He looked at me, with a smile on his face, and said in perfect Croatian: Vaša viza je odobrena [You have been approved].
Continue reading...21st Century Schizoid Man: Old Stories Meet the Modern World
Frane Karabatic‘I will be back in the autumn’ – a Romanian in the UK (An Immigrant Story)
Alexandra Bulat
Alternate Histories: An Immigrant Story
Felix R. Stetsenko
I’m writing this essay rather than hoisting a Kalashnikov for a simple reason: my parents’ determination to leave the Soviet Union.
Continue reading...The Imponderabilia of Immigrant Life: An Immigrant Story
Veronica Davidov
I think of immigration in my subsequent, adult life, not as a determinant but something akin to the zodiac sign if one believes in astrology.
Continue reading...Marks and Angles: An Immigrant Story
Felix R. Stetsenko
Sailing from Byzantium: An Immigrant Story
Ekaterina Chelpanova
My field, Byzantine studies, became almost extinct, my advisor, the last professor in the field in my city, fell ill and lost interest in continuing her work in the field.
Continue reading...Solidarity and Shelter: An Immigrant Story
Agnes Sekowski
She hid her university diploma, which she would need to start a new life, in a sealed stationary package.
Continue reading...Roaming Academics: An Immigrant Story
Elizabeth (Betty) Banks
People ask me all the time where I will, or want to live when I finish my PhD, as if I am supposed to be able to answer that question.
Continue reading...Passover 1934: An American Jewish Immigrant Story
Joan Neuberger
Running from the Reds: An Immigrant Story
George Kalbouss
This was my heritage: cultured, formerly wealthy Russians trying to make it in New York.
Continue reading...December 1989: An Immigrant Story
Masha Kisel
One could find bards at every immigrant gathering singing The Tales of What Could Go Wrong At the Interview.
Continue reading...The Journey to Amerika: An Immigrant Story
Mikhail Lipyanskiy
Lost Diamonds, an Immigrant Story
Emma Lieber
The Ballad of Sonya and Louie: An Immigrant Story
Eliot Borenstein
I had thought my family was Russian, but then when I went to college, I found out we were just Jews.
Continue reading...Try a Little Tenderness: An Immigrant Story
Ani Kokobobo
All I have left from the first 14 years of my life is an envelope of old photographs.
Continue reading...An Immigrant’s Daughter
Brigid O'Keeffe
Of Course, We Didn’t Know: An Immigrant Story
Boris Wolfson
Immigrant Stories: A New Rubric at All the Russias
Ani Kokobobo
It seems like a good time to take pride in the diverse immigrant roots of our field by gathering immigrant stories.
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