Abdi was born and grew up in Kismayo, Somalia. After the outbreak of civil war in 1991, he went to a small town, Doble, near the Kenyan border. Two years later, he returned to Kismayo and ran his own business. He later went to South Africa, where he again ran his own business. He began the resettlement process in 2010 and finally came to the ...
Creator:
Khalif, Abdi
Created:
2014-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Abdirahman Kahin was born in Djibouti and immigrated to the United States in 1996. He has lived in Minnesota since 1997. After working for several years in media production, he created Afro Deli, a popular East African restaurant in Cedar-Riverside, Minneapolis. In 2015, he opened its second location in St. Paul.
Creator:
Kahin, Abdirahman
Created:
2015
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Abdullah Lami immigrated to the United States from Iraq along with his family to attain a better education. While life was initially challenging as he missed his culture, learned a new language, and faced racial discrimination, life eventually became easier.
Creator:
Lami, Abdullah
Created:
2019-06-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Adam Chisholm was born around 1695 in Scotland. Due to being a rebel soldier in the Jacobite Rebellion, he was exiled to the American Colonies where he worked as an indentured servant for seven years before starting a family.
Creator:
Davidson, Isabelle
Created:
2018-11-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
This is the story about the narrator's parents, who found love after coming from different backgrounds. The mother was a Moroccan Jew who had fled to Israel , and the father was a Polish Jew who had fled to the United States and met his wife on a trip to Israel. They moved to the United States and started a family, raising their children with el...
Creator:
Fine, Adam
Created:
2019-03-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Adam's father was born in Mexico and grew up in Los Angeles. His mother was born and raised in the Twin Cities. They met in Los Angeles in the 70's, where he and his brother were born. The family moved to Minnesota when he was still a baby. He has lived in Minnesota his entire life.
Creator:
Martinez, Adam
Created:
2014-03-20 - 2014-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Afsaneh Nozari and her family fled Iran after the Shah was overthrown. After enduring several hardships, she made it to the United States and began a new life there.
Creator:
Crawford, Catherine
Created:
2018-12-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Ahmay Ya was born in Burma in 1987. Her father is a well-known Karen activist, and Ahmay was forced to hide her true identity while growing up. During her final year of university, the Burmese government discovered the truth and she was forced to flee the country. She lived in a Thai refugee camp for several years before coming to the United St...
Creator:
Ya, Ahmay
Contributor:
Venditto, Elizabeth; Yang, Mai (Editor)
Created:
2015-03-20 - 2015-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Ahsan is a refugee from Afghanistan. He was separated from his family as they fled the Taliban and was the only one able to escape to Europe. He must now deal with a new culture while worrying about his family back home.
Creator:
Demmelmaier, Franziska
Created:
2019-01-31
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Aide Esthela Garcia was born in Mexico City, Mexico. She first came to Los Angeles, CA to visit her father. Nine months later, she moved to Minnesota. After working there for nine years, she began her studies at Century College in 2014.
Creator:
Garcia, Aide
Created:
2015-03-20 - 2015-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Aki Berndt was born in 1955 in Mönchengladbach, Germany. He married an American woman and lived in Berlin before moving to Minnesota in 2000. After he lost his job as an architect in 2009, he began to bake bread and opened his own bakery, Aki's BreadHaus, in Minneapolis in 2014.
Contributor:
Smith, Madison
Created:
2017-05-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Alaina Qurshi was born in Karachi, Pakistan. She moved to America with her mother at six months old to be with her father, who had been adopted into an American family at a young age. Although her father became very americanized, he still kept close contact with his family back in Pakistan remaining some tradition within his life, which then lea...
Creator:
Ryan Whitacre
Created:
2018-05-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Alejandra's mother was her first family member to emigrate to the United States. Alejandra stayed in Mexico with her father while her mother and later brothers emigrated, but she finally joined them in Minnesota years later.
Creator:
Cruz Blanco, Alejandra
Created:
2014-09-22 - 2014-12-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Alessandra Inojosa was born in Fortaleza, Brazil. She moved to the United States with her husband and son on September 3, 2011 because her husband, who worked from 3M, was transferred to Minnesota.
Creator:
Inojosa, Alessandra
Created:
2015-03-20 - 2015-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Alexa Brill was born in China in 1996. She was adopted at 9 months old and grew up in Seymour, Wisconsin. Alexa studied sociology and economics at St. Norbert College in DePere, Wisconsin.
Creator:
Sabrowsky, Kelly
Created:
2016-03-20 - 2016-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Alex Philstrom moved from England to the US with her family in 1982 when she was two years old. Because she was so young when she immigrated she quickly lost her accent, which she laments as an adult. Alex’s parents both have British accents. Alex passes as an American because she does not have an accent. Her parents, however, are asked where th...
Creator:
Philstrom, Alexandra
Created:
2017-08-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Alfonso Tinoco was born in 1999 in Uriangato, Mexico. In 2012 he moved to the United States with his mother and father. After a short time in Missouri, the family moved to Ohio. Though he spent his first two years in ESL courses, Alfonso moved into AP English in his third year.
Creator:
Whitted, Benjamin
Created:
2018-05-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Ali Salbri was born in Tunis, Tunisia in 1959. In 1981 Ali moved to Paris, France to study and returned home in 1983. He spent several years in Brussels and Oslo before moving back to Tunisia in 1989. In 1990 obtained a Canadian tourist visa and attempted to move there, spending 6 months in Berkeley. In 1995, after not being allowed to move to C...
Creator:
Raach, Malek
Created:
2017-11-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Alma Price was born in Mexico City, Mexico in 1976. After the death of her husband she decided to move to the United States with her two children. She now lives in Anchorage, Alaska.
Creator:
Pierce, Alma
Created:
2017-12-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Amara Baja was born in a refugee camp in Thailand. His family was resettled in the United States on August 10, 2010. The family first lived in Twin Falls, ID before relocating to St. Paul, Minnesota.
Creator:
Baja, Amara
Created:
2016-03-20 - 2016-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Amilyn grew up in the province of Abuyog Leyte, Phillipines with her parents and sibligns. She met her husband, an American, in the Phillipines. Amilyn came to the United STates in March 2006 to be with her hsuband. They live in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Creator:
Theisen, Amilyn
Created:
2015-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Amina was born in Somalia and came to Kenya as a refugee in 2005. She met and married her husband in Kenya. On July 23, 2013, she came to the United States. She lived in Boston for two months and then moving to Minnesota. She works and attends English as a Second Language classes. She had her husband have four children.
Creator:
Shire, Amina
Created:
2014-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Amir Hisham came to the United States from Malaysia to further his education. He dealt with language barriers and cultural differences, which he overcame with the help of friends and hard work.
Creator:
Takeshita, Dennis
Created:
2018-12-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Anab Adan Gulaid grew up in Hargeisa, Somalia. After the outbreak of the Somali civil war in late 1990, she left Somalia with several family members and moved to Toronto, Canada, where she went to school and became a Canadian citizen. After marrying her husband, she moved the United States, living first in Chicago and then Minnesota. She is a me...
Creator:
Gulaid, Anab
Created:
2015-07-11 - 2015-07-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Angelica Garcia was born in Cuichapa, Veracruz, Mexico in 1977. She moved to the United States with her husband without knowing much English. In 2014 she began taking English classes at Second Start.
Creator:
Garcia, Angelica
Created:
2017-09-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Anh-Thu Phan is a social justice activist who was born in Saigon, Vietnam. Her family left the country at the end of the American war in Vietnam. They resettled in Minnesota with the help of a Lutheran church. Motivated by her family’s experiences, Anh began her work as an anti-war activist with Amnesty International in her high school and joi...
Creator:
Pham, Anh-Thu
Created:
2014-09-22 - 2014-12-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
This story is about Anja Cain, who grew up in West Berlin. Her parents were resistance fighters against the Berlin Wall, leading to their hardship and her mother's capture. Anja then met her husband through mutual friends and they moved to the United States with their children, even though this was sometimes a difficult adjustment for Anja.
Creator:
Cain, Juliette
Created:
2018-11-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Chloe Pickwell tells the story of her mother's family migration to the United States from Scottland in the 1600s. The family worked mainly in agriculture.
Creator:
Chloe Pickwell
Created:
2018-05-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Antonio Gutierrez was born in La manzanilla Jalisco,Mexico on January 17,1951. At the age of 16 he was forced to immigrate to Californa. There he met and fell in love with Anna Wildman. This story was created by Emily Ramirez, a student at Berkeley City College.
Creator:
Ramirez, Emily
Created:
2017-12-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Archanaa Suntharalingam was born in Malaysia in 1995. She grew up in Kuala Lumpur and came to the United States in 2016 to study at the University of Minnesota.
Creator:
Star, Deena
Created:
2017-05-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Ariana Yang was born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1991. Her parents were from the Xiangkhoang province in Laos and were forced to flee the country because of the Secret War. They lived in refugee camps in Thailand before coming to the United States as refugees.
Creator:
Yang, Ariana
Created:
2015-05-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Arminda Rodriguez migrated from Mexico to the US illegally to provide a better life for her children. She underwent several hardships before becoming a legal resident and being able to give her children an education.
Creator:
Silva, Rubi
Created:
2019-12-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
This is the story of Ashley Montalvo's father and grandmother, who came to the mainland United States from Puerto Rico and, despite being citizens, faced discrimination and cultural barriers. Today, Ashley is aware of her heritage and partakes in a hybrid blend of cultures.
Creator:
Montalvo, Ashley
Created:
2018-11-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
This story is about the narrator's parents leaving China to escape the daily political repression they experienced there. They moved to Canada and then the United States, having to start over their careers from scratch while starting a family.
Creator:
Lee, Avery
Created:
2018-11-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Ayan Omar was born in Somalia in 1993. Her family left Somalia 2005 and went to Kenya. They came to the United States in 2007. Ayan is a student at Century College.
Creator:
Omar, Ayan
Created:
2015-03-20 - 2015-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Aye Mi San was born in the Karen state of Burma. She has two children, a daughter and a son. She arrived in the United States in December 2015. She currently lives in St. Paul and is a student at the Hubbs Center in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Creator:
San, Aye Mi
Created:
2015-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Azil Jahanbakhsh was born and grew up in Iran, but, after the tragic death of his older brother, moved with his family to Germany to have a fresh start. In Germany, he was discovered as a soccer star and moved to New York to play soccer, where he would settle down and start a family.
Creator:
Tiller, Jackson
Created:
2018-11-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Banlang Phommasouvanh was born in Laos in 1946. She studied in France on a scholarship. After the outbreak of war in Laos, she and her family fled the country and came to the United States. Banlang has a BA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and an MAE from Ball State University. She was a Minneapolis public school teacher.
Creator:
Phommasouvanh, Banlang
Contributor:
Venditto, Elizabeth; Tychsen, Ketmanee Mary (Editor)
Created:
2015
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
This is the story of Barry Sherbeck, who grew up traveling around the Middle East with his missionary parents. He frequently returned to the United States, including for his college education, but also explored South East Asia as part of his job, where he met his wife.
Creator:
Sherbeck, Dana
Created:
2019-05-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Beatriz Ibarra de Botero was born in Colombia in 1948. She came to the United States to join several of her children who were already living in the United States. She is currently working and studying English.
Creator:
Ibarra de Botero, Beatriz
Created:
2015-03-20 - 2015-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Bee was born in Xieng Khouang, Laos. His father died during the “Secret War” in Laos. Bee immigrated to the US in 1987 with his wife and children. He first settled in Wisconsin and later moved to Minnesota. He is currently the director of the Volunteers of America Park Elder Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Creator:
Vue, Bee
Contributor:
Yang, Mai (Editor, Translator)
Created:
2014-09-22 - 2014-12-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Belle "Bella" Friedman" was born in Chicago in 1916. Her parents and older siblings had emigrated from Lithuania in 1914. Bella married Haskell Friedman, who was also from a family of Jewish immigrants from Lithuania, in 1940. They raised their family in Jainesville, Wisconsin, where they ran a general store.
Creator:
Hill-Dongre, Marissa
Created:
2017-06-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Be Mo was born in Burma in 1993 and grew up in a Thai refugee camp. In 2007, her family moved to the United States, living first in Phoenix, AZ and then St. Paul, Minnesota. She is currently a student at St. Paul Community College.
Creator:
Mo, Be
Created:
2015-03-20 - 2015-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Betula Ali's family moved from Somalia to Ethiopia during a war. They came to the U.S. in 2012. Though it has taken them some time to navigate the new culture, weather, and language, they have overcame all of their challenges by supporting each other.
Creator:
Ali, Betula
Contributor:
Rolland, Isabella
Created:
2021-12-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Bing Hsiang Hsieh was born in China in 1925. He left his family and moved to Taiwan in 1940 to escape war, which is where he met his wife. This digital story is an excerpt from a larger family history project. The whole video can be seen at hsiehfamilyproject.com.
Creator:
Catedral, Lydia
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Binita Rai was born in a refugee camp in Nepal in 1997. Her parents were born in Bhutan but moved to Nepal because they were Nepali and could not stay during the civil war. In 2014, the family applied for resettlement in the United States. In September 2015, they resettled in Colorado. A year later they moved to Minnesota to join relatives alrea...
Creator:
Rai, Binita
Created:
2017-02-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Bridget Feeney grew up in the rural countryside of Ireland. She moved to the U.S. in 1900 to follow in her older sister's footsteps, and made a life for herself in Boston. Her great great granddaughter tells her story.
Creator:
Ferry, Jack
Contributor:
Rolland, Isabella
Created:
2021-12-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Buntanh Supantavong was born in Laos and attended Chulalongkorn University in Thailand for four years. He was a Buddhist monk for twenty years. His family fled Laos after 1975 and lived in Ubon Refugee Camp for several months. They resettled in Rochester, Minnesota where his sponsor, an American doctor who had opened in a clinic in Ubon Refugee...
Creator:
Ratsabout, Saengmany
Created:
2014-11-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Caceelia Moe was born in Chumphon, Thailand, in 1991. Her family moved to Mawker refugee camp in 1992 and Maneeloy refugee camp in 1999. Her family was resettled to St. Paul, Minnesota in 2001.
Creator:
Moe, Caceelia
Created:
2015-09-22 - 2015-12-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Candice Dea was brought the the United States by her parents from rural China when she was fifteen to give her political and economic opportunities she wouldn't have had in China. Following her love of children and helping people, Candice began a career as a preschool teacher and started a family of her own with her husband.
Creator:
Lee, Karyn
Created:
2018-12-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Caren Cazares was born in 1995. Both of her parents had immigrated to the United States from Mexico. She reflected on the impact of her mother on her life, especially as she was graduating from college in Minnesota.
Creator:
Van Eijl, Katie
Created:
2018-05-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Caroline Philpott was born in Taplow, England in 1978. She moved with her family to the US in 1982 when she was four. Because she was so young when she immigrated, she does not remember much about England or feel very connected to it, despite going back to visit in the fourth grade. Caroline received her undergraduate degree in Industrial Engine...
Creator:
Philstrom, Alexendra
Created:
2017-08-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Casimir Maurice Magnin was born in Charrot, Switzerland in 1866. He and his uncle migrated to the United States at the age of 18. Casimir settled in Wisconsin and sent for his family, who soon joined him.
Creator:
Vanden Bosch, Ashley
Created:
2016-03-20 - 2016-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Cassandra Yoo is the child of her Korean father and white, American mother and because of this, she has struggled to define her identity, never seeming to fit in with any one group. Her perception of her own race and ethnicity has changed throughout her academic career, influenced by her schoolmates, friends, family, and classes.
Creator:
Yoo, Cassandra
Created:
2018-12-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Cesar was born in Venezuela and moved to the U.S. with his mother with just a single bag of personal items. Though the transition was difficult, he is proud of who he is today.
Creator:
Mendez, Cesar
Contributor:
Horner, Kimberly
Created:
2023-12-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Cha Neng Vang was born in Laos in 1954. At the age of 14 he began playing the qeej. After entering the refugee camp he stopped playing the instrument until after he came to the United States in 2000.
Creator:
Van Eijl, Katie
Created:
2018-05-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Cha Toua Her was born and raised in Laos. He joined the Secret Army in Laos in 1967, when he was thirteen, becoming part of the Special Guerilla Unit (SGU). He was trained as a field medic and a dentist and eventually rose to the rank of Lieutenant. He was approved for resettlement to the United States in 1988, and he, his wife, and their seven...
Creator:
Her, Cha Toua
Contributor:
Her, Jesse (Editor)
Created:
2015-03-20 - 2015-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Chaw Sein was born in Umpiem Refugee Camp in Thailand in 2000. Her family had left Burma because of war. In 2008, her family resettled in the United States, living in Georgia for three years before moving to Minnesota.
Creator:
Sein, Chaw
Created:
2017-02-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Chee Vang was born in Mon-ya, Laos in 1946. She married Pa Ying Vue, a soldier who fought in the Secret War in Laos, and had five children. During the war, she led her family across the Mekong River into Thailand and lived with them in the jungle for three years. When her husband died, she moved her family into a Thai refugee camp around 1977. T...
Creator:
Lee, Mena
Created:
2016-12-13
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
His parents were born in Taiwan and moved to Thailand as adults. His brother was also born in Taiwan, moved to Thailand, and studied in the United States. Chen-Yu was born in Taiwan and moved to Thailand in November 1988. He lived and attended school in Bangkok, including an international high school where he learned English. He arrived in M...
Creator:
Wu, Chen-Yu (Andy)
Contributor:
Venditto, Elizabeth (Editor)
Created:
2013-09-22 - 2013-12-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Chieko grew up in Saitama and Isehara in Japan. Her husband, Kazuyoshi Yamaguchi, was stationed in Fort Ord, CA. He was in the U.S. military, had served as a paratrooper during the Vietnam War, and had a U.S. green card. She came with him to the United States in 1974 and left her parents and brother behind. Chieko's mother was not happy since ...
Creator:
Yamaguchi, Chieko
Contributor:
Yamaguchi, Joy (Editor)
Created:
2014-03-20 - 2014-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Chih-Lin (Amber) Chi was born in Taiwan in 1992. She grew up in Tai-chung and studied in Taipei. She came to the United States in July 2014 to study English so that she can eventually take over her parents' cycling factory.
Creator:
Chi, Chih-Lin
Created:
2015-03-20 - 2015-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Chiyoko was born in Yonabaru-shi, Kinawa-ken, Japan on February 17, 1940. She and her mother lived in Minami Daito, Okinawa (400 miles SE of Okinawa) during World War II. Chiyoke married an American soldier, Charles Swartz, who was stationed in Okinawa. They moved to the U.S. because of better job opportunities and because they thought they wo...
Creator:
Toguchi Swartz, Chiyoko; Hartmann, Benjamin
Created:
2014-03-20 - 2014-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Chiyou Moua was born in Bangkok, Thailand in 1990. He came to the United States as a refugee in 2004. He lived in Colorado until 2010, where he went to school and graduated from high school. His family moved to Minnesota and Chiyou got married in 2011. He is currently a student at St. Paul College.
Creator:
Moua, Chiyou
Created:
2015-03-20 - 2015-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Christopher Chavez's grandmother was born in El Salvador and his grandfather was born in Mexico. They met in Texas and moved into a house that Christopher was raised in. He reflects on his life with his family.
Creator:
Chavez, Christopher
Contributor:
Rolland, Isabella
Created:
2021-09-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Chuayi Yang was born in Gien, France in 1978 and lived in a small town, Aubigny-sur-Nere, with her family until 1990. That year, her parents moved their family to St. Paul, Minnesota in the United States. Chuayi studied in the St. Paul public school district and graduated from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities with a bachelors degree in En...
Creator:
Yang, Chuayi
Created:
2020-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Chung Hee No grew up in South Korea. She came to the U.S. in 1986 and spent 21 years working in a sweat shop in downtown Los Angeles where she worked long hours for little pay. She eventually became a manager in the factory. She later moved to St. Paul, Minnesota where she works and studies English at Neighborhood House.
Creator:
No, Chung Hee
Created:
2015-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Cierra Skyers came to the United States from Canada in 2012 to pursue college soccer opportunities. She has formed many relationships in the US and is planning to stay and become an educator. She feels that it is important to clarify misconceptions about Canadians and to give a foreigner's perspective on American culture.
Creator:
Fultz, Alli
Created:
2018-11-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Claudia's family immigrated to the U.S. from Piano di Sorrento, Italy. Claudia was born and grew up in New York. She studied at New York University and Hunter College. She works in the theater and teaches acting, voice and diction, and theater history from the middle school to university level.
Creator:
Terry, Claudia
Created:
2017-07-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Conrad Oddoye was born in 1998 in the United Kingdom. His parents are both from Ghana, met at university in Cuba in 1988. In 2005 his mother, younger brother, and himself moved to Canada, followed by his father several years later.
Creator:
Oddoye, Conrad
Created:
2018-02-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Crystal Young was born and lived in Lijiang, Yunnan province, China. She was a well-known singer there who owned her own bar. Her second husband was a U.S. military officer whom she married in 1995. They moved to Seattle, Washington. She was later joined there by her oldest daughter. Crystal works with the Seattle Ensemble of Songs and Dances.
Creator:
Young, Crystal; You, Xiao
Created:
2015-03-20 - 2015-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Daisy's mother was born in Puebla, Mexico. All of her siblings including Daisy were born in the U.S. When she created her digital story, she was a senior studying Political Science at the University of Minnesota and graduated in December 2014.
Creator:
Hidalgo, Daisy
Created:
2014-09-22 - 2014-12-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Damanta Basnet was born in Beldangi 2 refugee camp in Damak, Nepal. Her parents moved there after the Lhotsampas were forced to leave Bhutan in the 1990s. Damanta and her family moved to Minnesota in 2011 and overcame many obstacales while adjusting to the new culture.
Creator:
Basnet, Damanta
Contributor:
Rolland, Isabella
Created:
2021-05-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Dana Shkokani was born in 1997 in Palestine. On the anniversary of Nakba in 2013 her friend was shot through the chest for throwing a rock during a protest. She then decided to move. Dana came to the United States to attend Columbus State to study Computer Science and became interesting in social activism.
Creator:
Deslandes, Olivia
Created:
2018-04-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Dan Duong was born and raised in Vietnam until the end of 2010. After she graduated from high school in Vietnam, she realized that she would be unsatisfied with the trajectory of her life if her family were to stay in their home country, so she convinced her parents that they all needed to move to America for a better future. She attended high s...
Creator:
Thao, Joyce
Created:
2016-03-20 - 2016-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Daniel Castellon is a second-generation immigrant, raised in Texas by his father who is from El Salvador. He talks about his life growing up with his family in the U.S.
Creator:
Castellon, Daniel
Contributor:
Rolland, Isabella
Created:
2021-09-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Daniel Santoscoy spent his life traveling, across the United States and to Mexico, mostly for work. While he has never considered himself an immigrant, he has explored different cultures and geographies.
Creator:
Santoscoy, Nathan
Created:
2016-10-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Dante Candelario Pastrano was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. His family moved to San Juan, Puerto Rico, in 1966. He grew up and went to school there. He moved to Sioux City, IA, in 1987, where he worked in a meat-packing plant and computer manufacturing company. He moved to Minneapolis in 1996, where he worked at a computer company a...
Creator:
Pastrano, Dante
Contributor:
Venditto, Elizabeth (Editor)
Created:
2015
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
David Lenzi moved to the United States from Canada as young man for better educational opportunities in the scientific communities. He embraces the US's diversity and believes that distinctions shouldn't be made between immigrants and "natives" (except for Native Americans).
Creator:
Lenzi, Marco
Created:
2019-03-19
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
David Peal was born on the West Coast of Africa and moved to the U.S. because of a civil war in his country. He grew up in Massachusetts and then attended Gustavus Adolphus College. He reflects on his successes.
Creator:
Bradley, Andrew
Contributor:
Rolland, Isabella
Created:
2021-10-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Deborah Bisazza was born in Italy to wealthy parents. She met Anthony Allen, an American, while studying abroad in France. They lived together in Italy before moving to the United States, where they married and started a family.
Creator:
Allen, Marco
Created:
2019-05-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Dee Paw was born in Mae Ka Kee refugee camp in Thailand in 1996. Her family fled the Karen State, Burma in 1995 because of violence. Dee and her family lived in Thai refugee camps, where Dee went to school, until they resettled in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 2013.
Creator:
Paw, Dee
Created:
2017-02-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Derwin Halim was born in Jakarta, Indonesia in 1980. After graduating from high school, he moved to Minnesota in 1998 to pursue higher education, joining his older sister who was already living and studying in Minnesota. He studied at Normandale Community College and the University of Minnesota, where graduated in 2002 with a degree in electrica...
Creator:
Halim, Derwin
Contributor:
Venditto, Elizabeth (Editor)
Created:
2015-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Diana Ortiz was born in San Francisco, CA, in 2001. When she was six months old, her mother sent Diana to live with her grandparents in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Diana lived there until 2009, when she moved back to the United States.
Creator:
Ortiz, Diana
Created:
2017-05-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center