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My aunt immigrated to Milwaukee, WI to have a better future and had to overcome the obstacles and get usted to life in the US.

Mirna shares with Melody her immigration story and what led her to a career in healthcare

In all we really just discussed the way we had thought of ourselves and the way we came to be. Also we through in some things we would regret and how we saw things.

lessons in life

We interviewed Ricardo's dad about his immigration from Spain.

My mother's life before and after immigrating.

Richard (50) and Kim (45) interviewed Dorothy (88) about her life through the years as well as some of the highlights and challenges.

This is our take on death and our view on this class this semester!

Siena Wigert discusses her views on the topic of death, what shaped them, and how they make her the person she is today. She is a close friend from high school and we both chose to go to the same...

A young women moves to America with her husband and kids to help her family back home

In this interview, conducted on Thanksgiving, 2015 in a suburb of Cleveland, Dylan Caine (16) asks his mother, Shelly Pesick-Caine (56), about her quintessentially American upbringing in the suburbs of Detroit. Born into a caring and hardworking family of six,...

Sonia Vela’s story of her immigration to America from El Salvador.

Sharon Hamilton Stovall losing her late Husband Larry Hamilton. Grieving silently in efforts to be strong and supportive of her children.

She lost the most important person in her life and now she is going to speak what she wish she got to say.

In this interview, conducted in November 2018 in Oregon, Noa Stoll (16) interviews her grandma Kathleen Stoll (79) about her childhood, life as a mother, and other in depth details about her life. Kathleen shares stories about her husband, children,...

My mom talks about growing up in the 80s and the complications regarding education and immigration.

Since he was young, my dad aspired to become a carpenter and build infrastructure where he grew up, a city called Zamboanga City that was not so urbanized as it is today. He did not envision moving to a new...

In this quick interview my grandmother was able to explain how her past life has shaped her as a person . Her childhood was very intense yet interesting when it came to be adventurous and learning new things . As...

Interview done on December 4th,2018 in Chicago,IL. Ana Maria (54)talks about her spirituality a lot and the influence it’s had on her life. She shares stories that truly make you think about lifes experiences. She also, briefly talks about her...

Mona’s immigration story.

Through this interview, I was able to learn about the voyage that my dad had coming to this country. This interview is a glimpse of the life of my immigrant father becoming a citizen.

Talking

This is the story of a first generation Hmong man in Saint Paul Minnesota.

This interview took place on January 21, 2020, in Fort Mill, South Carolina. This interview was with Katrina Ford. During this interview we discussed the journey of life and the power of positive thinking. We talked about living in the...

I'm this interview, in November 2018, Kailey Bean(17) interviews her dad Scott Bean(52) about her deceased grandmother, Shirley. They talk about what life was like when her grandmother was alive, and how life has changed since her passing. Scott talks...