This ongoing collection brings together short video excerpts from interviews with young people in New York, Berlin, and other cities, reflecting on belonging, migration, family, discrimination, and everyday life.
Young people and immigrants are often spoken about in debates on migration, but rarely centered as experts and interpreters of their own lives. Their reflections show how policies, histories, and social norms are lived in everyday moments. The collection is intentionally transnational — not to flatten differences, but to surface shared questions across borders.
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My dad...is proud of being American and he is proud of being Haitian; he would hang the flags side by side. So when it came to language...I would speak to him in English after a while because he wanted me to do well in school... That was it then. We got to speak English, even though he is so proud [of his Haitian roots] because he cares about me and wants me to do well.
