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While Ellis Island is now a museum and steamships no longer teem with steerage passengers hoping for a new life, people continue to immigrate to the United States from nations all over the world.  From 2000-2007, over ten million immigrants entered the United States, representing in sheer numbers the highest quantity of new arrivals in any seven-year period of American history.  The motivations of today's immigrants are as varied as those of their predecessors: some pursue adventure or education, whereas others seek asylum, fleeing economic hardship or persecution in their homeland.  Every immigrant posesses a unique tale, but each story is also part of a larger narrative, threaded together by the shared experience of relocating to an unknown country.

What does it mean to be an immigrant today?  Six recent immigrants chronicled their tales for Journey Stories, and these rich oral histories provide a glimpse into both the heartache and hope of moving to a new land.