The Living Archive

Stories from Young People Growing Up in Immigrant Families

This ongoing collection brings together short video excerpts from interviews with young people in New York, Berlin, and other cities, reflecting on belonging, migration, family, discrimination, and everyday life.

Young people and immigrants are often spoken about in debates on migration, but rarely centered as experts and interpreters of their own lives. Their reflections show how policies, histories, and social norms are lived in everyday moments. The collection is intentionally transnational — not to flatten differences, but to surface shared questions across borders.

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American-born Muslim Pakistani
Families & Relationships
Identity & Belonging

I will always be American. I will always be Pakistani. I will always be Muslim. And it does not have to be percentage-wise: I am this, this, and this... I am all three of those and they all play a whole part within me.

Hinna
, New York
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