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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.

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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.

Abstract Oral history interview with Elizabeth Flores, conducted by Sankar Raman, Nancy Dollahite, and Britany Cano-Briceno on January 20, 2020, for The Immigrant Story. Flores discusses her early life in rural Mexico and her experiences adjusting to life in the United States, including learning English. She shares her experiences as a Spanish speaker in California and during her education there; discusses studying to become a doctor; and speaks about her medical clinic, HousecallMD, which makes...

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Oral history interview with Daniel Franco-Núñez, conducted by Sankar Raman, Nancy Dollahite, and Angelica Alarcon on June 1, 2020, for The Immigrant Story. Franco-Núñez discusses his experiences as an undocumented immigrant in California and Oregon.

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Oral history interview with Mekdes Hilete, conducted by Sankar Raman and Lindsey Keefer on December 16, 2019, for The Immigrant Story. Hilete discusses her experience as an Ethiopian immigrant and high school student in Portland, Oregon.