Oral history interview with Yuriana Aguilar
Scope and Contents
This oral history interview with Yuriana Aguilar was conducted by Sankar Raman by phone call in 2017. The interview was recorded for The Immigrant Story, an organization that documents and archives the stories of immigrants and refugees in the United States. In this interview, Aguilar discusses her experience as an undocumented immigrant child from Mexico. She talks about pursuing higher education and a career in biology as a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient. She talks about being the first in her family to get a college education, her motivation to succeed, and her research in cardiology. She describes her experience of being the guest of U.S. Senator Kamala Harris at a speech President Donald Trump delivered to Congress in 2017. She describes how, in the speech, he demonized and misrepresented undocumented immigrants. She closes the interview by talking about living under the specter of deportation and her hopes for a path to citizenship.
Dates
- 2017
Creator
- Aguilar, Yuriana (Interviewee, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Joint copyright for this interview is held by the Oregon Historical Society and The Immigrant Story. Use is allowed according to the following statement: In Copyright – Educational Use Permitted, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Biographical note
Yuriana Aguilar was born in Mexico. Her family came to the United States when she was 5, and they settled in Fresno, California. She attended the University of California Merced, where she earned a bachelor of science degree in biology. After the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was established by the administration of President Barack Obama in 2012, she received protections under the program and continued her studies at UC Merced, earning a Ph.D. in 2016. She then worked as an instructor and post-doctoral fellow at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.
Extent
42.6 Megabytes (1 online resource (1 audio file (34 min., 10 sec.))) : MPEG-4
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Oral history interview with Yuriana Aguilar conducted by Sankar Raman in 2017 for The Immigrant Story. Aguilar is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico who came to the United States with her family when she was 5. She is a recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and earned a Ph.D. at the University of California Merced.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of The Immigrant Story, 2020 (Lib. Acc RL2020-017).
Publication note
- Aguilar, Yuriana
- California
- Cardiology
- College students -- California
- Emigration and immigration law -- United States
- Immigrant children -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States
- Immigrants -- California
- Mexican Americans
- Mexican Americans
- Oral Histories
- Undocumented immigrant children -- United States
- interviews
Creator
- Aguilar, Yuriana (Interviewee, Person)
- Raman, Sankar (Interviewer, Person)
- Title
- Guide to oral history interview with Yuriana Aguilar
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Sarah Stroman
- Date
- 2020
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is written in English.
Repository Details
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