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Portraits & interviews

Infographics: Impact of immigrant women on the US labor force

This week, we launched our crowdfunding campaign Empowering Immigrant Women! Over the next four weeks, we will be raising funds to support our vision of empowering young immigrant women to get their first paying, fulfilling job in New York City, attain self-sufficiency and independence, and become agents of change in their communities. We’re celebrating our third year serving young immigrant women in New York City, through free workforce development and networking programs, as well as community building and storytelling. Join...

Portraits & interviews

Women immigrant LEADers

Written by Daria Kurdyukova On April 20, 8 women from 5 different countries completed the most recent installment of New Women New Yorkers’ LEAD program. Most of the women who participated in the program — myself included — came to the US only a few months ago. If you’ve ever moved to another country, you can imagine what challenges they are facing every day. The first word that my group learned and memorized was “empowered.” Yes, we are newly empowered...

Features & analyses

Deutschland in the US, Part IV: New York Germans today

Written by Sabrina Axster This is the fourth and final installment of our History of German Immigrants series. Read the first, second and third installments.  Today, there are only 18,657 German-born residents in NYC, according to a 2013 report on foreign-born populations in NYC published by the Department of City Planning. The report tracks the number of foreign-born residents in NYC since the 1970s. These numbers are remarkably low in comparison to previous numbers and given that the overall population of...

Features & analyses

Deutschland in the US, Part III: The migration of Jewish Germans

Written by Sabrina Axster This is the third installment of our History of German Immigrants series. Read the first and second installments.   One essential element of German migration to the US — and to NYC in particular — is that of Jewish Germans. Jewish immigration to America is traditionally divided into three categories: Sephardic, German, and Eastern European. But this doesn’t mean that there were no German Jews coming to the US during the periods of Sephardic or Eastern...