Pauline Thompson and Tamar Brown
Recorded
December 21, 2021
Archived
December 21, 2021
39:50 minutes
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Id:
atl004568
Description
Tamar Brown (31) interviews her mother Pauline Thompson (66) about Pauline's life, including her experiences as an illegal immigrant in Canada, her life when she returned to Jamaica, and how she started her own sewing business that she and Tamar have recently re-started in Atlanta.Subject Log / Time Code
Pauline (P) talks about her time living as an illegal immigrant in Canada.
P talks about returning to Jamaica after being deported from Canada and being reunited with her young son.
P talks about how she started sewing curtains and draperies, which eventually she turned into her own business.
P talks about her mother giving her up as an 8-month old baby to an Irish lady in Jamaica to raise her.
P and Tamar (T) talk about P's husband and T's father, and his returning to Jamaica after being in America and experiencing mental health issues.
P talks about her husband and her starting their own sewing business in Jamaica.
T talks about giving up her job as a professor to re-start the sewing business with her mother here in America.
P talks about the importance of knowing yourself and having self-confidence regardless of circumstances.
P talks about wishing people understood immigrants and their motivations better. P also talks about the importance of hard work.
Participants
- Pauline Thompson
- Tamar Brown