Immigrant Report is an online publication celebrating the immigrants of this country through their stories, art, and ideas.
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As an iconic Austin restaurant closes, the staff and patrons gather to reflect on a long history of family, legacy, and the American Dream - and to eat!
An interview with playwright Catherine Filloux on turning your body into a compass
With their parents facing deportation and an uncertain future looming, the children of TPS families have taken to the stage to share their stories.
Her paintings are tapestries woven of all these stories; deeply personal, collective, intimate and vast. The paintings of Ana Maria Velasco are creating universes. An interview with the artist.
Thanks to the internet, artists are able to collaborate across continents to tell the story of just how far that distance seems in the eyes of a new immigrant. A conversation with webseries creator Deniz Khateri
Like waking from a dream, Alba Páramo’s printmaking traces deep currents of symbolism through Tibetan art, pre-Columbian mythology, and her own life to pull you into a world at once familiar and strange.
What happens when a theater goes further than site-specific? When it embraces the ecology, the history, and the people you may get something akin to Carlos Uriona’s Double Edge Theater.
“I notice that when I speak in my respective languages, I almost transform in tone and personhood.” An interview with the book writer of the bilingual musical Azul Otra Vez (Blue, Revisited)
“Who is she? Look longer. What is she thinking? Look deeper. The enigmatic oil paintings of New York-based artist Aya Ogasawara…” An Interview
“We think of music as the third language in this piece….” Jacinta Clusellas’s music and reflections on the creation of Azul Otra Vez.
Changing expectations through art: portraits and interviews with 16 immigrant women in New York: “You can never imagine where these women are coming from and what their stories are.”
“Language also contains culture; there are things that cannot be translated…” A conversation with Tatiana Pandiani on creating multilingual theater.
"These small spaces felt like home to me, and the stories I heard from the people in them drew me in even more."
An interview: Nur Bepary does not need English to run his successful auto-repair shop. Instead he has tapped into the diversity of Queens with a staff and loyal customers from around the world who have all made NYC home.
The continuing story of Betty Roque: "My arrival to this country was an odyssey completely different from what I imagined."
A portrait series: "I wanted my project to be a means of looking more deeply into our definition and assumptions about the term immigrant."
An inspiring relative sits down with Christine Bolaños to recount her harrowing past in El Salvador and her determination to start anew.
Khalid’s eyebrows fly up to meet the brim of his checked flatcap. “No, no we don’t want to talk about anything.” He throws his hands up in mock dismay, but I think he’s got actual suspicions. This has been my bodega since middle school...
