United States -- Immigration and emigration
Found in 45 Collections and/or Records:
Oral history interview with Fowzia Ibrahim
Oral history interview with Fowzia Ibrahim conducted by Don Schwartz on April 4, 2017, for The Immigrant Story. Ibrahim, the daughter of Somali refugees in Kenya, immigrated to the United States with her family in 2004.
Oral history interview with Irakoze Diane
Oral history interview with Irakoze Diane conducted by Sankar Raman on December 14, 2018, for The Immigrant Story. She talks about her experiences as a Burundian refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Oral history interview with Sam J. Kahl and Zaki J. Kahl
Oral history interview with Sam J. Kahl and Zaki J. Kahl conducted by Robert J. Gassner on September 6, 1988, as part of the Portland's Syrian/Lebanese-American Community series. The Kahl brothers were immigrants from Syria and business owners in Portland, Oregon.
Oral history interview with Prashant Kakad
Oral history interview with Prashant Kakad conducted by Sankar Raman on July 20, 2017, for The Immigrant Story. Kakad immigrated to the United States from India in 2003. He attended Cornell University, worked for Intel, and became a dance teacher and DJ in Oregon.
Oral history interview with Nawid G. Khan
Oral history interview with Nawid G. Khan conducted by Sankar Raman on July 11, 2017, for The Immigrant Story. Khan immigrated to the United States from Afghanistan in 2016.
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 Jaime Miranda
Oral history interview with Jaime Miranda conducted by Keven Salazar on August 1, 2018, for The Immigrant Story. Miranda immigrated to the United States from Mexico around 1985. He studied to become a teacher, but changed his career trajectory and opened the M & M Marketplace in Hillsboro, Oregon.
Oral history interview with Jhoana Monroy-Espinoza
Oral history interview with Jhoana Monroy-Espinoza conducted by Sankar Raman on February 5, 2018, for The Immigrant Story. Espinoza was born in Mexico and became a recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. She attended Portland Community College and Portland State University.
Oral history interview with Jean Paul Mugisha
Oral history interview with Jean Paul Mugisha conducted by Sankar Raman on April 30, 2017, for The Immigrant Story. Mugisha was a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo, grew up in a refugee camp in Rwanda, and resettled in the United States with his family in 2014.
Oral history interview with Jenny Munezero
Oral history interview with Jenny Munezero conducted by Sankar Raman and Julianna Robidoux on May 2, 2019, for The Immigrant Story. Munezero discusses her experiences as a Burundian refugee in Tanzania and in Beaverton, Oregon.