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What I Carried Here
A Workbook for the First Year After Arrival
The first year is not a beginning. It is a reckoning. This is where you write what you brought.
For the person in their first year after arrival in a new country — working through the gap between what immigration asked them to leave and what they brought with them that nobody can see
The Name It First Experience
You arrived. You are here. Everyone around you is focused on what's next — the job, the school, the documents, the logistics. Nobody is asking about what you left. What you know in your body but can't yet say in this language. What you carried across that has no name in the country you're in now. This workbook is for the first year — not the logistics of it, but the identity of it. What came with you. What you're grieving. What you're building. You leave with The Arrival Map — a named document of what you carried here and what you're becoming.
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Sample questions
- What did you bring with you that has no name in this country — something you know but can't yet explain?
- What have you lost in the first year that nobody around you seems to notice you've lost?
- What are you building here that is entirely new — something that didn't exist before you arrived?
Research basis
Suárez-Orozco (immigrant identity formation) / Berry (acculturation framework) / Espiritu (cultural carrying and diaspora) / Phinney (ethnic identity development) / Portes & Rumbaut (immigrant object narratives)
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