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I first began this interview with my mom, Thuy Huynh. She told me about her life back in Vietnam and how she migrated to the U.S. Around 2005, she was diagnosed with diabetes and has now been working very hard...

These are all of the possible questiongs I’ve always wanted to ask my mom.

Cindy looks back at her life in the Philippines and talks about how she transitions into the life of an American as a teenager.

An interview regarding immigration, struggle, and hard-work.

mom’s experience escaping Vietnam to the US.

One Small Step conversation partners Dennis Pierce (81) and Moni Grushkin (59) explore their political views on a range of issues, and find common ground on values, in spite of political differences

This interview switches between Arabic and English. My mom describes her childhood in Iraq, the Iran-Iraq war, the Arab Gulf War, her college life, her current job, how she raised her family, and her life as a new immigrant coming...

We talked about part of his childhood and lessons to learn.

I talk with my great aunt about her job and education in the PI, her experience as an OFW/Expat, and how it contributed to her success and stability in America.

I interview my mom who is 51 about her life in Vietnam prior to moving to the Philippines and the United States. She talks about some hardships our family faced as immigrants in this country.

My father talks about his journey of illegally crossing the US border in 2003 from Mexico. The stuggles and changes he went through to get a better life for his family. The misconceptions that Mexicans have on life in the...

My mom shares her stories about her life in the Philippines and immigrating to America

I share memories with my mother as she recalls her life under poverty after the Fall of Saigon.

About the lives of my grandparents, Say Moua and Choua Yang, and their journey to the U.S. during the Vietnam War. This interview highlights the lives of Hmong people like my grandparents during the Vietnam War in Laos and in...

My dad discusses his life immigrating to the United States in the 70s, his time as a marine and meeting my mother and having me.

This is an interview with my mom about her immigrant story. My mom talks about her life before and after moving to the United States.

My mom talks about her family and childhood in Vietnam. Additionally she talks about what it was like coming to the U.S and becoming a mother.

My father (Juancho) talks about his experiences in America as an immigrant coming from the Philippines in the 1980s.

About adapting to new American culture from Mexico, illegal immigration.

Hayley Peterson speaks with her grandmother, Bea VanWyk McPherson, about her childhood and immagration from Holland to San Diego.

I interview my mom about coming to the US from the Philippines, her thoughts on religion, and being a parent.

My Oma, Trudy Chambers, and I, Keely Chambers, reflect on my Oma’s childhood in Germany as we sit together in San Diego. As a fifteen year old in California growing up in 2018 I am curious about how my Oma...

In this over the phone interview, recorded in November 2018 in San Diego, California, Leilani Ferguson (16) interviews her grandma, or Lola, Salud Mangahis (75) about her settlement into the United States from the Philippines and her family upbringing. Mrs....

His journey of coming to the US to escape the communism in Vietnam.

My Great Uncle Joe: "I've had a gorgeous life." After the interview, he kept going. Looking at a 60" TV, he said the first TV he bought his father-in-law was a console with a 7" screen that received a single...