United States -- Immigration and emigration
Found in 46 Collections and/or Records:
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.
Oral history interview with Hanin Najjar
Oral history interview with Hanin Najjar conducted by Ibrahim Ibrahim on December 19, 2017, for The Immigrant Story. Najjar was born in Saudi Arabia and immigrated to the United States with her family in 1999. She discusses being a feminist, discrimination she has faced as a Muslim, and her plans for the future.
Oral history interview with Rahel Nardos
Oral history interview with Rahel Nardos conducted by Sankar Raman and Maleya Luis on March 28, 2018, for The Immigrant Story. Nardos immigrated to the United States from Ethiopia in the 1990s to pursue a career in medicine. In 2010, she founded Footsteps in Healing, which provides health care to women in Ethiopia.
Oral history interview with Naw Bi Tha Aye La
Oral history interview with Naw Bi Tha Aye La conducted by Sankar Raman on May 13, 2017, for The Immigrant Story. Naw Bi Tha Aye La was born in a refugee camp on the Thai-Myanmar border, and her family was able to resettle in the United States in 2010.
Oral history interview with Brenda Neri-Wong
Oral history interview with Brenda Neri-Wong conducted by Sankar Raman and Briana Ybanez on August 22, 2018, for The Immigrant Story. Neri-Wong came to the United States from Mexico as a child to seek treatment for a blood disorder. She later became a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program recipient.
Oral history interview with Dominic Vu Nguyen
Oral history interview with Dominic Vu Nguyen conducted by Rachel Ramirez on July 9, 2017, for The Immigrant Story. Nguyen's family fled Vietnam after the fall of Saigon in 1975 and later immigrated to the United States. He studied chemical and electrical engineering and became a fitness coach in Portland, Oregon.
Oral history interview with Esther Azorr Rask
Oral history interview with Esther Azorr Rask conducted by Robert J. Gassner on September 10, 1988, as part of the Portland's Syrian/Lebanese-American Community series. Rask was a second-generation Syrian-American and was active in the Portland Syrian and Lebanese American communities.
Interview with Eva Rickles
Interview with Eva Rickles conducted by Paul Fardig in 2018 for The Immigrant Story. Rickles' family fled Nazi Germany in 1937 and eventually immigrated to the United States.
Oral history interview with Mario Gomez-Rubio
Oral history interview with Mario Gomez-Rubio conducted by Sankar Raman on March 18, 2017, for The Immigrant Story. Gomez-Rubio and his family immigrated to Oregon from Mexico in 2015. His mother, Elizabeth Rubio-Alfaro, also participated in the interview.
Oral history interview with Felix Songolo
Oral history interview with Felix Songolo conducted by Sankar Raman on February 10, 2018, for The Immigrant Story. Songolo, the son of refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo, immigrated to the United States with his family at age 4. They settled in Portland, Oregon, in 2004.