Author: Shannen

Can you introduce yourself and tell us where you moved from, and what were your hopes for a new life here?

“My name is Ihssane Leckey. I moved from Meknes, Morocco – this was in 2005.” Click here to continue reading.

Can you start by introducing yourself, and telling us where you migrated from?

“My name is Camila Beiner. We moved from Venezuela in 2004 when I was five years old.” Click here to continue reading.

Can you start by introducing yourself, and telling us where you migrated from?

“My name is Ana Otero Marcos and I [moved] here to the U.S. in 1999 and I am originally from Spain.” Click here to continue reading.

“In October 2018, innovators from all around the world and from every industry gathered to present their work at Boston’s HUBweek. Brookline Interactive Group (BIG) and its project, the Public VR Lab, presented a Boston-only prototype of our Arrival: Immigration in Full Frame project in a booth at The HUB, HUBweek’s centralized festival site in City Hall Plaza.

Throughout HUBweek, visitors who attended our booth were invited to share their immigration stories in a studio we built at the event. These are some of the stories we documented.” Click here to continue reading.

Can you start by introducing yourself, and telling us where your family migrated from?

“My name is Susan O’Connor. All four of my grandparents came from Ireland. Three of them came from the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland, which is the westernmost part; it was one of the parts that preserved the Irish language. And the fourth grandparent came from County Cork. All of them came to the United States between 1901 and 1913.” Click here to continue reading.

Please introduce yourself and tell us where your family immigrated from. How old were you, and what were your parents’ hopes when they moved to the U.S.?

“So my name is Danute Wolosenko – they call me Donny – and I immigrated to the United States when I was almost four years old. My parents fled Lithuania during World War II [in 1941] and then they wound up in a refugee camp in British-occupied Germany, which is where I was born, and then we came to America in 1950.” Click here to continue reading.