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Immigrant Stories is a research and archiving project run by the Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) at the University of Minnesota. Immigrant Stories helps immigrants, refugees, and their family members create digital stories: brief videos with images, text, and audio about a personal experience.
\n\nThis project defines \"immigrant\" broadly. Our collection contains digital stories from people living outside their country of birth as well as stories created by their children and grandchildren. Immigrant Stories also welcomes stories from international students, international adoptees, and people who do not feel that their stories fit a particular, or just one, category. All stories are important, and we invite you to make a video and share yours with us.
", "title": "Lina Ibarra", "title_s": "Lina Ibarra", "title_t": "Lina Ibarra", "title_search": "Lina Ibarra", "title_sort": "linaibarra", "description": "Lina came to the United States with her family at age 14 from Cali, Colombia. Though her life was very difficult for many years after coming to the US, she now says that she’s very happy and has found her place. She says that her kids and her husband are her life and she never would have had them if she had not immigrated to the US.", "date_created": [ "2015-02" ], "date_created_ss": [ "2015-02" ], "date_created_sort": "2015", "creator": [ "Ibarra, Lina" ], "creator_ss": [ "Ibarra, Lina" ], "creator_sort": "ibarralina", "notes": "Lina created her story as part of a Writing 2 class at the Ronald M. Hubbs Center for Lifelong Learning (Adult Basic Education) in St. Paul, Minnesota in January and February 2015. The course was taught by Alison Shank and IHRC staffer Elizabeth Venditto spent three weeks training the students to make their own digital stories.", "types": [ "Moving Image" ], "format": [ "Oral histories | http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595" ], "format_name": [ "Oral histories" ], "dimensions": "0:03:46", "subject": [ "Origin Colombia", "Ethnicity Colombian" ], "subject_ss": [ "Origin Colombia", "Ethnicity Colombian" ], "language": [ "English" ], "city": [ "St. Paul" ], "state": [ "Minnesota" ], "country": [ "United States" ], "region": [ "Ramsey County" ], "continent": [ "North America" ], "parent_collection": "Immigrant Stories; https://cla.umn.edu/ihrc/immigrant-stories", "parent_collection_name": "Immigrant Stories", "contributing_organization": "University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center", "contributing_organization_name": "University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center", "contributing_organization_name_s": "University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center", "contact_information": "University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center. 311 Elmer L. Andersen Library, 222 - 21st Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455; https://cla.umn.edu/ihrc", "fiscal_sponsor": "This work is made possible through the generous funding of the Digital Public Library of America Digital Hubs Pilot, which is supported by the Digital Public Library of America with funding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.", "local_identifier": [ "cla-ihrc-is-0119" ], "dls_identifier": [ "cla-ihrc-is-0119" ], "rights_statement_uri": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/", "transcription": "Lina Ibarra Transcription\nFebruary 2015\n\"Lina's Memory Video\"\nMy name is Lina Ibarra. I'm from Colombia and I have been an immigrant in USA for\nsixteen years. During this time, I have been able to learn about who I am and how my feelings,\nmy experiences, and my roots showed me the real me. I came to United States at the age of\nfourteen years old with my two sisters. As a kid I was happy for this new adventure in my life,\nbut I never expected what I was going to experience. At that age, I didn't know what to expect in\na new country. I remember being at school for the first time and realizing I wasn't part of the new\nsociety. I wasn't able to communicate or see myself in the picture. I felt thoroughly out of place,\nmissing my home, friends, my school, especially my old life. Time passed, but I still missing my\nold life and I wished my life in the United States could be like my old life in Colombia. By the\ntime I was in high school, things got hard. Then my feelings and my attitude become harsh.\nWhen I felt people treat any of my family or me badly, I was full of resentment. One day, I was\nat home and I started thinking about all the bad, mean, and hurtful things that had happened to\nme since I came to the USA. And I started to question all of them. “Why me?” I asked. “Why I\nwas here. Is all this worth it?” At the time, my nephew was about two or three years old. And I\nlook at him and I thought, he has no clue how lucky he is to be an American citizen. At that\nmoment, I decided to continue making my life in United States. If things were good or bad, it\ndidn't matter. I wouldn't let them affect me.\nMany years went by, and good and bad things happened to me and my family. It was\nvery hurtful, especially when those people who bring you pain to you are your own family. But it\nhelped me in some way to rethink everything my family and I have gone through. I decided to\nstep out my own picture and do everything with fresh eyes. I realized that I didn't have to fit\nsomeone else's picture. I had to live my own life and make my own picture. I want people to\naccept me for who I really am and who I will become. Not for who I was. This helped me and\nmade me feel proud of myself because I can yes, \"Yes, I am an IMMMIGRANT.\"\nToday, when I look back I remember everything that happened, and, at the same time, I\nlook forward to my future. I see the path that was already paved by my ancestors and by me.\nThis is my life and, at some point, my kids' life. I want to remember that being an immigrant\nmeans being an outsider. And being an outsider is who I am. I didn't know what to expect in a\nnew culture. And it was painful to leave behind part of my life and be able to extend that for\nmyself in a new country.\nEverything in my life wasn't that bad. I cried, I fell, I laughed, I learned. But most\nimportant to me was see who I really am today. Because of that, I know I can be better daughter,\nsister, aunt, and also wife and mom. I want my daughter, my son, and my nephew to learn as\nmuch as they can from me and to able to make better choice and also never take anything for\ngranted. 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