Category: Features & analyses
The health crisis keeps reshaping life in New York. Beyond the headlines, members of our community share their first-person accounts on navigating the outbreak and life post-pandemic. Today, meet Elizabeth, from Australia. She reflects on the wide array of emotions she has felt, from the stay at home order in March to the reopening in late July Now that we have reached summer, the days have grown longer, the streets have become busier, and stores and other businesses are continuing...
Learn the basics of healthy finances to set yourself up for success Written by Anamaria Ferferi We know that setting yourself up for success in a new country is not a simple fill-in-the-blank form. Establishing yourself is a long process, one that involves making new connections, finding a job, finding housing and building a financial cushion. As an immigrant woman, you may be doing this not just for yourself but also for your family. Financial stability is a crucial pillar...
In the most diverse city in the US, intercultural communication reflects and enhances the richness of our communities. Written by Hannah Wood Four years of living and working in Rwanda, a small country in East Africa, has inspired me, an American woman, to believe that a person’s communication style, or choice of language, is a valuable piece of one’s story. Diversity, languages, and accents should be celebrated, not stigmatized. Back in the US, I find myself carefully examining intercultural...
Written by Lumi Zogaj Earlier this month, Attorney General Jeff Sessions reversed a ruling that granted asylum to a Salvadoran woman on the basis of domestic violence. In 2016, The Board of Immigration Appeals had found that the woman qualified for asylum on the grounds of her membership to a particular social group, because married women in El Salvador cannot leave their relationship and the government fails to protect them. Sessions’ decision not only narrowed the use of the...
