How does the "New Country" vary in the poetry collection, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth?

In many poems, the characters are in or know someone who is in a new country far from home. This country is never named, and it may be different countries in different poems. The grandfather in "Old Spice" is somewhere different from his native Somalia, as is the narrator in "Conversations About Home" and Maymuun in "Maymuun's Mouth." In "Conversations About Home," this new country is cold, unfamiliar, and unwelcoming, whereas Maymuun changes herself and seems to adapt well to her new home.