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I immigrated to the US when I was 5 years old. 19 years later, I became a citizen. This is what the arduous process -- which cost thousands of dollars, [...]

'Miss ... Khan?' The customs official stops, looks up at me, looks back down at my passport, and hesitates. That's always how it starts. I am an Australian citizen of [...]

Ruth is one of thousands of 'new' Swiss immigrants, people from Africa, Asia and South America who are challenging Europeans to rethink their ideas about diversity and racial and religious [...]

Editor's Note: While this is a fictional story, the following is based on facts about immigrants' experiences at Ellis Island and the photos are of real immigrants or scenes at […]

"DON'T BOTHER ASKING," said my father before removing the tea towel from a hunched shape on his kitchen table. "This recipe dies with me." With a flourish I suspected he'd […]

As a native of Kuwait, Ghassan M. Shihab, 39, knows what it is like to come to the United States as a student and then try to make a living [...]

The astonishing stories of two families who were willing to do almost anything to keep their children safe from tyranny What day is today?" the teacher asks slowly, tossing a […]

FIFTY YEARS AGO, O, in the early morning of 23rd July 1949, I stood on the deck of the S.S. Continental and had my first glimpse of Sydney Harbour. I [...]

A narrative about an encounter with a British canteen worker, an immigrant from Jamaica, is presented. The worker, a black woman who had lived in the UK for only six weeks, was dazed and lonely but tried hard not to show it. Like many immigrants, she had come to the UK to escape poverty and seek opportunity.