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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To be Black is Majority
Discrimination & Inequity
Race & Ethnicity

In the world, to be Black is majority. Which is what I am going to tell my children because I think it is absolutely necessary. ...Anything else would leave them with a minority mentality, and that is really what hurts the most.

Erwin
, New York
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