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Features & analyses

The power of food in refugee integration

Written by Khatia Mikadze Across all cultures, food is about sharing, community, and hospitality; it is an international language that is not spoken, but rather tasted and felt. It’s not hard to understand how food can be used as a tool to help to build relationships around the world — in New York alone you can’t even walk down the street without passing restaurants serving food from countries like Cuba, Thailand, Brazil, France, Morocco and the Middle East. Food is...

Portraits & interviews

Tammy Lopez explores struggle and gratitude through poetry

Written by Khatia Mikadze “Dear younger me, Sometimes I wish I could have saved you from the horrors you have lived through. Most times I don’t. These experiences did not just make you stronger, but they made you me. Love, Older you” —Tammy Lopez in Rain for Under Watered Roses like You and I Tammy Lopez, a 23-year-old, Brooklyn-based, second generation immigrant woman, is making herself heard through poetry. In the preface of her debut book of poetry Rain for...

Culture & events / Features & analyses

“Home is Home”

Written by Khatia Mikadze “Homesickness is like any sickness, it will pass.” Or so says a pastor to a young immigrant woman from Ireland in Brooklyn, a newly released romantic drama based on Colm Tóibín’s novel that’s directed by John Crowley. It tells the story of a young girl who immigrates from a small Irish town to New York City in the 1950s and settles in Brooklyn, a hub for Irish immigrants at the time. The main character, Eilis Lacey,...

Features & analyses

When transgender women fall in the immigration crossfire

Written by Khatia Mikadze At New Women New Yorkers, we not only write about success stories of immigrant women in New York City, but we also raise awareness about challenges and important issues these women face. Those of you who read our blog would likely agree that gender is what makes this group “marginalized within marginalized,” as we often call it. But in this post, we touch on a group that’s marginalized even further: transgender immigrants who identify themselves as...