

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Russ Perman
2022
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The Activist’s Handbook: Winning Social Change in the 21st Century

In this thoroughly revised and updated edition of The Activist’s Handbook, Randy Shaw’s hard-hitting guide to winning social change, the author brings the strategic and tactical guidance of the prior edition into the age of Obama.

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Randy Shaw
2013
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Immigration and Assimilation