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My dads experience getting to the USA

Two 20-something year-old Latinas sit down and talk about activist-subversion in the context of our identities, privilege, and power in community. As a social work student, wanted to shed light on an immigrant story of growth, of learning, and connection.

In this interview, conducted in November 2020 in Orange, California, Diana Portillo (20) interviews her mother Maria Bruno (46) about her immigration process and journey to the United States. Mrs. Bruno shares her experience when moving from Mexico to California....

Immigration

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Lucelly shares her journey from Columbia to the United States.

Get to listen to my mom talk about her parents’ lives in Hungary, their immigration, and her childhood!!

Discussing with a polish immigrant his life and journey into the United States.

We talked about what the experiences were like in the U.S. How everything was different.

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.

Pappou Demetri talks about his trip to Canada and the lifelong friends he made on the way.

Two high school students interview each other about immigration.

I ask my mom about her experience coming from Mexico to Milwaukee.

Rosy and morgan talk about rosy growing up. Rosy nanny, morgan kid.

An interview with my grandfather. We talk about his childhood, his experiences coming to the US, and his reflections about his life so far.

Jim Benjaminson, North Dakota Highway Patrol (ret.), talks about working at a weigh station during winter's bad weather.

My mom talks about how her mindset changed after moving from Mexico to the US.

I interviewed my dad for a school project on what it was like for him to be an immigrant. Here is what he had to say...

My mother’s struggles with the fall of the Soviet Union and the wars in Georgia. Then the struggles she had with immigration and language barriers. Finally how she overcame them now.

This interview discusses the interviewees first experiences as a citizen and how they were able to adjust to this nation.

I interview my mother, Quynh Phan.

I spoke to Vijay Uncle about his experience of coming to the US for college after living in India. He talked about how the transition was and what it’s like to live here now.

My mother and I interviewed my grandmother, Dr. Diana Vilnus Drew.

Michelle Nguyen, my mother, tells me her life as a Vietnamese immigrant, who immigrated to the United States in the 1980s. She tells to me of her experiences with people at that time, and how she feels about me, her...

We talked about my mom’s history as a Chinese immigrant to America.