“What do you like to touch?” the teacher asked Meletais Dagres. “I like to touch…money,” he replied in halting English. Dagres left Greece with his wife and children only five months ago. Friends who were already in the United States helped the family find a
Johnny Lo is 16, and he has already been working for three years as a waiter in New York City’s Chinatown. His parents left Hong Kong in 1970 so that their children could receive a free high school education in the United States, but Johnny
MIAMI, Fla. — “The American melting pot is no longer a melting pot,” says Rolando Amador, “but a stew in which you can taste all of the ingredients.” Amador, a Cuban refugee in his mid-forties, runs a neighborhood evening school in the heart of Miami’s
The history of American immigration, like most history, has generally been written by and about men. The immigrant woman tends to appear in two guises: the totally ethnocentric mainstay of the family, fighting any outside influences that might weaken her hold on her only domain,
