http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/ A product of the Medill News Service, ImmHT provides a cross-national perspective on immigration, enhancing exposure to world affairs for Americans, providing public space to air compelling stories about diaspora populations, and serving as a repository of facts and figures in an arena of often misleading information. en Copyright 2008 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.5/ Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:53:14 -0600 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss BY PETER HOLDERNESS, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE Click here - not on the picture - to see Peter's photo essay Read Peter Holderness' parent story: Nuevo New Orleans: Latino Immigrants Remake the Crescent City http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2008/03/photo_essay_portraits_of_the_a.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2008/03/photo_essay_portraits_of_the_a.php Profiles Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:53:14 -0600 BY MATT RUSLING, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE After a decade long war, many of Sierra Leone's war wounded still slog through life, depending on handouts for survival. These two companion stories contrast the life of one amputee who has made it to the U.S. with the lives of his counterparts - disabled people who are left struggling for survival in his native Sierra Leone. [to companion story - Sierra Leone's amputees: Those left to beg] Photos by Matt Rusling and Florent Blanc On a basketball court in Rogers Park on the North side of Chicago, Victor Saidu, 32, looks up and http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2008/01/sierra_leones_amputees.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2008/01/sierra_leones_amputees.php Profiles Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:21:47 -0600 BY EMRE PEKER, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE Excerpted interview with Gunay Evinch, president of the Assembly of Turkish American Associations and Washington, D.C.-based attorney whose practice concentrates on matters relating to Turkey and the surrounding region. He is a second generation Turkish American. [to the lead story, "Turkish students discover individualism in the United States"] The Turkish lobby is getting more powerful as an increasing number of young Turks come to the U.S. for higher education and post-graduate work opportunities. Following the lead of their predecessors, a new generation of Turkish students is moving beyond traditional, passive roles and becoming more http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/08/by_emre_peker_medill_news.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/08/by_emre_peker_medill_news.php Profiles Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:33:49 -0600 BY FLORENT BLANC Excerpted interview with Amelia Wilson, attorney with Davidson & Schiller, LLC, an immigration law firm in Chicago http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/08/by_florent_blanc_excerpted_int.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/08/by_florent_blanc_excerpted_int.php Profiles Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:14:59 -0600 BY ALEXANDRA STEIGRAD, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE [this story was originally published by Reuters on April 29, 2007, and ran in dozens of news outlets around the world, including Washingtonpost.com, Boston.com and NYTimes.com] to the companion lead story "Muslim women in France 'regain' virginity in clinics" A 19-year-old Moroccan student in Paris, who asked to be called Amel, plans to have her hymen resewn before returning home this summer to marry a man who, according to local custom, expects her to be a virgin. This is her story, as told on the condition her identity not be revealed. "I dated a http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/07/i_have_to_do_this_moroccan_to.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/07/i_have_to_do_this_moroccan_to.php Profiles Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:31:59 -0600 BY KATHERINE LING, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE See related article: Love knows no boudaries - but U.S. immigration laws When Healy King meets someone new in Belfast, her American accent often leads to a simple question, "Oh, American are you, what the heck are you doing here?" Her answer is quite unexpected. America will not allow Healy to sponsor the woman she loves--a citizen of the United Kingdom--for a green card or citizenship. "My partner cannot get into America," the 32-year-old native of Washington D.C., said she has to explain. "They won't have her. So I have to stay here because http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/05/love_exiles_making_it_work_for.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/05/love_exiles_making_it_work_for.php Profiles Tue, 29 May 2007 20:11:34 -0600 BY FLORENT BLANC Excerpted interview with Aireale Rodgers Volunteer at the New Americans Initiative of the Illinois Council of Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR) Feb. 9, 2007 Q: How did you get involved in the New American Initiative? Aireale Rodgers: I started in high school about three years ago. I'm from Chicago from the southeast side, but I went to high school on the southwest side. A lot of the people who attended this high school were first generation Americans. Their parents are from Mexico. Just hearing their stories, I felt the need to do something. Since I'm African-American, it http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/02/going_out_of_your_way_to_help.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/02/going_out_of_your_way_to_help.php Profiles Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:35:31 -0600 BY FLORENT BLANC (See related story "From Africa to Europe Alone: Unaccompanied Minors in the Canary Islands" While almost every week European and African media have to announce the death of immigrants from the coast of Western Africa in their attempt to reach the shores of the Canary Islands, an initiative from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Dakar could bring hope to see a decline in these dramatic stories. Present in Dakar, the Senegalese capital, since 1976, this foundation which goal is to promote democracy and economic development, recently released a graphic novel, or bande dessinee in French, about the http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/02/educating_about_the_risks_of_e.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/02/educating_about_the_risks_of_e.php Profiles Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:55:11 -0600 BY JACK C. DOPPELT, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE When Ramadan Khattab left Ramallah for Paris in 1999, it was his first trip to Europe. The Palestinian's English was better than his French, though he'd spent only four years in school and learned no English there. He'd crossed borders before, usually to Jordan or to Israel. His stay in Israel had been his longest away from home; a stretch of 14 months in two Israeli prisons when he was 18 years old, for throwing stones at Israeli troops during the First Intifada. This time he was leaving Palestine for Europe, thanks to http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/02/from_ramallah_to_chatelet_2.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/02/from_ramallah_to_chatelet_2.php Profiles Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:00:20 -0600 BY KATHERINE GLOVER, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE After three years in the United States, 25-year-old Mohammed went back to his home in Baghdad, Iraq, to live with his mother and younger brother and sister. He thought with Saddam Hussein gone, everything would be better. He didn't realize the city had fallen into violent chaos and his U.S. ties would put his family in danger. This is the story of Mohammed's time in Iraq and his struggle to get his family safely to Syria. He has asked that his last name not be used for the safety of his family. To listen http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/02/the_iraqi_collaborator_katheri.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/02/the_iraqi_collaborator_katheri.php Profiles Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:54:07 -0600 http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/02/immigrant_mobilization_in_chic.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/02/immigrant_mobilization_in_chic.php Profiles Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:12:29 -0600 BY MAKIKO KITAMURA, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE Click on picture to enlarge Momar Ba is back where he began, with little more than a harrowing story to share. He is alive but still desperate. He has traveled from his native Senegal to Germany, Switzerland, Tunisia, and most recently, Spain's Canary Islands, each time hungry for work. The father of eight children, Ba saved up $1,200, selling used refrigerators to pay a smuggler. That allowed him to join about 20 other Senegalese in early September on an eight-day boat trip from Dakar to the Canary Islands. "I was willing to sacrifice my http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/02/post_11.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2007/02/post_11.php Profiles Thu, 08 Feb 2007 06:41:01 -0600 BY ERIN GOLDEN, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE Abdul-Malik is not a typical Irish Gaelic speaker. He isn't elderly, rosy-cheeked, or particularly fond of wool sweaters, and his Muslim faith prohibits him from stopping at the pub for a pint of Guinness. But for the past several weeks, the 32-year-old man has spent Saturday afternoons inside a classroom on Chicago's Northwest Side, repeating seemingly nonsensical words and navigating the sometimes confusing grammatical structure of the Irish language. And he isn't alone. The language that many think is dead -- or alive, but an ocean away in the sheep-dotted hills of rural Ireland http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2006/11/gaelic_reaches_beyond_irish_sh.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2006/11/gaelic_reaches_beyond_irish_sh.php Profiles Sun, 12 Nov 2006 06:22:07 -0600 BY ARIEL ALEXOVICH, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE [to the companion story, Liberty? Equality? Fraternity?: A Moroccan's place in the French order] Meryem Laachi's phone bills are astronomical. In an average week, the twenty-two-year-old fields calls from her parents and sister in Morocco, and from her brother in Minneapolis, all on the cell phone she bought near her university in France. Like her older siblings, Meryem left Casablanca to go to college in France, not so unusual since French is the business language of Morocco, a former French protectorate. Next year, however, she'll graduate. Meryem will decide whether to follow the footsteps http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2006/07/cocacola_red_wine_or_mint_tea.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2006/07/cocacola_red_wine_or_mint_tea.php Profiles Wed, 19 Jul 2006 07:12:51 -0600 BY NATASHA ROTSTEIN, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE [A version of this story also appeared in The Moscow Times on Sept. 20, 2006] [to the lead story, The Sound of Chechen music and related stories, A Chechen copes through Sambo fighting and Chechnya's war legacy] Every night during the first war in Chechnya this family slept in the same bed. Mother and father separated by their daughter and son. If a bomb hits the building, we'll die together, they reasoned. Nine years have passed since those dark days when they witnessed dogs eating people and snow black from debris. They buried 23 http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2006/06/natashaksstory.php http://www.immigrationhereandthere.org/2006/06/natashaksstory.php Profiles Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:55:52 -0600