On the Bias

"On the Bias" is a collection of writings that capture a variety of immigration experiences. Eventually, it will contain reflections on my own background, interviews with other immigrants, and a collection of vignettes about people who shared an aspect of their own experience with me.

If you would you like to share your own experiences as an immigrant, please email marijke@interfacility.com.

 

  
     

Essays

  
     
alblasserwaard 

Immigrant's Affliction
The village where I grew up was a green refuge in a vast urban zone punctured only here and there by meadows filled with ruminating cows and guarded by pollarded willows ... More

Hollow Land
The old polder country of my childhood has a distinctly bowl-like quality, as if the horizon curves up at the edges. The surface of the earth appears slightly concave, ringed round ... Hollow Land

Grout
I tell a story to a Dutch friend, about my mother's conviction that the "weather" would get in between the bathroom tiles if she ever allowed the window to be closed ... Grout

     


Vignettes

rusira 
I talk to friends and strangers about the experience of being an immigrant. These vignettes offer significant snippets from those conversations.
Rusira (West Africa)
Cab Driver (Eritrea)
Arnon (Israel)
Branco (Montenegro)
 
 
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