Alaina Miller's guest appearances

Alaina Miller

Migratory Patterns

Hana Baba

Liam Cunningham

Virginia Johnson

Uncle Buck

Brendan Davis

Shannon Martin

Marina Barayeva

Josh Gardner

Daphne Cheng

Nancy Zhou

Sonia Jaeger

Richard Robinson

Michelle Ibarra

Sarah Peel

Katy Sewall

OwlTail

While the small town in Michigan where she grew up is the place that she goes back to whenever she "needs a safe haven," Alaina Miller doesn't think of it as "Home" anymore. Not since she set off for school in Chicago- and especially not since she spent the last year studying abroad as part of the Ricci Scholars program at Loyola College. What's driven her constant shifts to bigger, newer locales has been the vast diversity and different ways of thinking that she's encountered at every step of her journey. She went off to college knowing that she wanted to travel internationally and saw the Ricci Scholars' program's destinations of Rome and Beijing as a natural evolution, with each stop being a jumping off point to something ever-more foreign. Her project to study migrant housing has opened her eyes to a world of possibilities, and it's been incredibly fulfilling, but she realizes that she's starting to move outside of the experience of her traditional group of friends, and that she may find herself facing the same challenge that many who have spent time overseas face- discovering that they need to connect with different kinds of people than they did before they left.Learn more about the Ricci Scholars program at Loyola University here: https://www.luc.edu/ricci/index.shtml Get in touch with comments, suggestions or interview recommendations: Twitter: @zax2000  eMail: mike.shaw@migrationmedia.net  Check out all of the shows in the Migration Media network on the web (www.migrationmedia.net) and please take a moment to "Like" us and leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Podbean or wherever you get your podcasts... and subscribe!

While the small town in Michigan where she grew up is the place that she goes back to whenever she "needs a safe haven," Alaina Miller doesn't think of it as "Home" anymore. Not since she set off for school in Chicago- and especially not since she spent the last year studying abroad as part of the <a href="https://www.luc.edu/ricci/index.shtml" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ricci Scholars program</a> at Loyola College. What's driven her constant shifts to bigger, newer locales has been the vast diversity and different ways of thinking that she's encountered at every step of her journey. She went off to college knowing that she wanted to travel internationally and saw the Ricci Scholars' program's destinations of Rome and Beijing as a natural evolution, with each stop being a jumping off point to something ever-more foreign. Her project to study migrant housing has opened her eyes to a world of possibilities, and it's been incredibly fulfilling, but she realizes that she's starting to move outside of the experience of her traditional group of friends, and that she may find herself facing the same challenge that many who have spent time overseas face- discovering that they need to connect with different kinds of people than they did before they left.Learn more about the Ricci Scholars program at Loyola University here: <a href="https://www.luc.edu/ricci/index.shtml" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.luc.edu/ricci/index.shtml</a>   Get in touch with comments, suggestions or interview recommendations:   <ul><li> Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/zax2000" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@zax2000</a> </li> <li> eMail: <a href="mailto:mike.shaw@migrationmedia.net">mike.shaw@migrationmedia.net</a> </li></ul>  Check out all of the shows in the Migration Media network on the web (<a href="http://www.migrationmedia.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.migrationmedia.net</a>) and please take a moment to "Like" us and leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Podbean or wherever you get your podcasts... and subscribe!

#046: Ricci Scholars 2 - Examining Migrant Housing | Alaina Miller