With President Obama’s executive order protecting certain children of illegal immigrants from deportation, and Republicans countering that the announcement is…

The United States resettles more refugees each year – about 80,000 – than all other nations combined. As one of…

Immigrant Connect and RefugeeLives present the first installment of our 2012 refugee stories. Please visit our companion site – Shifting…

A college education is often seen as the ticket; to financial stability, to a job, to self-respect. Immigrants come to…

Cities throughout the world celebrated World Refugee Day over one weekend in mid-June. …We tell the stories of 14 of them – Iraqi, Burmese, Bhutanese, Iranian and Somali – who now live and make ends meet in Chicago.

There’s more to home than where shoes come off and soup simmers. There’s the homeland – the place, the memory, the heritage – and the multiple meanings it has for immigrants.

Click above on the words Summer Snapshots 2010 Chicago buzzes in the summer. You feel it along the lakefront, on…