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United States -- Emigration and Immigration

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Oral history interview with Salsabel Al Masri

 Collection
Identifier: SR 12337
Abstract

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.

Dates: 2020 January 5

Oral history interview with Soulayvanh Beisel

 Collection
Identifier: SR 12339
Abstract

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.

Dates: 2020 February 2

Oral history interview with Tsering D. Choephel

 Collection
Identifier: SR 12344
Abstract

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.

Dates: 2020 January 15-27

Oral history interview with Petrona Dominguez Francisco

 Collection
Identifier: SR 12345
Abstract

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.

Dates: 2020 March 18

Oral history interview with Hazar Jaber

 Collection
Identifier: SR 12354
Abstract

Oral history interview with Hazar Jaber, conducted by Sankar Raman, Nancy Dollahite, and Hannah Kendall on May 29, 2020, for The Immigrant Story. Jaber discusses her work with the Syrian Red Crescent Society; her immigration to the United States; and her experiences running a dental practice, Happy Kids Dentistry, in Longview, Washington.

Dates: 2020 May 29