Emigration and immigration law -- United States
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Oral history interview with Yuriana Aguilar
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.
Oral history interview with Janet Liu
Oral history interview with Janet Liu conducted by Sankar Raman and Jessica Pollard on August 10, 2018, for The Immigrant Story. Liu's father was a Chinese scientist working in the United States, and after an executive order by President John F. Kennedy allowed foreign researchers to bring their families, Liu and her mother emigrated from Taiwan in 1961. Liu was granted legal resident status in 1968 and later became a computer programmer and real estate investor.
Oral history interview with Liliana Luna
Oral history interview with Liliana Luna conducted by Dora Totoian and Sankar Raman on July 12, 2019, for The Immigrant Story. Luna migrated to the United States with her family as a child and attended Portland State University under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy.
Oral history interview with Sarah Rikaz
Oral history interview with Sarah Rikaz conducted by Sankar Raman on January 11, 2019, for The Immigrant Story. Rikaz discusses her career as an artist and her experiences in Portland, Oregon, as an immigrant from Sri Lanka.
Oral history interview with Ariel Rubstein
Oral history interview with Ariel Rubstein conducted by Marian W. Kolisch from December 17, 1984, to February 18, 1985. Rubstein, a pianist and music instructor, discusses his early life in Russia, and his life and career in Portland, Oregon.
Oral history interview with Van Tran
Oral history interview with Van Tran conducted by Sankar Raman and Shea Seery in 2019 for The Immigrant Story. Tran discusses her experiences as a young woman during and after the Vietnam War, and talks about operating Phở Lê, a Vietnamese restaurant now located in Vancouver, Washington.
Oral history interview with Reza Uddin
Oral history interview with Reza Uddin conducted by Allison Merkel and Sankar Raman on July 25, 2019, for The Immigrant Story. Uddin discusses his experiences as a Rohingya Muslim in Burma and Oregon.
Extracts from U.S. Senate speeches regarding a Chinese exclusion bill
Printed extracts of speeches regarding an 1882 bill to prohibit Chinese immigration to the United States for 20 years, as well as vote tallies and U.S. President Chester A. Arthur's veto message. The bill referred to in this item failed to override presidential veto, but a modified version, which barred Chinese laborers from entering the United States for 10 years, passed as the Chinese Exclusion Act later that year, was renewed in 1892, made permanent in 1902, and repealed in 1943.