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Transcending their current immigration status, they offer nuanced portraits of their existence before and after migration, the factors behind their choices, the pain of leaving their homeland and beginning anew in a strange country, and their collective hunger for a future not defined by borders.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCreated entirely by undocumented or formerly undocumented migrants, \u003cem\u003eSomewhere We Are Human\u003c\/em\u003e is a journey of memory and yearning from people newly arrived to America, those who have been here for decades, and those who have ultimately chosen to leave or were deported. 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