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…

As part of Immigrant Connect’s goal to bring together the personal stories that emerge from the multiple immigrant communities in…

Immigrants tend to worry about their kids. After all, for many, that’s why they came to the United States. Will the opportunities be there? Will they fit in? Will they fit in too well and abandon their roots?