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Julia Perissinoto, Strategic Planner. Re-Located from Brazil in 2011.

Julia Perissinoto

I was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1983. My father’s family is from Portugal. My mother is from Italy. I always wanted to live in Europe, but moved to the United States in 2011. I work in the advertising arena, and came to New York City for work. It is likely that I will stay for something else.

I feel especially attracted to the constantly experience of how Manhattan affects a large portion of us, the ‘successful’ immigrants. This island is powerful, bitter and genius all at the same time. It breaks and bonds us together. We are heroes in our countries. We are validity dates and stamps here. We must move faster to get ahead. We allow the city to get under our skin so we can expedite. Sometimes we tremble. We hold tight, but end up losing some roots and values here and there. But we must continue. We toss and turn at night and eventually get tired of justifying who we are during the day. Eventually.

I'm likely to stay. Only for the day that we can legitimize our potential. An awakening.

#relocationstories #brazilian #awakening #nycstories

Samantha McLane Alejos, Lawyer. Re-Located from Mexico in 2007

#lawyer #womensright #wall #latinimmigrant #mexican #feminist

#dance #celtic #window #danceshoes #dyptic #latinimmigrant #mexican

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Samantha McLane Alejos

When people ask if it is difficult to live in a different country other than your "own", I respond yes, of course; when they also ask if I will return to Mexico, my response is maybe or I don't know. Why? Because, personally, I have found the immigrant experience very rewarding. I was born in a land of contrasts, a land where beauty and ugliness constantly clash, where injustice and struggle interact day by day; a land that I will never keep out of my head.

I studied law to understand these contrasts and it has been a long journey, one that has led me to be in this northern land. After twenty-eight years of living in Mexico, my partner and I moved to the United States, not to flee from despair, rather to find a place to ask more questions. Here, I have found that I am not the only one, there are more Samanthas asking questions, getting answers.

I am currently studying my Masters in Law and I work at a reproductive rights organization. This is what makes my experience so rewarding, because I am not only a lawyer, I am also a Latina, a dancer, a dreamer, a feminist, a human. Yes, maybe I will come back to Mexico, but needed to see it from the outside.

#lawyer #womensrights #dance #feminist #latinimmigrant #mexican #immigrationstory #relocationstory

Olivie Ponce, artist. Re-Located from Mexico in 2007.

#paintingtube #loft #latinimmigrant #mexican #artist #olivieponce #dyptic #relocation

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Olivie Ponce

I was born in Mexico City and trained in fine arts at the Universidad de Guanajuato. My work has been shown extensively in Mexico where I was the recipient of two National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA) awards. After moving to New York in 2007, I rapidly integrated into the local art scene and exhibited in numerous group shows. My first solo gallery show in New York was Extra-Estetica. I paint principally in a mode I refer to as “abstract landscape.” Sublime, butte-like masses create an illusory dreamscape, drawing the viewer into imaginary vistas. To heighten the effect of unreality, I often limit my palette to subtle gradations of black and white. I tend to work on a large scale with smaller works on paper. My last show was at Storefront Ten Eyck in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

http://olivieponce.com/

#bushwick #artist #mexicanartist #immigrant #nyartist #relocationstories

Johana Angarita, M.D. Re-Located from Colombia in 1995

#m.d.#latinimmigrant #stethoscope #dyptic #colombian #relocationstories

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Johana Angarita

My dad moved to NY from Bogota, when I was 7. My youngest sister was only 4 at the time; my dad used to play hide and seek with her when he got back from work, it took her a couple of months to stop hiding, waiting for dad to come home to look for her under the bed or any random place in the house. I guess his sacrifice paid off, we moved to NY when I was 16, and both my sisters and I were able to pursue an education. Culture shock as people may call it, was something I experience right away, and I don’t think I’ll ever be able to fit in perfectly anyway. Most of my friends come from somewhere else, we relate that way. That is probably why I enjoy working in Queens, one of the most culturally diverse places in the USA. I think I have patients from every continent.

In a way the place where you come from is something that defines you as person so does your profession, especially if you become a doctor. But should it be that way, who am I if I stopped being a Colombian, a doctor, a wife, a mother, an immigrant? All of these make me happy, but nothing has made me happier that becoming a mother and that on itself is something I would like to assume every woman who is a mom would say. We are not so different after all.

#m.d #immigrant #relocationstories #colombian #physician

Lucas Licari, Architect. Re-Located from Argentina in 2006

#cornelluniversity #architect #immigrant #relocationstories #dyptic #building #blackandwhitestories

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