The EZ Band’s blend of norteña music and Top 40 hits offers some Americans a way to connect with their parents’ culture and exposes others to a new sound.
Category: Immigration and Emigration
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Help! I Was Denied Boarding on a Cruise Despite Meeting U.S. Travel Requirements
A Chinese scientist, an Egyptian grandmother and a Bangladeshi woman from Queens were all turned away and refused a refund despite having the U.S. government’s permission — and documents — to travel.
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China Is Suffering a Brain Drain. The U.S. Isn’t Exploiting It.
China’s brightest minds, including tech professionals, are emigrating, but many are not heading to America. We spoke to them to ask why.
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La saga de los Jacuzzi, la familia detrás de las tinas de hidromasaje
Una historia de inmigrantes, del sueño americano y el aparato que definió la sensualidad burguesa.
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‘A Million Miles Away’ Review: From the Fields to Outer Space
In this biopic, a boy from a family of migrant farm workers watches the moon landing in 1969, which ignites his desire to be an astronaut.
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Ecuavoley, Anyone? Sport of Ecuador Thrives in Shadow of US Open.
Just outside the U.S. Open grounds, Queens locals, many of them immigrants from Ecuador, play a volleyball-like sport imported from their country that brings the community together.
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Salí del clóset y pasé al jardín de mi madre
Ser gay no estaba entre las cosas que mi madre jamaiquina esperaba de mi vida en Estados Unidos. Entonces, ¿cómo llegaría a florecer?
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Washington Island, a Speck of Old Iceland in Wisconsin
You can still find traces of Nordic history in the trails and trees of tiny Washington Island, Wis. And take a dip while you’re there — if you dare.
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Love Letter: ‘Don’t cry. You’re an American.’
Before her mother was deported, a writer needed to share who she really was.
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Out of the Closet and Into the Garden
My Jamaican mother’s hopes for life in America did not include me being gay. So how would I ever bloom?
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Mi sexto lenguaje del amor: la ‘intimidad de WhatsApp’
Para mi familia siria, dispersa por la guerra, un chat grupal —repleto de videos tontos y fotos a menudo vergonzosas— lo es todo.