Immigration From the past to the Present
If there is one thing about immigration that does not change, it must be work. As Muzaffar Chishtii, the director of Migration Policy Institute at New York University, said, “Immigrants come here to work, not for the quality of life.” The size of the immigrant population in the United States has been increasing every year. […]
The Chinatown in Brooklyn
Avenue U is a street located in Brooklyn, New York. Its cross streets were named by numbers from west to east, such as East 15th Street, where the Q train station is located. It starts from Bergen Avenue in Bergen Beach near Jamaica Bay and is essentially cut off by Stillwell Avenue, one block […]
The Lucky Charm
Eight years ago when my mom was packing up my luggage, I was sitting on the bed quietly and rolling my eyes around. For the past eleven years in China, I had been living with my mom. I listened to her on every trivial thing. Sometimes I felt that lost the sense of being […]
A Short Migration Story
My migration story is short. My whole family including me was born in Guang Dong, China. Back in the old days, both my parents were unemployed but sometimes my dad would get part time jobs to earn an income. Getting a job in China was difficult, especially when we did not have college degrees […]
