US Immigrant Stories

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07/04/2016

The night before Abdul was supposed to graduate high school, he attended an alumni and graduate bonfire at a beach in San Diego. As the night went on, he heard people exclaiming about five boys trying to bully a trans teenager, and stepped in to help, even though Abdul had only known of this classmate by name, in passing at school. Abdul defended his trans classmate saying he had as much of a right as everyone else to be there. This led him into a defensive altercation on behalf of himself and his trans friend. At the end of it, Abdul - a young Black Muslim man - was taken into custody by the police and accused of multiple felonies. The bullies responsible for initiating the altercation were not taken into custody.

Support Abdul Juma - Black Muslim Teen Charged for Defending Trans Friend Our dear sister Iman Habel’s family needs our support. Her little brother Abdul has been charged with multiple felonies for defending himself, and his trans friend from being bullied. Their family is incurring an exorbitant am...

03/22/2016

03/02/2016

"After three years of planning, an immigrant rights group in Jackson Heights is set to start a smartphone app for day laborers, a new digital tool with many uses: Workers will be able to rate employers (think Yelp or Uber), log their hours and wages, take pictures of job sites and help identify, down to the color and make of a car, employers with a history of withholding wages. They will also be able to send instant alerts to other workers. The advocacy group will safeguard the information and work with lawyers to negotiate payment.
“Presently, there is a lot of wage theft,” he said. “There has always been wage theft, and the truth is we’re going to put a stop to that.”
Previously, when workers were robbed of their wages, Mr. Trinidad said, they were unable to respond; because of their immigration status, they were often afraid to report the theft or did not know how.
The app has workers record their hours and wages, which are then saved in a profile. That profile, which lists a phone number but no name, is linked to the organization’s database. If a worker reports not being paid or being underpaid, NICE will contact the employer. If necessary, lawyers from the Urban Justice Center, who conduct monthly clinics at NICE, will help recover lost wages."

The Jornalero app was designed to help workers rate their employers, log their hours and wages, and identify bosses with a history of withholding wages.

01/27/2016

10/02/2015

"Vietnamese refugees who resettled in the US, who came by boats - under the biggest and last resettlement project - discuss the current Syrian refugee crisis."

09/09/2013

"It was very tough at first. Moving to a new country is like being born all over again. You are just like a baby. You can't speak, you can't move around, and you don't know the culture."

08/29/2013

The World's Global Nation editor Monica Campbell reports on a project in Philadelphia that documents the first memories immigrants have of their life in the United States. The project focuses specifically on the memories of South Asian immigrants, and some of their stories can be intimate, bitterswe...

08/23/2013

The world likes to think Jews look a particular way: they're all white (Ashkenaz), nerdy, JAPy, whatever. It's time break those stereotypes down.

08/23/2013

Now Available – Place Your Order Today: Indiebound | Amazon | Facebook | Twitter In the final years of the nineteenth century, small groups of Muslim peddlers arrived at Ellis Island every summer, bags heavy ...

08/21/2013

Anti-immigration laws, coupled with shared cultural values, brought this community to life. Almost 100 years later, the community is now retiring to the history books.