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“Home is complicated”: Thoughts of returning from an undocumented Filipina

“We are talking about papers, here,” said activist and documentary filmmaker Jose Antonio Vargas. I heard this emphatic, simple statement when the Pulitzer-prize winning journalist formerly of the Washington Post spoke at the University of Chicago on May 9, 2012. The Filipino-born, California-raised Vargas entitled his June 2011, New York Times Magazine-published letter, My life … Continue reading “Home is complicated”: Thoughts of returning from an undocumented Filipina

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“Where are your papers?” Or, what you need to know about passports, visas & money.

Even though we live in the Digital Age and reach up to the Cloud with our smartphones and tablets without thinking twice, there are still some important hard-copy documents that we need when traveling. Continue reading ““Where are your papers?” Or, what you need to know about passports, visas & money.”