A Journey to Security and Opportunity: Snezana’s Story

By Mia Wright

“When your family is in danger, you don’t care, you just go.”

Snezana sits on the couch with her husband and 5 children. They are smiling, as one of her sons cuts into a birthday cake.

Snezana Hadzialijagic migrated to the US from Yugoslavia in 1993 during the Bosnian War with her husband and kids. They first resettled in Chicago through the Lutheran Church, then moved to Utah, where they found community with other families that came from Bosnia.  

Read the full transcript of Snezana’s interview

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