Immigrants

Diego Luna is a Mexican actor, producer and director. Both of his parents were passionate about the arts and film industry. His mother, Fiona Alexander, was a British costume designer who died in a car accident when Luna was just […]

 Jackie Chan is one very many famous immigrants to come to the United States in hopes of success and acceptance while staying true to his culture.  Background Jackie Chan was born in Chan Kong-sang, Hong Kong. Raised by parents who […]

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My name is Andrea Bazoin, and I am a translator. In high school, I used my then-limited Spanish to translate for the Central American immigrants who came to my checkout line at the grocery store in our small Nebraska town. Interpreting their “Cuanto cuesta?” was helpful, but I knew what I was really translating was a message of welcome.

Born in Havana, Cuba in November 1948, Ana Mendieta was a well-known performance artist throughout the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s. At age 12, she and her sister were forced to flee Cuba after her father joined an anti-Castro counter-revolutionary force, and the two siblings spent their first few weeks in the United States at a refugee camp in Florida until they were sent to an orphanage in Dubuque, Iowa — a location with a culture very different from the life Ana knew back in Cuba. She wouldn’t reunite with her mother and brother for five years and her father for another 18.

The Vancouver Asian Film Festival (VAFF) is an annual film festival held in Vancouver for about four or five days in November every year since 1996. It is a nonprofit organization that offers a platform for independent North American Asian […]

Immigration has always been an issue throughout the United States. Over the past quarter of a century the United States population has increased faster then the industrialized nation. Daily, new immigrants are migrating to the United States daily in search […]

Premio Lo Nuestro performances and winners!     On February 19, 2015 the city of Miami was lit on fire with flaming hot artists. The “Premio Lo Nuestro” (Latin music award ceremony) was taking place in the American Airlines Arena. […]