This is a photograph I took in July 2025, on a mountainside of Fogo, Cape Verde. My grandparents, uncles, mom, and I immigrated from Cape Verde in 2007 when I was only two years old. We had to leave behind my father and my five other aunts and uncles to build a better life. My mom was only 22 at the time, and I cannot imagine how hard it must have been for her to raise me while being in a completely different country and working hard to bring her siblings to America. During my trip back to Cape Verde, I was able to see the house my mother and her siblings grew up in, and even the school she went to, and it was an amazing experience. 
 

– A.C

Relationship:  Im/migrant Im/migrant