Welcoming Week is an annual campaign and celebration to showcase the movement of communities striving to be more welcoming places for all, including immigrants. Launched in 2012 by Welcoming America and its members, Welcoming Week provides individuals and communities the opportunity to proclaim welcoming values through events and local initiatives that foster mutual understanding between immigrants and non-immigrants, as well as deeper belonging for all.
Rural Assembly is proud to be a Welcoming Week partner again this year.
Phillip Norman and Smmo Ozawa, Rural Assembly Welcoming + Inclusion Fellows, have been working for months to compile interviews and tell stories about migration in rural America.
Created using oral history interviews conducted all across the country, Routes to Roots offers the perspectives of descendants of ancestors who immigrated generations ago and of newcomers who come from as far and wide as Benin, the Philippines, and Venezuela, landing in small towns all across the U.S. — from the mountains and prairies of Colorado, to the buttes of North Dakota, the forests of Arkansas, and beyond.
