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Posts by Jane Chu
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From the Fall of Saigon to a Rising Success: A Story of Immigration and... ChocolateFor five-year-old Tan Nguyen, April 29, 1975, began no differently than any other day in his Saigon home.
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The Boy with the Golden-Guilder Buttons: How Herb Kohn’s Family Escaped from HollandBy the time Herb Kohn was born in 1938, his family had already moved from their homeland in Germany to escape increasing anti-Semitism.
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A Mariachi Opera? How Two Art Forms Combined to Celebrate the Immigrant StoryThe opera tells a story about a migrant worker from Michoacán in the United States, using the metaphor of migrating monarch butterflies.
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What We Keep: A Single Mother’s Escape from LaosWhen Dr. Palina Louangketh decided to launch the Idaho Museum of International Diaspora in Boise, she already envisioned how the nonprofit would serve the public.
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What We Carry: The Medals of Abiye AbebeHow would you connect to your father’s heritage if you never knew him at all?
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The Happiness Screen: A Korean Daughter’s Story of Pain and HopeWriter Maija Rhee Devine’s byung-poong folding screen has been crucial to her entire seventy-nine years of life.
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