Raman, Sankar
Found in 67 Collections and/or Records:
Oral history interview with Eva Aigner and Les Aigner
Oral history interview with Eva Aigner and Les Aigner conducted by Jim Lommasson, Elizabeth Mehran, and Sankar Raman in 2018 for The Immigrant Story. The Aigners, Holocaust survivors from Hungary, immigrated to the United States and settled in Portland, Oregon. They discuss their experiences during the Holocaust, life in post-war Hungary, and immigrating to Portland.
Oral history interview with Salsabel Al Masri
Oral history interview with Salsabel Al Masri, conducted by Dora Totoian and Sankar Raman on January 5, 2020. Al Masri discusses her early life and education in Daraa, Syria; her experiences living in Irbid, Jordan, from 2012 to 2016; and her experiences adjusting to life in Portland, Oregon, after immigrating to the United States in 2016.
Oral history interview with Abood Aldabea
Oral history interview with Abood Aldabea conducted by Sankar Raman on May 18, 2018, for The Immigrant Story. Aldabea and his family, refugees from Syria, immigrated to Portland, Oregon, in 2014.
Oral history interview with Kathy Delumpa Allegri
Oral history interview with Kathy Delumpa Allegri conducted by Sankar Raman and Briana Ybanez on November 2, 2017, for The Immigrant Story. Allegri immigrated to the United States from the Philippines with her family in 1949, when she was a year old, and later became an artist.
Oral history interview with Johana Amani
Oral history interview with Johana Amani conducted by Sankar Raman on March 13, 2019, for The Immigrant Story. Amani discusses her life in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, and Kenya, and her life after immigrating to the United States in 2016.
Oral history interview with Mussa Amissi
Oral history interview with Mussa Amissi conducted by Sankar Raman and Alia Burck on July 18, 2018, for The Immigrant Story. Amissi and his family, refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo, resettled in Portland, Oregon, in 2009.
Oral history interview with Chris Ayzoukian
Oral history interview with Chris Ayzoukian conducted by Sankar Raman, Lindsey Keefer, and Nancy Dollahite on December 22, 2019. Ayzoukian discusses his early life in Beirut, Lebanon, during Lebanon's civil war; life in Los Angeles County, California, from 1983 to 2017; and his work as general manager of the Patricia Reser Center for the Arts in Beaverton, Oregon.
Oral history interview with Soulayvanh Beisel
Oral history interview with Soulayvanh Beisel, conducted by Sankar Raman and Samuel Chapman on February 2, 2020, for The Immigrant Story. Beisel discusses her early life in Tha Ngon, Laos; her life in the Nongkai refugee camp in Thailand in the 1970s; and her experiences as a Laotian American in Wichita, Kansas, in the 1980s, and in Waikiki, Hawaii, in the 1990s.
Oral history interview with Victor D. Bencomo Acevedo
Oral history interview with Victor D. Bencomo Acevedo conducted by Kristin Cole and Sankar Raman on May 4, 2018, for The Immigrant Story. Acevedo was born in Venezuela, and his family opposed Hugo Chávez's government. He fled Venezuela in 2014, and he applied for asylum in the United States while studying in Portland, Oregon, on a student visa.
Oral history interview with Marcela Bonilla Morales
Oral history interview with Marcela Bonilla Morales, conducted by Sankar Raman, Nancy E. Dollahite, and Shea Seery on September 21, 2019, for The Immigrant Story. Bonilla Morales discusses adjusting to life in Beaverton, Oregon, after she and her family immigrated to the United States from El Salvador in 2006, and shares her experiences as an undocumented immigrant and with the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (DACA).
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