Seattle: My Second Home – Muditha Dharmasiri – Washington, USA 2016
I was a complete stranger when I knocked on the house that I booked for my stay in Seattle and Julie opened the door and welcomed me. It was the first time I left Sri Lanka and stayed all by myself in a whole different country. Next morning, I sat with Julie, and she told […]
Maria Xenia Wells Zevelechi – USA 1955 & Italy 1991
For my last two years at the University of Pisa, a professor from the University of Texas, Dr. Warren Roberts was a Fulbright Exchange Professor at the University of Pisa. He liked my work and asked me to come back to the University of Texas upon completion of my doctorate. Which I did, even though […]
Maeve Moynihan – Spain 2017
As populist political parties and large-scale decisions like Brexit threaten the idea of open and accepting societies, the freedom to migrate has become increasingly restricted. The increased securitization of borders around the world suggests that many nations wish to exclude the freedom to migrate from their story. As a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) in […]