Overview

The Institute for Immigration Research is launching a new story-telling project called “Stories of Leaving and Belonging: Building Community through Listening” at Mason. It aims to emphasize the shared humanity and experience of migration by producing short multimedia stories about George Mason University students’ experiences with leaving a place to enter some place new (e.g., country, city, neighborhood or school). The goal is to strengthen community on campus by highlighting that migration is part and parcel of human experience, whether someone’s family has lived in the same country for generations or recently moved somewhere new.