The Living Archive

Stories from Young People Growing Up in Immigrant Families

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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Prayer of a Non-Believer
Activism & Resistance
Discrimination & Inequity
Families & Relationships

Dear God: I would be a happy man if I had one dollar every day in my pocket, if I had one pair of shoes, if I had a couple of good pants and a couple of good shirts and if I had the ability to eat an entire chicken when I wanted to.

Yasmeen
, New York
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