On this page, you can explore our personal experiences with immigration and integration. You will see the great diversity in backgrounds and immigration experiences that characterize our class, as well as the many similarities that unite us all as immigrants or the descendants of immigrants. Our stories address the reasons for why our families or our ancestors migrated to the United States, the difficulties we and our families faced with learning the English language, and our experiences with integrating into U.S. society, including finding jobs and getting involved with civic or political organizations. Ultimately, the setbacks in the beginning of our narratives turn to triumph as we, much like the immigrants who came generations earlier, succeed in overcoming obstacles and become true New Yorkers.
The main theme of our class was learning about the immigration and integration experiences of various immigrant nationality groups that live in New York City, and these personal narratives bring the content of the course to life by connecting it to our own individual heritage.
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To read the class migration histories, click here, or select any of the Migration Histories below.
- Alyssa Alicino, Little Italy’s Big Trip to the United States
- Brandon Baksh, From South America to the Big Apple
- Ru Xiao Chen, Poverty Caused Migration
- Belinda Chiu, Living the Life My Parents Didn’t Have
- Becca Glickman, From Poland, and the Rest of Europe
- Elisabeth Greenberg, Those Who Made Me American
- Doris Hu, America to China and then Back to America
- Peky Huang, Immigrated and (Somewhat) Assimilated
- Toby Joseph, India to NYC: Shifting Lifestyles
- Haesol Jun, Pursuing the American Dream
- Nika Kartvelishvili, An Immigrant Twice
- Farrukh Khan, Barely an Immigrant
- Holly Kiang, From Farm to Freedom
- Julian Kipnis, Refugee’s Big Move to the Land of the Free
- Kar Yi Lim, From China to Malaysia to New York and Back
- Yang Lin, Landing on the Opposite Side of the World
- Cait McCarthy, Unrooted
- Sofya Moshkovich, This Is Just the Beginning
- Mariya Tuchinskaya, Reminiscence on the Past: My Family Journey from Kiev to New York City
- Ying Zhang, Mother Makes Everything Possible
