Hello, fellow wanderers!
If you’re here, you love travel and culture, and you think the word “illegal” does not apply to human beings.
¿401 Que? is for you if:
You’re curious about what it’s like to move to a new country.
You appreciate what immigrants bring to the table.
You’ve moved to a new place and are trying to fit in.
You’re an immigrant or a child of immigrants.
You love learning about new cultures.
If any of these apply to you, then my stories are for you.
The stories you’ll find here:
This newsletter is about people who move to new places, whether for pleasure, adventure or opportunity, or by necessity or at duress.
Here you’ll read:
interviews with and profiles of people who moved for different reasons
memoir-style stories drawing from my experiences growing up in a mixed-status household and the move my wife and I made to France last year
analysis and insights on immigration developments in the U.S. and other countries
other musings about identity issues that arise when people live between cultures
Moving to a new place can be scary and lonely. Here you’ll feel connected, understood, motivated and inspired.
Who am I?
I’m Pablo Andreu, son of immigrants from Argentina. I was born and raised in Hoboken, Jersey (born in the same hospital as Frank Sinatra). My wife and I moved to France last year, which has been fun and enriching but also at times lonely and exhausting. It’s given me a newfound appreciation for what my parents went through when they moved to the U.S.
I’ve been writing since high school (The Herald at Bergen Catholic and The Heights at Boston College), but The New York Times was the first to pay for my writing, for an article about stealing coffee from another office (seriously). Since then, I’ve written about everything from Victorian history to enterprise technology to immigration policy to video games.
My writing has appeared in The New York Times, Travel & Leisure, Slate, Salon, Forbes, Adweek, McSweeney’s and more.
I’m also working on a speculative novel about people living in different realities in the same place. More on that soon!
Subscribe and you’ll get:
A deeper understanding of the immigrant experience.
Insights into the challenges and joys of moving to a new country.
Analysis about immigration that goes beyond the most recent headlines.
Here are a few of my articles to give you an idea of what you’ll find:
