by kshea2025 | Jun 8, 2023 | Stories, Stories (2023)
My longstanding nanny, Sonia, is an immigrant from Ecuador. Ecuador is located in South America, next to Colombia and Peru. I consider Sonia to be a second mother to me, as she has watched over me since I was six months old. Sonia left Ecuador for the United States in...
by cackermann2025 | Jun 8, 2023 | Highlighted, Stories (2023)
The poem Mimesis by Fady Joudah illustrates the way people become refugees. The spider is the refugee, the web is their home, and the bike is most likely the region that the refugee lived in. An example could be a Syrian refugee, who lived in their home in Syria but...
by jluo2025 | Jun 8, 2023 | Featured, Stories, Stories (2023), Uncategorized
A country double the size of Germany, home to 135 ethnic groups, and going through the world’s longest civil war is a missing piece of the world. I have only heard of Myanmar once in my life, and it was merely glossed over as “a part of Southeast...
by tluo2026 | Jun 8, 2023 | Highlighted, Stories (2023)
Where are you from? Why did you choose to immigrate to America? What were some of your hopes that you believed you could achieve in America? https://students.pingry.org/refugeestories/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2023/06/Immigrant-interview-q1.m4a My father was born...
by jluo2025 | Jun 8, 2023 | Stories, Stories (2023), Uncategorized
Products from the local Asian food market are a staple of my Asian-American family’s fridge. It’s a place where we go every week to stock up on supplies of frozen baozi, udon, unique vegetables like water spinach, and many other groceries not found in a...
by ccaligiuri2026 | Jun 8, 2023 | Highlighted, Stories (2023)
I didn’t think this Spring Intensive course could get much better, but our trip to Paterson on Wednesday definitely proved me wrong! Despite the seemingly apocalyptic weather that forced many of us to wear masks, the Refugee Stories group persevered and was able to...
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