A global home for story, learning, research, and support
I Am an Immigrant
Leaving, Belonging, Becoming.
You belong in the story before you appear in a statistic. This project brings together the Immigrant Cycle, family voices, open migration data, trusted support, current research, and a growing library of books.
Stories gathered with care · evidence shown with sources
281 million
People living outside their country of birth
3.6%
Share of the world population
122 million
Forcibly displaced people
$905 billion
Remittances sent home each year
What is happening now
A living research desk
United Nations News
World News in Brief: Winter aid for Gaza, West Bank; Haiti food production; migrant deaths at sea; human rights funding
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United Nations News
Money sent home by migrants nearly doubles in a decade
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United Nations News
Surge in displacement following fighting in southwest Yemen
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What lives here
Six ways into the same subject.
The mission
Built by someone who lived it, for everyone who is living it.
Jeff Magloire began migration at twelve. Dr. Lucas is the voice that emerged when achievement alone could no longer answer grief, rejection, and belonging. His story is not the whole project. It is the reason the project listens the way it does.
Who is Dr. LucasThe Relational Home Model
- 01Relational safety
- 02Cultural continuity
- 03Agency
- 04Material viability
- 05Future-generational possibility
Five conditions a person needs to be whole in a country they were not born in. The books, map, research, and support page each serve one of them.
From Volume One
“Every immigrant arrives in the middle of a sentence.”
I Am an Immigrant · Dr. Lucas
“The common ground in these pages is not sameness. It is humanity under movement.”
I Am an Immigrant · Dr. Lucas
“The border on the map matters. The border inside the self can last longer.”
I Am an Immigrant · Dr. Lucas
Volume One · 353 pages
Open it like a book, hear every page turn.
The whole book reads inside the website: a two page spread, physical page turn animation with paper sound, keyboard turning, a jump slider, and a download for offline reading.
