2024-03-03 15:00
by Miroslava Jovanovic, RAS – The International Serbian Organization (excerpt from the original work titled “The Heroic Circle of Serbian Sisters: A History”)
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Sharing the Stories and Cultural Impact of Women's Immigration and Resettlement Experiences
2024-02-12 18:45
by Sofia StojicPancevo, Serbia
I have always struggled with the notion of straight lines. The chronology of history, for example, as a straight line. “Progress” as a straight… Read More
2023-12-18 13:30
Joanne Tica interviewed Peter (Pete) Lalic on several occasions to learn more about his mother, Draga, a refugee, and immigrant to the United States. The Obrad Lalic family settled in… Read More
2023-11-19 03:15
by Carmen Garcia -Shushtari (Reprinted from The Everymom)
I remember the exact moment my first son was placed in my arms after giving birth. I felt a flood of emotions, including unc… Read More
2022-11-12 14:25
These are the immigration facts: Immigrants and immigration are good for our country, our communities, and our economy. Efforts to cut legal immigration – particularly in the… Read More
2022-10-16 21:39
by Natasha Tripney (reprinted from Catapult.Co)
“There’s nowhere in the world where I don’t have an accent. Nowhere where my voice fits.”
My mother
My moth… Read More
2022-10-09 18:00
Written by DUSHICA PROTIC; Edited by SANDRA RADOJA
Whoever you are—I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Tennessee Williams
It’s 55 years since we arrived i… Read More
2022-08-27 16:22
by Dilek Cindoglu (reprinted from The Conversation, 4/26/2022)
Russia’s war on Ukraine is, in many ways, a war on women. The fact that most women do not fight on the battlefiel… Read More
2022-08-21 03:58
by Marian L Smith
Note the following story, which is a perfect specimen of a peculiar quality of the American mind, one bearing no small relation to Independence Day:
I have a friend… Read More
2021-10-25 14:30
by Maya Salam (reprinted from the New York Times)
As a young girl, I emulated characters from shows like “Saved by the Bell” to act American. If only “Never Have I E… Read More
2021-10-11 14:31
Reprinted from The Bay State Banner (originally published on June 30, 2021)
BOSTON — In a sunny storefront not far from the Boston Harbor, Maria Vasco lingers off to the side o… Read More
2021-10-04 14:56
“If you’re a child of immigrants, or an immigrant yourself, what’s the one thing you wish someone knew about your personal experience with immigration?” Eight pe… Read More
2021-09-20 17:01
by Natasha Tripney (shared from Vittles, a food newsletter for modern times)
We sometimes forget how many seemingly immutable national cuisines are actually modern constructs, by virtue o… Read More
2021-09-13 13:45
By Milos Rastovic
Dream big, but work hard and trust me, anything is possible.Mina Barac
Many immigrants came to the United States with their talents and will in search of a better lif… Read More
2021-09-06 16:23
Reprinted from Britic, the British Serb magazine (5/29/2021)
Jovana Milosavljević shares her story with Novosti about how she weaved Serbian cuisine into the menu of a restaurant nea… Read More
2021-08-30 12:51
by Sofija Stefanovic (originally presented on SBS True Stories)
Forward: Sofija Stefanovic was born in the former Yugoslavia. Before the recent civil war, she would have called herself j… Read More
2021-08-23 13:08
by Milena Phoenix Djukic, as told to Joanne Tica
Milena
I’m an immigrant. My cousin tells me that I’m an immigrant 1.5[1] because I came here as a young child. I didn… Read More
2021-08-16 15:00
Between 1890 and 1924, over 20 million newcomers entered the United States, more than in any comparable period in our nation’s history. Fleeing poverty and oppression for a better, fre… Read More
2021-08-09 13:06
Give me your tired, your poorYour huddled masses yearning to breathe free …I lift my lamp beside the golden doorby Emma Lazurus, engraved on Statue of Liberty
They came from many d… Read More
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