Country Quote by Firoozeh Dumas

“Everyone over 50 in America feels like a refugee. In the Old America there were a lot of bad parents. There always are, because…

— Peggy Noonan

With immigrant parents, they've had to sacrifice so much to survive, and they're trying to preserve the culture they lost, so there are just…

— Rupi Kaur

“Immigrant parents, when they first move to North America, push towards whiteness, towards assimilation, to survive and thrive. Naturally, their children do too for…

— Scaachi Koul

Parents feel like immigrants in the country of the young.

— Margaret Mead

In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids…

— Joel Kinnaman

There's nothing more true in being a child of a diaspora, a child of immigrants. We're completely new to our parents. We're not something…

— Junot Diaz

No one wants for their child to become a refugee. It's an awful experience.

— Nguyen Viet Thang

Once refugee children are in the U.K., adapting to their new surroundings can be a lonely and demoralising experience.

— Katharine Viner

When you're an immigrant family, the upbringing, the mentality and the opportunities are all different.

— Kelvin Gastelum

One of the biggest things immigrant kids oftentimes feel is this big disparity between our parents and us. And our parents are staunch pragmatists,…

— Hasan Minhaj

Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.

— Irwin Redlener

“The attachment voids experienced by immigrant children are profound. The hardworking parents are focused on supporting their families economically and, unfamiliar with the language…

— Gabor Maté