United States -- Immigration and emigration
Found in 46 Collections and/or Records:
Oral history interview with Eva Aigner and Les Aigner
Oral history interview with Eva Aigner and Les Aigner conducted by Jim Lommasson, Elizabeth Mehran, and Sankar Raman in 2018 for The Immigrant Story. The Aigners, Holocaust survivors from Hungary, immigrated to the United States and settled in Portland, Oregon. They discuss their experiences during the Holocaust, life in post-war Hungary, and immigrating to Portland.
Oral history interview with Brianda Alcazar
Oral history interview with Brianda Alacazar conducted by Keven Salazar on July 22, 2018, for The Immigrant Story. Alcazar was born in Mexico and came to the United States with her family in 1999. She studied at Portland Community College and Pacific University, and is a recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Oral history interview with Abood Aldabea
Oral history interview with Abood Aldabea conducted by Sankar Raman on May 18, 2018, for The Immigrant Story. Aldabea and his family, refugees from Syria, immigrated to Portland, Oregon, in 2014.
Oral history interview with Kathy Delumpa Allegri
Oral history interview with Kathy Delumpa Allegri conducted by Sankar Raman and Briana Ybanez on November 2, 2017, for The Immigrant Story. Allegri immigrated to the United States from the Philippines with her family in 1949, when she was a year old, and later became an artist.
Oral history interview with Mussa Amissi
Oral history interview with Mussa Amissi conducted by Sankar Raman and Alia Burck on July 18, 2018, for The Immigrant Story. Amissi and his family, refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo, resettled in Portland, Oregon, in 2009.
Oral history interview with Victor D. Bencomo Acevedo
Oral history interview with Victor D. Bencomo Acevedo conducted by Kristin Cole and Sankar Raman on May 4, 2018, for The Immigrant Story. Acevedo was born in Venezuela, and his family opposed Hugo Chávez's government. He fled Venezuela in 2014, and he applied for asylum in the United States while studying in Portland, Oregon, on a student visa.
Oral history interview with Mark Bocek
Oral history interview with Mark Bocek conducted by Jim Strassmaier on April 21, 1979. Bocek immigrated to the United States from Poland and served in the U.S. Army. He played clarinet in the U.S. Army band while stationed in the Philippines from 1910 to 1912. He lived in Tillamook, Oregon, during the Tillamook Burn.
Oral history interview with Sumitra Chhetri
Oral history interview with Sumitra Chhetri conducted by Sankar Raman on March 19, 2017, for The Immigrant Story. Chhetri grew up in a camp for Bhutanese refugees in Nepal and immigrated to Portland, Oregon, in 2008.
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.