As part of its drive to highlight and celebrate the contributions of immigrants to American life, The Immigrant Magazine has come up with a list of 11 immigrants who served American society very well in 2021.
The enlisted immigrants – who represent different countries of origin – have helped Americans as changemakers in politics, voting rights, climate change, education, and technology; as medical providers, scientists and researchers; and as advocates for the underprivileged.
There is no doubt that immigrants and refugees from all across the world have enriched American society. They not only shaped American culture but also influenced social life by bringing their unique and diverse traditions to the United States.
The holiday traditions are no exception. Many of these traditions originated in regions outside of America; the Scottish New Year’s Eve song Auld Lang Syne, and the Swahili names of Kwanzaa candles are just two prime examples to mention.
Anna Fishbeyn, Founder and President of XOFeminist Productions and Anteriya Films (Russia/USA), is an award-winning star of stage and screen, a filmmaker, director, author, and actress. She is Russian/American.
Odilon Wafo came to the United States from the African country of Cameroon in 2010 looking for better opportunities for himself and his children.
He would find himself owning a business in New Kensington, a city that itself was striving for better.
“When I got here, I saw the city was a little bit depressed,” said Wafo, 54. “There wasn’t too much hope over here.”
In honor of this one-year anniversary, the California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly shared an update on the state’s vaccination milestones, Omicron, and the best steps Californians can continue to take to keep themselves and their loved ones safer this holiday season.
Hollywood star Vanessa Hudgens recently revealed that she dreams of one day developing a movie about her mother’s experience as a Filipino immigrant in the U.S.
Kneeling on the tile of the People’s Kitchen in South Philadelphia, Carmen Guerrero leaned her whole body into the stone.
This is how she had learned to make corn masa for tortillas with her mother in Mexico. And it is how she learned the craft from her grandmother, pressing down the midnight-blue corn with a crackle like the crunching of leaves, working the grain over and over with a rounded stone across a porous lava table called a metate. Wetted with the palm of her hand, the corn-masa dough took on the satisfying consistency of potter’s clay.
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Janek Ambros is a writer/producer/director and founder of Assembly Line Entertainment, a financing and production company formed in 2012 that has produced over a dozen films ranging from narrative films that have premiered at festivals such as Sundance and TIFF to documentaries and experimental films from around the globe.
Christopher Kühne was an award-winning screenwriter, fitness instructor, and translator from Mexico City. A story analyst, he developed a passion for writing and an unusual perspective of the world blending the intellectual, psychological, and philosophical aspects of the craft with commercial storytelling through modern mediums.
A group of conservatives and right-wing thinkers take President Joe Biden’s immigration policy reversals as a national security threat. For them, Biden’s decision to halt construction of the massive wall on the Southern border has undermined the U.S. external as well as internal security.