The bonds that bind us here from all over the globe
the next six stories you will read here are very special. They are the stories of how six immigrant communities here are dealing with the U.S. Census.
What makes them so different?
It’s the bond that you will see that links them.
This work is the result of a unique collaboration of six Chicago area ethnic news media
With more than 1.7 million people of foreign birth living in Illinois, no issue except for immigration reform seems as critical as who gets counted and what the census will tell us about our immigrant communities.
The publications taking part are Extra (Hispanic), the Polish Daily News, 4NewsMedia (Polish), Pinoy Newsmagazine (Philippine), Future newspaper (Arab), the India Tribune, and the Korea Daily News.
Students at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism reported and wrote the stories, while the publishers and editors helped shape the process through their work with Community Media Workshop’s Ethnic News Media Project and Medill’s Immigrant Connect project. The work is supported by grants from The Chicago Community Trust’s Community News Matters project, the McCormick Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation.
These stories could have been told 30, 50 or 100 years ago, and about different groups of strangers.
But it is about today, and what matters for some of those who traveled far to call Chicago their new home.
They are immigrant stories, but really they are much more.
Le me know what you think.
Steve
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