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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": "Yan Naung", "title_s": "Yan Naung", "title_t": "Yan Naung", "title_search": "Yan Naung", "title_sort": "yannaung", "description": "Yan's family are Karen refugees from Burma. He was born in Thailand but he and his mother immigrated to the US when he was very young. He was raised in St. Paul, Minnesota for most of his life and he feels very Minnesotan.", "date_created": [ "2014-03-20 - 2014-06-20" ], "date_created_ss": [ "2014-03-20 - 2014-06-20" ], "date_created_sort": "2014", "creator": [ "Naung, Yan", "Yi, Kevin" ], "creator_ss": [ "Naung, Yan", "Yi, Kevin" ], "creator_sort": "naungyanyikevin", "notes": "Created by Kevin Yi, Yan's roommate at the University of Minnesota, as a final project for AAS 1101: Imagining Asian America at the University of Minnesota. The course was taught by Dr. Erika Lee in spring 2014.", "types": [ "Moving Image" ], "format": [ "Oral histories | http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595" ], "format_name": [ "Oral histories" ], "dimensions": "0:03:40", "subject": [ "Origin Lao Pdr", "Ethnicity Karen" ], "subject_ss": [ "Origin Lao Pdr", "Ethnicity Karen" ], "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-0236" ], "dls_identifier": [ "cla-ihrc-is-0236" ], "rights_statement_uri": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/", "transcription": "Yan Naung Immigrant Story\nProduced by Kevin Yi\nHi my name is Yan Naung and this is my immigrant story. I'm originally from Bangkok,\nThailand and both of my parents are Karen. If you don't know what that is, it's an ethnic group\nfrom Burma (also known as Myanmar). They are refugees that fled from Burma because of the\nturmoils of the world's longest ongoing civil war. I lived in Thailand for the first six years of my\nlife and I still have some memories from that period of time.\nAlthough I was born in Bangkok, I mostly remember my mom and me going back and\nforth between the refugee camp and another city where my mom would see family and make\nsome money to send me to school. Coming from a life where education was not an opportunity\nthat was given to her, my mom wanted to provide that opportunity for me. She wanted to give\nme all the opportunities she never had and to live a life she never had the chance to live. So one\nday, we went to get documented, along with a lot of other refugees. The World Relief\nOrganization had found a sponsor family in the United States for us and so for my sixth birthday,\nmy mom's gift to me was a life here in the United States. That also meant that she would be\nleaving her family in Thailand and everything that she had found there. She would be going to a\nforeign country where everything would be new to her and a place where she would need to find\nnew ways to survive. So that's briefly how I got here to the United States.\nAs I grew up here, she took pictures and saved them in a photo album and in that very\nsame photo album were also pictures back from Thailand. There are some pictures from the\nrefugee camp. One is a picture of me in the living area inside the camp which was a small room,\nsmaller than the room I share with Kevin now. Another is a picture of an advertisement of a big\ncelebration that was held inside the refugee camp. It celebrated the diversity of ethnicities\ninside the refugee camp. My mom also kept some pictures of me at a mall that she took me to\none day. I had the best time of my life- well, I would say, of my toddler career. There are also\nsome pictures of me at the airport in Thailand that represents my last moments there.\nLooking at these pictures I sometimes wonder what my life would have been like in\nThailand. Would I have known my siblings? Would I have the same opportunities as I do now?\nHow hard would my life have been?\nThese pictures also make me appreciate the sacrifices that my mom has made for me. All\nthat I have now is because of her. Her strength, courage, and drive is why I am here today. My\nname is Yan Naung and my immigrant story is just one of many.", "kaltura_video": "1_rtb12q0a", "page_count": 0, "record_type": "primary", "first_viewer_type": "kaltura_video", "viewer_type": "kaltura_video", "attachment": "318.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_": 1710348538364297216, "type": "Moving Image", "collection": "p16022coll554", "is_compound": false, "parent_id": "292", "thumb_url": "https://cdnapisec.kaltura.com/p/1369852/thumbnail/entry_id/1_rtb12q0a", "thumb_cdn_url": "https://dkp5i0hinw9br.cloudfront.net/5afd3eb40557da472395add088b4fe68d4131dbd.png", "children": [ ] }