Re-imagining Migration
Preparing to build belonging among all students Our new research-based approach is designed to achieve this.
Re-imagining Migration addresses one of our nation’s most challenging issues today: the ways that polarization, prejudice, and hatred between people of different identities, backgrounds, and perspectives are dividing and damaging our communities and our nation. In the current environment, children of immigrants are often targets of overlapping prejudices as both members of immigrant families and as young people of color. These factors impair their academic, social, and civic opportunities for success, and imperil the prospects for our shared democracy. Our Vision
We believe that leveraging opportunities across the educational ecosystem to build bridges among young people in classrooms and communities is one of the most compelling and effective ways to change this destructive dynamic. Go to www.reimaginingmigration.org to learn more about how we do this work and explore our resources.
Daniel Valdez is the Deputy Director of Welcoming America.
His moving story is a reminder that identity is not something you choose once. It's something that grows with every place, every community, and every person who shapes you along the way.
"The ways in which movement and migration have helped me become the person that I am today. And I've learned so much from so many people that I've met from all walks of life."
As proud sponsors of Welcoming Week, we're honored to celebrate alongside Welcoming America and partners working to make every community and school a place where all students belong.
For resources on belonging in school visit our website https://reimaginingmigration.org/
Meet Yoli Casas...
When large numbers of newly arrived families were living in shelters three years ago, Yoli built something practical: a temporary school that picked kids up at 8 a.m. and kept them until 5 p.m., giving parents time to find jobs and giving kids their first look at what a U.S. school actually feels like.
Teachers noticed the difference. "The kids that would come, they would come more prepared to be in school than others because they were already aware."
Yoli's story is a reminder that welcoming students doesn't mean asking them to leave their culture at the door. It means preparing them, and their families, to belong.
As proud sponsors of Welcoming Week, we're honored to celebrate alongside Welcoming America and partners working to make every community and school a place where all students belong.
For resources on belonging in school visit our website https://reimaginingmigration.org/
Meet Mario Hernandez...
Mario's moving story began in Taxco de Alarcón, Guerrero, where economic need shaped his family and his community. A series of scholarships and second chances took him from Mexico City to London on his very first flight, changing the trajectory of his life.
"That institution opened my eyes because somebody believed in me."
As proud sponsors of Welcoming Week, we're honored to celebrate alongside Welcoming America and partners working to make every community and school a place where all students belong.
For resources on belonging in school visit our website https://reimaginingmigration.org/
09/22/2026
🧡 Happy Hispanic Heritage Month!
We have a full collection of resources to help educators bring the diversity of Hispanic and Latin identities into the classroom, organized around each stage of the Re-Imagining Migration Learning Arc. These are just 4 of them.
Stay tuned throughout the month as we highlight more resources from the collection.
🔗 Explore the full collection here: https://reimaginingmigration.org/resource-items/hispanic-heritage-month-resource-collection/
Part 2 of Eugenia's story...
When Eugenia Karkina and her family arrived in the U.S. from Ukraine four years ago, her five-year-old daughter spoke zero English. What helped her adjust? The school.
"My child, in her second grade, was helping other kids with speed reading, because she was doing it so good. Can you imagine? A foreign child who came here, who never spoke English, started helping other kids."
Eugenia's story is a reminder that when schools pay attention, when teachers meet students where they are, and when communities lean in, students don't just adjust. They lead.
As proud sponsors of Welcoming Week, we're honored to celebrate alongside Welcoming America and partners working to make every community and school a place where all students belong.
For resources on belonging in school visit our website https://reimaginingmigration.org/
09/18/2026
Next up in our series exploring RIM's U.S. History Primary Source Collection: Period 3, 1770s–1850s: Nation Building & Westward Expansion. 📚
The founding of the United States did not interrupt the migration story. It codified it, and immediately revealed its contradictions, from the Naturalization Act of 1790 to the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and the domestic slave trade.
Explore the full collection here: https://reimaginingmigration.org/resource-items/us-history-primary-source-collection/
Today, we're sharing one more voice from our conversations: Eugenia Karkina, a former United Nations field officer who came to the U.S. from Ukraine four years ago with her five-year-old daughter, who spoke zero English at the time.
Eugenia's story is a reminder of what schools can do when educators and teachers pay attention, when communities lean in, and when the door is open. "It not only helped her, it helped our whole family."
As proud sponsors of Welcoming Week, we're honored to celebrate alongside Welcoming America and partners working to make every community and school a place where all students belong.
For resources on belonging in school visit our website https://reimaginingmigration.org/
09/15/2026
Meet Puja, one of our 2025–26 Belonging Ecosystems Education Fellows: a Coordinator of Newcomer Supports at a Michigan Intermediate School District, and a self-described bridge builder.
Puja used her fellowship year to map belonging across her county – listening to students, teachers, families, and community leaders across nine districts – then launched a strength-based art-therapy pilot for refugee middle-school girls in partnership with a local resettlement agency and a university. The pilot paired trauma-informed practice with a project that invited students to reflect on the people and places that make them feel they belong.
Now she's embedding the fellowship's tools into county coaching, professional development, curriculum, and the district's "portrait of a graduate," so this work outlasts any single program year.
Today is Education Day during Welcoming Week!
Schools are where belonging begins. When students feel seen, supported, and welcomed, they thrive, and so do their communities. This Education Day, we headed to Denver to ask leaders, educators, and advocates one question: What role should schools play in building a welcoming community?
Here's what they told us. 💬
As proud sponsors of Welcoming Week, we're honored to celebrate alongside Welcoming America and partners working to make every community and school a place where all students belong.
09/12/2026
💭 How do you keep a place with you as you move through life?
These reflection prompts are designed to spark honest conversation in classrooms and communities, helping students, educators, and families explore migration, belonging, and the stories that shape us.
These prompts are inspired by the Re-Imagining Migration framework developed by Verónica Boix-Mansilla at Project Zero
🔗 Explore the full collection of reflection prompts here: https://reimaginingmigration.org/resource-items/reflection-prompts/
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