Immigrants Belong: Play Your Role

In-game identities can guide how we build belonging and protect it in digital spaces. The goal of the Play Your Role campaign is to create a healthy and safe space in the gaming world for conversation and discourse around immigrant belonging.

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The Immigrants Belong (I-Belong) Fund

The I-Belong Fund aims to develop a pro-immigrant narrative strategy for digital media by focusing on community building, storytelling tactics, and research. Our work uniquely engages stakeholders across disciplines to form an interdisciplinary coalition from the advocacy, scholarly, and digital media spaces to shift the narrative around immigration for moveable audiences online

The Game: Play Your Role

Who you are online shapes the worlds we build together. Play Your Role invites gamers to create safer, more inclusive spaces for conversations about immigrant belonging, sparking curiosity, dignity, and truth over fear or misinformation.

Tutorial

Your in-game instincts can heal, protect, and guide your community.

How to Play:

  1. Pick a role card that fits you.
  2. Read the prompts and discuss with your chat or community.

Tip: No one “wins” this game. You level up by telling a good story and staying curious

In an era marked by division, disinformation, and rapid shifts in media, we’ve also never had greater access to stories, networks, and tools to amplify them. The I-Belong Fund is proof that, even in these challenging times, we can harness that power to drive real, lasting change.

The Immigrants Belong Fund is a project of Tides.