I've lived in a lot of places, and I always thought I'd know when I found the one that felt like home.

And then I moved to Wisconsin.

I didn't actually mean to stay.

I was from East Coast cities, and suddenly here I was in this state with more cows than people.

I mean, grown men and women here wear cheeseheads to football games.

And when it gets really cold, people go out on frozen lakes and they drill holes in the ice and

then they sit there and fish. So I didn't move here and just fall in love with this place.

But over time, it did become my home. I don't know if I

took root in it or it took root in me, but yeah, I'm a packer fan. I know a whole lot about

cheese. In the winter, I walk out on frozen lakes and I look at the stars.

So anyone who's ever moved to a new place knows what this is like.

It takes time and emotional investment to make a place feel like your home.

I'm Anne Strange Champson.

Today, unto the best of our knowledge, we're going to talk about how someone finds home, makes home, in an unfamiliar place.

Because we're living through a period of mass human migration.

Thousands of people all over the planet are on the move, not always by choice.

For instance, take Mariella Shockaker. She went from a city of

two million in Syria to a small town in rural Illinois of less than 10,000. Here's how she found

home. I remember going to the Music Institute and not knowing if I will make it back home because of the mortars and the horror we were experiencing.

To me, as I was 23, I had a great ambition to be able to find my way out of Syria. I didn't want to be killed in such a way.

I wanted to have a future.

I wanted to come here to be able to help others who are in need in Syria.

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