Tag: immigrant

Ah, the infamous three words, “I love you.” For some, it’s a verbal affirmation as necessary as breathing; for others, a trite cliché. But in my household, it’s like hunting for a unicorn in the big city — highly unlikely but always deeply desired. G...

I’ve asked myself this without letting the question resonate with me. My fears of using the word immigrant when describing my father felt fake. But it’s true by meaning. My dad came to Canada when he was sixteen or eighteen or twenty, somewhere around there, and I did...

“Enough is enough! Any f** foreigner, anyone… just kill them… just f** kill them”, went the voice notes on far-right Whatsapp groups that mobilised and wreaked havoc on the city — on my city — last Thursday. My city — you ask? But who am I? I ...

I am an immigrant in Canada, I was born and raised in Monterrey, Mexico, and moved to Vancouver, Canada with my family when I was 17. There are about 8 million immigrants in Canada as of 2023 (according to statista.com). Immigrating to a new country is not easy, but a lot of people, includin...

From space, you might not be able to notice it but more humans are on the move right now than at any time since World War II. Most countries in the world are dealing with “moving humans” and most countries are trying to figure out where to put them and how to incorporate their talents...

Let’s start at the beginning: I was born in 2000’s Ukraine, nine years after the country’s longed-for independence. My family just made it out alive of the 90s — a tumultuous period of hyper-accelerated capitalism and banditism. Entire lives were crashed or evela...