Raman, Sankar
Found in 66 Collections and/or Records:
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).
Oral history interview with Lilia Boteva-Ayzoukian
Oral history interview with Lilia Boteva-Ayzoukian, conducted by Sankar Raman, Nancy E. Dollahite, and Lindsey Keefer on December 22, 2019, for The Immigrant Story. Boteva-Ayzoukian discusses her acting career in Bulgaria, her marriage to Barkev Ayzoukian, and raising a family in Beirut during Lebanon's civil war.
Oral history interview with Olive Bukuru
Oral history interview with Olive Bukuru conducted by Sankar Raman on December 4, 2018, for The Immigrant Story. Bukuru discusses her early life in the Nduta Refugee Camp in Tanzania, her life after immigrating to the United States in 2007, and returning to Burundi in 2017 while attending Portland State University.
Oral history interview with Peter Magai Bul
Oral history interview with Peter Magai Bul conducted by Nancy E. Dollahite and Sankar Raman on November 26, 2018, for The Immigrant Story. Bul discusses his experiences as one of the Lost Boys and Girls of Sudan.
Oral history interview with Baher Butti
Oral history interview with Baher Butti conducted by Sankar Raman on January 10, 2019, for The Immigrant Story. Butti discusses his experiences living in Iraq during the latter half of the 20th century and as an immigrant to the United States.
Oral history interview with Sumitra Chhetri
Oral history interview with Sumitra Chhetri conducted by Sankar Raman on March 19, 2017, for The Immigrant Story. Chhetri grew up in a camp for Bhutanese refugees in Nepal and immigrated to Portland, Oregon, in 2008.
Oral history interview with Tsering D. Choephel
Oral history interview with Tsering D. Choephel, conducted for The Immigrant Story by Sankar Raman, Nancy Dollahite, Juniper Yarnall-Benson, and additional unidentified interviewers. The interview was conducted in three sessions from January 15 to January 27, 2020. Choephel discusses her early life in Tibet and Nepal; her arranged marriage, which brought her to Camas, Washington; and running a food truck called Tibetan Family Momo in Dallas, Texas.
Oral history interview with Tito Chowdhury
Oral history interview with Tito Chowdhury, conducted by Sankar Raman and Lisa Cohn on March 12 and March 23, 2020, for The Immigrant Story. Chowdhury discusses his early life in Bangladesh, including his family's experiences during the 1947 partition of India and the 1971 Bangladesh War of Independence, and talks about his involvement with FashioNXT, a fashion event in Portland, Oregon.
Oral history interview with Bernal Cruz
Oral history interview with Bernal Cruz conducted by Sankar Raman on February 25, 2019, for The Immigrant Story. Cruz discusses his experience as a Guatemalan immigrant in Oregon, and talks about his career as a social worker.
Oral history interview with Nabin Dhimal
Oral history interview with Nabin Dhimal conducted by Sankar Raman on May 19, 2018, for The Immigrant Story. Dhimal was the child of Bhutanese refugees, and he was born and grew up in camps in Nepal. His family was approved for resettlement in the United States in 2008 and immigrated to Portland, Oregon, where Dhimal attended Portland State University.
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- Oregon 59
- Immigrants -- Oregon 45
- United States -- Immigration and emigration 31
- oral histories (literary genre) 31
- English language -- Study and teaching -- United States -- Foreign speakers 18
- Immigrants -- United States 9
- Emigration and immigration law -- United States 6
- Mexican Americans -- Oregon 6
- Refugees -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 6
- Artists -- Oregon 5
- College students -- Oregon 4
- Congolese (Democratic Republic) -- Oregon 4
- Immigrant children -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States 4
- Iraqi Americans -- Oregon 4
- Racism -- Oregon 4
- Refugee camps -- Tanzania 4
- Undocumented immigrant children -- United States 4
- East Indian Americans -- Oregon 3
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 3
- Refugee camps -- Nepal 3
- Refugees -- Bhutan 3
- Refugees -- Burma 3
- Refugees -- Burundi 3
- Soccer 3
- South Asian Americans -- Oregon 3
- Syria -- History -- Civil War, 2011- 3
- United States -- Emigration and Immigration 3
- Bullying in schools -- Oregon 2
- Burma -- Politics and government -- 1962-1988 2
- Burma -- Social conditions 2
- Burundian Americans -- Oregon 2
- California 2
- Discrimination against African Americans -- Oregon 2
- Ethiopian Americans -- Oregon 2
- Fine Arts 2
- Hungarian Americans -- Oregon 2
- Immigrants -- California 2
- Iran-Iraq War, 1980-1988 2
- Islamophobia -- United States 2
- Japanese Americans 2
- Japanese Americans -- Oregon 2
- Korean Americans -- Oregon 2
- Lebanon -- History -- Civil War, 1975-1990 2
- Mexican Americans 2
- Muslims -- Bosnia and Herzegovina 2
- Portland 2
- Refugee camps -- Thailand 2
- Refugees -- Somalia 2
- Refugees -- Syria 2
- Refugees, Arab 2
- Rohingya (Burmese people) -- Oregon 2
- Software engineering 2
- Syrian Americans -- Oregon 2
- United States -- Politics and government -- 2017- 2
- Venezuelans -- Oregon 2
- Violinists 2
- Washington (State) 2
- Women politicians -- Oregon 2
- Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Atrocities -- Bosnia and Herzegovina 2
- Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Personal narratives, Bosnian 2
- Actors -- Bulgaria 1
- Afghan Americans -- Oregon 1
- Afghan War, 2001-2021 1
- Antisemitism 1
- Armenians -- Foreign countries 1
- Arranged marriage 1
- Art museums -- Oregon -- Portland 1
- Bangladesh -- History -- Revolution, 1971 1
- Bangladeshi Americans -- Oregon 1
- Beauty operators -- Oregon -- Portland 1
- Bengal (India) -- History -- Partition, 1947 1
- Biology -- Research -- Hungary 1
- Bosian Americans -- Oregon 1
- Bosnian Americans -- Oregon 1
- Bulgarian Americans -- California -- Los Angeles 1
- Bullying in schools -- Egypt 1
- Bullying in schools -- India 1
- Burma -- Politics and government -- 1988- 1
- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- 1
- Cambodian Americans -- Oregon 1
- Cardiology 1
- Catholics -- Oregon 1
- Children and war -- Sudan 1
- Chinese Americans -- Oregon 1
- Civil disobedience -- Oregon -- Portland 1
- College students -- California 1
- Communism -- Bulgaria 1
- Communism -- Cambodia -- 20th century 1
- Communism -- Hungary 1
- Communism -- Romania 1
- Computers -- Study and teaching 1
- Cuban Americans -- Oregon -- Portland 1
- Dance 1
- Dinka (African people) 1
- Disc jockeys -- Oregon 1
- East Indians -- Music 1
- Emigration and immigration law 1
- Engineers -- Oregon 1 + ∧ less