City Makers: New Hometowns
Profiles of America’s immigrant communities
To Be Both Midwestern and Hmong
Decades after they fought for the U.S. and took refuge in Wisconsin, immigrants and their children still struggle for acceptance.
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Maria-Pia Negro Chin Why Paterson, New Jersey, Is Famous in Lima, Peru
Thousands of Peruvian emigrants have turned a city of 150,000 into the unofficial capital of their home country’s diaspora.
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Ted Eytan / Flickr Solomon's Search
He arrived in Washington, D.C., in 1981. In the decades that followed, the strain of transposing a life from one continent to another grew more and more painful.
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Samiran Sarkar / Shutterstock / Kara Gordon / ... Trading Persian Tea for Seattle Coffee
Seattle’s diverse Iranian American community has integrated into the city while maintaining its cultural identity.
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Dave Kolapck / AP My Fargo
A writer reflects on her experience growing up as one of the very few Asian Americans in her hometown in North Dakota.
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Courtesy of BAPS Houston South Asia in South Texas
An Indian and Pakistani neighborhood of Houston shows what it’s like for a new generation to take over an immigrant community.
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Zak Bickel / The Atlantic Why Soviet Refugees Aren't Buying Sanders's Socialism
The ultra-conservative views of many in the Russian Jewish community are driven by memories of life in the USSR.
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Chris McCormick Armenian Exceptionalism
In Glendale, California, thousands of Armenians have built homes, business, and families. As the community assimilates, one writer asks, what makes a people, a people?
