Migration Experience Quotes

I was eight when we came to Australia. It was five amazing weeks onboard this ship - it was the Northern Star.

When I was old enough, I was 21 years of age, I decided to come to America. I did it illegally, so I jumped the border. I didn't speak any English.

I was born in Osaka. I came to New York when I was three. I moved from New York to Florida when I was, like, eight or nine, and then I have been training in Florida since.

I came to England in 1962 as a very young bride, in my teens, hoping just to stay two years and go back.

My parents didn't feel that they had any choice but to leave the Dominican Republic. They did, however, choose to become Americans, and they lived American values every day.

I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.

My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories.

As a Latin man, obviously immigration has been a part of my culture for decades. [I] grew up understanding what you go through in order to come to this country and searching for that American dream.

I feel really strongly about immigration because my mom is... from Jamaica. She still has a green card here.

My maternal grandmother was the longest-lived of my grandparents. She migrated to Australia in her 80s and lived into her 90s. It was great that she got to be part of my adult life.

I was born in Costa Rica and we moved to America where it was a whole new world for me.

My life changed incredibly when I moved from Holland to England.

I had a very humane, what the great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova would probably have called 'vegetarian,' experience of migration. It involved planes and trains - the actual compartments of passenger trains - and not grueling walking and riding on the roofs of trains.

Coming to Germany is not easy. People might think it's easy because I'm doing so well, but it's not at all.

America changed my life, but I still think of home and working in Scotland was an important part of that.

I said that my parents had come from India. They thought America was a place where people were treated equally, and their kids would have an amazing life.

Well it's hard to bracket it like that because everyone always thinks you either go to America and you come back, fail or succeed, but it doesn't work like that.

I was actually born in Belgium and lived there until I was 11, then moved to Australia for a year, then moved to New Zealand, so I only lived there from when I was 12 to 18.

To write honestly and with conviction anything about the migration of birds, one should oneself have migrated. Somehow or other we should dehumanize ourselves, feel the feel of feathers on our body and wind in our wings, and finally know what it is to leave abundance and safety and daylight and yield to a compelling instinct, age-old, seeming at the time quite devoid of reason and object.

My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.

I was born in St. Louis and lived in Pittsburgh for a bit, before my family moved to Nigeria, where they're from. We lived there for three or four years and came back to the States when I was about ten. I realised that I'd gone from place to place not fitting in. The thing that helped me fit in when moving around and not having a ton of friends was that I could make art. That was the through-line.

My life is a suitcase. I am the traveling Mexican.