In this study, we employ a curricular conceptual lens of the particular to explore the experience of multicultural education from the perspective of an immigrant student, Raj. Using a school-based narrative inquiry approach, we learn about Raj's experiences at the intersections of immigration and settlement, adaptation and assimilation, English-language acquisition, unemployment, poverty, family violence, and family relocation. We employ Dewey's [(1938). "Experience and education". New York: Simon & Schuster] theory of experience, Connelly and Clandinin's [(1988). "Teachers as curriculum planners: Narratives of experience". New York: Teachers College Press, Columbia] understanding of curriculum as experience, and Schwab's [(1969). "The practical: A language for curriculum." "School Review, 78", 1-23] theory of the particular as theoretical frameworks upon which to examine and analyze interactions and events. (Contains 3 figures.)