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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": "Ler Paw", "title_s": "Ler Paw", "title_t": "Ler Paw", "title_search": "Ler Paw", "title_sort": "lerpaw", "description": "Ler Kue Paw was born in the Karen States, Burma, in 2000. When she was two, her family fled to Thailand to escape the civil war in Burma. They lived in a refugee camp and she attended school.", "date_created": [ "2017-02-02" ], "date_created_ss": [ "2017-02-02" ], "date_created_sort": "2017", "creator": [ "Paw, Ler" ], "creator_ss": [ "Paw, Ler" ], "creator_sort": "pawler", "types": [ "Moving Image" ], "format": [ "Oral histories | http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595" ], "format_name": [ "Oral histories" ], "dimensions": "0:02:50", "subject": [ "Origin Myanmar", "Origin Myanmar (Karen State)", "Ethnicity Karen" ], "subject_ss": [ "Origin Myanmar", "Origin Myanmar (Karen State)", "Ethnicity Karen" ], "language": [ "English" ], "state": [ "Minnesota" ], "country": [ "United States" ], "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", "local_identifier": [ "cla-ihrc-is-0116" ], "dls_identifier": [ "cla-ihrc-is-0116" ], "rights_statement_uri": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/", "transcription": "file:///F/Immigrant%20Stories%20Transfer/Paw,%20Ler/Ler%20Paw%20Transcription.txt[7/6/2017 3:32:06 PM]\n\"Darkness Turns to Brightness\"\nMy name is Ler Kue. I was born in Burma, in 2000. When I turned two years old, my family moved to a\nrefugee camp in Thailand because of the civil war. We took a boat to reach the refugee camp. When we got\nthere, it was a quiet night. We didn't hear any other sounds, but the sound of birds. We used wood and\nbamboo to build our house. We used to have a garden, and in our garden, we grew mustard plants, green\nonions and cucumber. Near our house, we grew a banana tree and pineapple. My parents were working on\nthe farm. Life as a refugee was a bad experience because we didn't have enough food. We had to find our\nfood by ourselves.\nWhen I lived in Thailand I didn't have to work at all because my parents sent me to school even though they\ndidn't have much money to buy me a uniform. When I turned 5 years old they sent me to school. I really\nliked school because I met a lot of friends. We always played together. We used to jump rope on Saturday.\nOur school had a morning meeting where all students worshiped together before going to class. I had to\nwalk to school everyday.\nAt school the teachers hit their students with sticks when they did something wrong or when they didn't do\ntheir homework. I thought they should teach students in different ways instead of hitting them. Sometimes I\ngot hit when I did poorly on a quiz. They were full of anger and hated in me when I got hit. Sometimes it\nmade me hate going to school and I told my parents that I didn’t want to go anymore. Some children have\nbad experience in their life because they wanted to go to school, but their parents didn't have enough\nmoney to pay for school or buy their uniform. What they had to do was work for their family. Some of them\nhad to work away from home even when they didn't want to. Some of them worked by selling food, and\nsome worked on the farm. Now I'm in America, I still go to school and my parents still work, but their work\nis a lot easier than in Thailand because they don’t work on the farm like they used to. I believe that one day\nI can make my family proud of me.", "kaltura_video": "1_tuzez89k", "page_count": 0, "record_type": "primary", "first_viewer_type": "kaltura_video", "viewer_type": "kaltura_video", "attachment": "73.pdf", "attachment_format": "pdf", "document_type": "item", "featured_collection_order": 999, "date_added": "2021-01-26T00:00:00Z", "date_added_sort": "2021-01-26T00:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2021-01-26T00:00:00Z", "_version_": 1710348538333888513, "type": "Moving Image", "collection": "p16022coll554", "is_compound": false, "parent_id": "259", "thumb_url": "https://cdnapisec.kaltura.com/p/1369852/thumbnail/entry_id/1_tuzez89k", "thumb_cdn_url": "https://dkp5i0hinw9br.cloudfront.net/ff01262c535340b5d98b32c3a007b1d7f3a6939a.png", "children": [ ] }