Immigrants -- Oregon
Found in 72 Collections and/or Records:
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 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 Chang-Shee Chang
Oral history interview with Chang-Shee Chang conducted by Dora Totoian on October 18, 2019, for The Immigrant Story. Chang discusses his early life in Taiwan and his career as a vascular surgeon in Taiwan and in Portland, Oregon.
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 Frederick Clausen
Oral history interview with Frederick Clausen conducted by Linda S. Dodds from October 27-29, 1981. Clausen discusses his experiences in the grocery trade 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.
Oral history interview with Petrona Dominguez Francisco
Oral history interview with Petrona Dominguez Francisco, conducted by Sankar Raman, Nancy Dollahite, and Hannah Kendall on March 18, 2020, for The Immigrant Story. Dominguez Francisco, who came with her family to Forest Grove, Oregon, from Guatemala when she was a child, discusses her experiences as an undocumented immigrant, and her activism for immigrant rights.
Oral history interview with Bukhosi B. Dube
Oral history interview with Bukhosi B. Dube, conducted by Sankar Raman and Lisa Cohn on January 12, 2020, for The Immigrant Story. Dube discusses his family background and early life in Zimbabwe, his college experience in the United States, and his career as a doctor in Portland, Oregon.
Oral history interview with Chiyo Endo
Oral history interview with Chiyo Endo conducted in Japanese by Nadyne Yoneko Dozono on February 28 and March 2, 1992, as part of the Japanese American Oral History Project. Endo discusses her early life in Fukushima, Japan, her marriage to Kanichi Endo after immigrating to the United States, and her experiences after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.