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Vietnamese who live in-country refer to those in the diaspora as Viet kieu – sojourners, those that wander. I was the first in my family to return to Vietnam since we fled in 1975, on an ill-defined quest to claim what I could of my early childhood memories of Saigon, and the family history that my parents could not share with me growing up in America.
Facing danger is a way of life when you are nineteen, undocumented, and hitchhiking to school. But when it all began to feel too dark, Atash found hope bounding in unexpectedly.
I'm not sure what my mother expected when she first moved to America, but I can certainly tell you what she did not anticipate; raising four boys as a single mother living on welfare was not part of the plan. It became her reality.
Writer and poet Sarah Leamy explores the contours of deportation: the memories, fears, and identity caught in the web of what it means to be deported.
Poetry from Stephanie Niu: the invisibility of immigrant labor and what it means to be seen
Two women, whose lives had been shaped by violence and aggression, find a new geometry with each other as they bond over cups of tea.
“What is culture shock like, you want to know? It's like losing your parents for days at Disney World. It's like having an existential crisis as a kindergartner. It's like an earthquake when geography is your second parent.”
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!
American Dream: (verb)(1) To spend days walking and seeing things that remain best unsaid. A journey across the border.
When the refugee, literally and metaphorically, is bereft of language, home, friends, family, and hope, he or she can find in a library a substitute.
The poetry of Qi'Ang Meng: solitude and phantasmas.
”The lights going off, you and I / and foreigners climb into our beds / like exhausted warriors. Succulents of night”
Communicating what is truly happening in her country is one of Arantxa’s greatest goals —the corruption of a government’s dictatorship that wears the mask of democracy for the rest of the world to see.
An interview with playwright Catherine Filloux on turning your body into a compass
“The way it is” as a powerful blindfold; growing up in apartheid era Johannesburg
