On Election Day, the Feet In 2 Worlds team spread out to polling places in immigrant and ethnic neighborhoods across the U.S. to report on how foreign-born voters experienced this historic day. Our contributors covered voting in battleground states Florida and…
DETROIT – Martina Guzman, FI2W reporter Detroiters cheered in bars, honked their horns and literally danced in the streets when Barack Obama became the president-elect. Detroit is considered a black city: the population is more than eighty percent African American….
Through Election Day, Feet in 2 Worlds reporter Aswini Anburajan interviewed voters from very different origins. She talked to a Polish first-time voter in Harlem, and then she interviewed two Bangladeshi men and an Argentinean woman in Jackson Heights, Queens….
Eduardo A. de Oliveira, a Brazilian-born reporter for New England Ethnic News and a Feet in 2 Worlds contributor, appeared this morning on The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC, New York Public Radio, to describe the scene in the battleground…
GREENPOINT, NY – Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska, Polish Daily News and FI2W reporter A long line of voters crowded around P.S. 34 on Norman Avenue in Greenpoint, a predominantly Polish neighborhood in Brooklyn. The line was at times so long –in the…
JACKSON HEIGHTS, NY – Aswini Anburajan, FI2W reporter Only in New York City, and especially only in Queens, would this reporter find herself surrounded by three loqacious voters of such different origins — two Bangladeshi men and one Argentinean woman…
DETROIT – Martina Guzman, FI2W reporter John McDowell sat in his lawn chair at the Kemeny voting center in Detroit. He passed out Obama literature and smiled at the young people who came to vote. “I’m one of the ones…
CHICAGO – Pilar Marrero, La Opinión columnist and FI2W contributor After early morning lines in most locations, where people voted before heading out to work, a steady stream of voters showed up at polling stations across this city where Barack Obama…
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Macollvie Jean-Francois, Sun Sentinel reporter. Something had to be done with those boys. As their parents voted inside a local church, the boys, about seven of them, ran around the parking lot and in an adjacent…
NEW YORK – Aswini Anburajan, FI2W reporter Throughout New York City there have been reports that voters have been asked to show identification, in violation of New York election law. Laura Matthews, a second year law student at the City…