“What is interesting is how my family and friends back home perceive my accent now: They find I have an accent and make fun of the way I speak English but sometimes I speak it if I were speaking French, non? 🙂 “ My name is Bobbi … Continue reading Happy Hour: Americans in France
Image: Shiny Coat Watch by Trojan_Llama in Flickr CC KC: You are an American citizen, Marta, aren’t you? ME: Yes I am. The minute I could become a citizen, I did. And have voted in every election. I didn’t want to be a citizen of El Salvador … Continue reading Her
Image: Shiny Coat Watch by Trojan_Llama in FlickrCC AKC: Why did you go to the U.S? TE: Why did I go to the U.S.? I wanted to go to the US since I was a kid. I was about twelve, thirteen, and I was always kind … Continue reading Him
Photo: Isabel Ingram’s 1927 passport by Ken Mayer Flickr CC No. 12345: How do you experience in your work or from your personal experience the melting pot? The idea that America is a melting pot and is multicultural per nature? Cause I’m studying the European context … Continue reading All migrants appearing in this work are real. But any resemblance to real visa numbers, newly issued or expired, is purely coincidental.
Meet X., a migrant to the US and Switzerland, but another ex-pat in West Africa AKC: When you hear the term “migrant”, do you consider yourself a migrant at all? X: When I hear the term migrant, if it applies to me, if I … Continue reading You have lived in North America and Europe. How can you say that you are against eurocentrism?
Meet tgme, a migrant citizen. For first-generation migrants (I hate the term, but in the European context, that is unfortunately needed), the acquisition of linguistic skills is one of the biggest challenges they will face from the moment they enter the country. Speaking with … Continue reading Who is a migrant?
Economic Migrants 