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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": "Htun Lin", "title_s": "Htun Lin", "title_t": "Htun Lin", "title_search": "Htun Lin", "title_sort": "htunlin", "description": "Htun was born in Karen State, Burma. His father was killed by Burmese soldiers in 1998, and Htun grew up with a single mother. He lived in refugee camps on the Thai-Burma border for thirteen years where he learned how to film and edit video. He came to St. Paul, Minnesota in September 2014.", "date_created": [ "2015-02" ], "date_created_ss": [ "2015-02" ], "date_created_sort": "2015", "creator": [ "Lin, Htun" ], "creator_ss": [ "Lin, Htun" ], "creator_sort": "linhtun", "notes": "Htun created his 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": "0:04:33", "subject": [ "Origin Myanmar", "Ethnicity Karen" ], "subject_ss": [ "Origin Myanmar", "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-0081" ], "dls_identifier": [ "cla-ihrc-is-0081" ], "rights_statement_uri": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/", "transcription": "Htun\nLin\nTranscription\nMy\nname\nis\nHtun\nLin.\nI\nam\nKaren.\nThe\nstory\nI\nwould\nlike\nto\nshare\nwith\nyou\nis\nabout\nmy\nhard\nexperience.\nI\ngrew\nup\nin\na\npoor\nfamily.\nMy\nfather\ndied\nwhen\nI\nwas\nthirteen\nyears\nold.\nI\nlived\nwith\na\nsingle\nmother,\nso\nshe\ncouldn’t\nsend\nme\nto\nstudy\nbecause\nlife\nis\nso\nhard\nin\na\ncountry\nwith\na\ncivil\nwar.\nMy\nfather\nwas\nkilled\nby\nBurmese\nsoldiers\nin\nthe\nforest\nin\n1998.\nHe\nwas\na\nsinless\nvillager\nand\nhe\ndidn’t\ndo\nanything\nwrong.\nI\nhave\nnever\nforgotten\nabout\nit.\n“Revenge?”\nNo,\nI\nhave\nnever\nthought\nabout\nit.\nBut,\nI\nbelieve\nthe\nsaying\nthat\n“Do\nunto\nothers\nas\nyou\nwould\nhave\nthem\ndo\nunto\nyou.”\nMy\nhomeland\nis\nBurma,\nbut\nit\nis\nnot\nstable\nbecause\nof\nrevolution\nbetween\ngovernment\nand\nethnic\ngroups.\nI\nrealized\nthat\nI\ncould\nno\nlonger\ncontinue\nto\nstudy\nin\nmy\ncountry\nbecause\nI\ndidn’t\nhave\nmoney\nto\nfurther\nmy\neducation.\nTherefore,\nI\nspent\nthirteen\nyears\nof\nmy\nlife\nin\nrefugee\ncamps\non\nthe\nThai-‐Burma\nborder\nto\nget\na\nbetter\neducation.\nAfter\nthat,\nI\nknew\nthe\nanswer\nthat\na\nrefugee\ncamp\nis\na\ntemporary\nsettlement\nwhere\npeople\nwho\nare\nsuffering\nfrom\nwar\nand\nnatural\ndisaster\ncome\nto\nlive.\nWe\ncould\nnever\nbuild\nstable\nlives\nin\nthe\nrefugee\ncamps.\nAs\nI\ngrow\nolder,\nmy\nthought\nhas\nchanged\nfrom\nbefore.\nMy\nlife\nis\nnow\nthe\nsame\nas\na\npiece\nof\ncotton,\nblowing\nin\nthe\nwind.\nI\nneed\nto\nfind\na\nstable\nplace\nwhere\npeace\nand\nfreedom\nare\nborn\nfor\nmy\nfuture.\nI\nimmigrated\nto\nthe\nUnited\nStates\nin\nSeptember\n2014\nto\nbuild\na\nnew\nlife.\nI\nhave\nlearned\nthat\nthe\nthree\nmost\nimportant\nthings\nin\nthe\nU.S.\nare\neducation,\nmoney,\nand\ntime,\nthe\nthings\nthat\nare\nvery\npowerful\nin\nthe\nworld.\nThe\ngovernment,\npeople’s\nrights,\nliving\nstandards,\neducation,\nand\nthe\neconomy\nin\nthe\nUnited\nStates\nare\nall\nvery\ndifferent.\nNow,\npeople\nare\nstruggling\nin\ntheir\nlives\nwith\neducation\nand\nmoney.\nNow,\nI\nstart\nto\nset\nmy\nnew\nhope\nand\nmy\nnew\nhome.\nAlthough\nI\nmoved\nto\nthe\nU.S.,\nI\nwill\nnever\nforget\nmy\nKaren\npeople.\nI\nstill\nfeel\na\npart\nof\nthem\nand\ntheir\nstruggle.\nWe\nare\nstruggling\nfor\npeace\nand\nfreedom.\nSome\nof\nKaren\npeople\nhave\nsacrificed\ntheir\nlives\nfor\nour\ncountry\nand\nour\npeople.\nIt\nis\nmeaningful\nto\nsacrifice\nour\nlives.\nOne\nday,\nthe\nworld\nwill\nreally\nknow\nwho\nwe\nare,\nwhy\nwe\nhave\nto\nrevolt,\nand\nwhat\nwe\nwant.\nThe\ntruth\nwill\nnever\nbe\nhidden.\nThis\nis\nmy\nstory\nthat\nI\nwould\nlike\nto\nshare\nwith\nyou.\nI\nhope\nthat\nmy\nlife\nin\nthe\nU.S.\nwill\nbe\nmore\ncomfortable\nthan\nbefore.", "kaltura_video": "1_dcwfbzb3", "page_count": 0, "record_type": "primary", "first_viewer_type": "kaltura_video", "viewer_type": "kaltura_video", "attachment": "342.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_": 1710337983858606080, "type": "Moving Image", "collection": "p16022coll554", "is_compound": false, "parent_id": "91", "thumb_url": "https://cdnapisec.kaltura.com/p/1369852/thumbnail/entry_id/1_dcwfbzb3", "thumb_cdn_url": "https://dkp5i0hinw9br.cloudfront.net/bb5c21edd266ea24a79778206f78c6a9181340fa.png", "children": [ ] }