
New England Public Radio and Amherst College’s Copeland Colloquium have collected the personal stories of nearly 30 people from around the world who have made their new home in western New England.

Traversing continents and cultures, the project illuminates the many pathways leading to our small corner of the globe, and explores the shared experience among those seeking a new life in a foreign land.
Now these stories have been gathered together in a beautifully designed book that showcases Beth Reynolds’s photographic portraits of each immigrant. Proceeds from this book go to scholarships for immigrant students at Holyoke Community College.
Explore Words In Transit
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The final episode of this series of "Words in Transit" features stories of immigrants from Bhutan and Slovenia and their work today to help other new…
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A woman from Ghana and a man from the Ivory Coast are grateful for the opportunities they’ve found here, but also feel that we can learn much from their…
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Educational and professional opportunities brought many to the U.S. On episode 13, we hear stories from a man from Spain and one from Argentina.
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An Indian and a Taiwanese woman reflect on life in both their native countries and in their adopted country.
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Third Culture Kid features stories of acclimation and loss from a Palestinian woman and an Irish woman.
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The second of two podcasts on immigrants that came to the U.S. without documentation. This episode, features the story of an immigrant from Colombia that…
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Family Reunion features stories of two young people who came to the United States to re-unite with their families. Western New England is home to…
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The story of two families, one from Syria and one from Sri Lanka that came to the United States to create new and better lives.
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Survival includes two stories from refugees from Burundi and the Congo that escaped violence in their homeland.
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We hear an essay on DACA from an undocumented immigrant profiled in episode 2.In this episode, Angelica Merino Monge who came to the U.S. from El Salvador…