Personal stories from immigrants about their experiences, struggles, successes, and how they’ve adjusted to new cultures. These could be short written pieces, or you could adapt interviews into text.
Someone once said to me, “Oh, you’re that rich, huh?” and I wanted the floor to open up and swallow me. It happened not long after I moved to Germany. I was out with colleagues,
“Mum, I needed that.” My youngest said this to me in the car, and I wasn’t expecting it. I’d just picked her and her sister up from a casual meetup with Start With a Friend
Abir tells me about the second week like she’s back in that moment when everything changed. “The second week actually was when I discovered that I am alone in a country. I don’t know no
Before Suaad made phone calls in Germany, she’d open Google Translate and literally write down the entire conversation like a script: what she needed to say, what they might ask, how she’d respond. That’s what
My daughter asked me today if I regret leaving Nigeria. Not in those exact words. She didn’t come out and ask directly. Instead, she started talking about a friend who just moved to the UK,
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When I first heard about the “Picnic of Open Blankets” (Picknick der offenen Decken), organized by Freie Bande in the city of Bonn, I thought, Okay… sounds nice. Probably just a group of people sitting
Picture this: it’s a warm, sunny day at the park. Kids are running around, laughing, just being kids. Then you notice a little boy, maybe 3 or 4 years old, pick up a toy that
