Sadia Abdewali was born in Somalia in 1994. She moved to Kenya in 1999, Minnesota in 2000, and then Seattle, WA, where she grew up. She moved back to Minnesota in 2014 and is studying to be a K-5th grade teacher.
Creator:
Abdewali, Sadia
Contributor:
Wilhide, Andy
Created:
2015-03-20 - 2015-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Fartun Abdi was born in Somalia and raised in Kenya. Her family moved to Tanzania and Ethiopia before settling in Minnesota. She graduated from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in 2012. After graduation, she worked for Lutheran Social Services as an immigration specialist.
Creator:
Abdi, Fartun
Created:
2012-03-20 - 2012-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Diib Abdullahi was born in Somalia in 1987. Her family moved to Kenya in 1991 after the outbreak of civil war in Somalia. They lived there until her brother, who was living in the United States, sponsored them to come to Minnesota in 2006. She is currently a student at Century College.
Creator:
Abdullahi, Diib
Contributor:
Wilhide, Andy (Editor)
Created:
2015-03-20 - 2015-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Subash Gupta moved to England from Ludhiana, India. There he met his wife and both then moved to Canada to work in a factory. They slowly earned enough money to provide a good life for their three children.
Creator:
Agarwal, Jayden
Created:
2018-11-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Mohamed Kassim Ahmed was born in Mogadishu, Somalia. He left Somalia in 2008 because of continued instability and moved to Uganda, where he continued high school. He was able to resettle in the United States in 2013. He is currently a student at St. Paul College.
Creator:
Ahmed, Mohamed
Created:
2015-03-20 - 2015-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Rehima was born in Nazret, Ethiopia. Her family is Gurage. She went to Qatar in 2007 and came to the United States in 2011, living briefly in Ohio, then in Dallas, and now Minnesota. Her father, Nasir Ahmed, and her mother, Shetu Mohammed, remained in Ethiopia along with her siblings.
Creator:
Ahmed, Rehima
Created:
2014-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Hyunjin has a father, mother, and twin sister. He has lived and studied in Korea, India, and New Zealand. He arrived in Minnesota in August 2013 to study engineering at the University of Minnesota.
Creator:
Ahn, Hyunjin; Stigman, Cori (Sunyang)
Created:
2014-03-20 - 2014-06-20
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
Fadumo left Somalia 1989 and lived in the United Arab Emirates for 20 years. Her husband lost his job in 2009 during the financial crisis, so Fadumo and her eight children moved to New Dehli, India, on student visas. Her husband could not get a visa and returned to Somalia. After five years, they came to the U.S. as refugees in 2013. They li...
Creator:
Ali, Fadumo
Created:
2015-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Wise Ali was born in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1989. His family left Somalia in 1991 to escape the civil war. He moved to Kenya and lived there for 21 years in refugee camps. In 2012, he moved to the U.S. with the help of the UNHCR. He is currently a student at St. Paul College.
Creator:
Ali, Wise
Created:
2015-03-20 - 2015-06-20
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
This is the story of Maria Chavarin, who got married at the age of twelve and started a home and business with her husband. When money ran out, her husband worked in the United States through the bracero program and Maria followed him to work the fields as well. After having twelve children, Maria and her husband moved back to Mexico.
Creator:
Alonso, Fernanda
Created:
2018-05-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Silvia Alvarez de Davila was born in Guatemala in 1960 and grew up during the civil war. She studied at San Carlos University. She and her family moved to the United States in 2004 so that she could pursue her Ph.D. in education at the University of Minnesota. She currently works with the University of Minnesota Extension at the Center for Fami...
Creator:
Alvarez de Davila, Silvia
Created:
2015-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Nicholas Victor Ambrose (Vito Nicola Ambrosecchia) was born in Corleto Perticara, Italy in 1904. When he was eight, he migrated to the United States with his mother and brothers to rejoin his father in Connecticut. He lived in Boston, California, Virginia, Panama, and Argentina before marrying his wife Anna and raising a family in Brooklyn.
Creator:
Ambrose, Dominic
Created:
2017-06-29
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
John discusses family “ghosts,” deceased family members in both the paternal and maternal branches of his Italian-American family. His paternal side’s ghost was Giovanni (John) Andreozzi, his father’s biological father. Giovanni came from Falvaterra, Lazio, Italy to the United States in 1909. He married John’s grandmother, Vincenza Limongiell...
Creator:
Andreozzi, John
Contributor:
Schell, Justin (Editor)
Created:
2013-03-20 - 2013-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Hillary Arias Rangel was born in Tarímbaro, Michoacán, Mexico in 1998. When she was three years old, she and her grandmother moved to Minnesota to join her parents, who had lived there since Hillary was a year old. Hillary stayed in Minnesota until she was thirteen, when she accompanied her grandmother back to Mexico while her grandmother sought...
Creator:
Arias Rangel, Hillary
Created:
2017-05-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
This is the story of Rosa Arteaga, who grew up in an abusive household in Mexico. She grew up taking care of her family amidst her parents' divorce and came to the United States to earn enough to buy a home for her mother and herself in order to reunite her family.
Creator:
Arteaga, Sarai
Created:
2018-10-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
She was born in the Philippines in 1996 and moved to America when she was 6 years old in October of 2002. She is the oldest of 4 children, 1 boy and 2 girls. My mother is a nurse and father is a counselor.
Creator:
Asuncion, Faye Avery
Created:
2014-09-22 - 2014-12-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Nora Avila de Martinez was born in Mexico. She left Mexico in 1998, and she and her husband moved to St. Paul that December. Since then, she has worked at the YMCA. She is also a student at Century College studying nursing.
Creator:
Avila de Martinez, Nora
Created:
2015-03-20 - 2015-06-20
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
This story is about how the parents of Jesus Balderrama immigrated from Mexico in order to give their children better opportunities. Balderrama recounts the struggles of growing up in poverty and of being an intermediary between his parents and the English-speaking world around them.
Creator:
Balderrama, Jesus
Created:
2019-05-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Gerri Balter was born and raised in North Minneapolis in 1944. Her parents immigrated to the United States from Ukraine to rejoin their fathers, who were living and working in Minneapolis. Gerri graduated from North High School in 1962 and received her B.A. from the University of Minnesota in 1966. She was a Vista volunteer from 1966-1967. She i...
Creator:
Balter, Gerri
Contributor:
Wilhide, Andy (Editor)
Created:
2015-03-20 - 2015-06-20
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
Rodrigo Botero Ibarra was born in Cali, Colombia in 1970. He graduated from the Universidad del Valle with a degree in topographic engineering and worked as a topographic engineer and university instructor. He came to the United States in 2014 to study English at the University of Minnesota in the hopes of pursuing a PhD at the University.
Creator:
Botero Ibarra, Rodrigo
Created:
2015-03-20 - 2015-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Vongsavanh Boutsavath was born in Laos in 1936. He was the General Commissioner for Rural Affairs of the Royal Lao Government from 1966 to 1973. He was also a lecturer at the Royal Institute of Law and Administration of the Sisavong University from 1968 to 1973. From 1973 to 1975, he served as a senator in the Kingdom of Laos. After the communis...
Creator:
Boutsavath, Vongsavanh
Contributor:
Venditto, Elizabeth (Editor)
Created:
2015-04
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
Vincenta Jasiewicz immigrated to the United States from Poland at the age of 16. After her first husband tragically died, she remarried and raised 5 children in a Polish enclave of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Her story is told by her granddaughter.
Creator:
Brandenburg, Ashley
Contributor:
Rolland, Isabella
Created:
2021-03-24
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
Maria Camila Palacio was born in 1992 in Bogota Columbia. In 2015 she moved to Chicago, Illinois to attend Loyola University and work towards her master's degree
Creator:
Camila Palacio, Maria
Created:
2016-11-30
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
Kim's father, Thong Tran, was born in Bien Hoa, Vietnam. He fought in the American war in Vietnam and came to the United States in 1985. Kim is married to a man from Nicaragua and has two children. She tries to preserve and maintain her Vietnamese culture through the Vietnamese cuisine she cooks for her family.
Creator:
Castillo, Kim
Created:
2014-09-22 - 2014-12-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
This story is about Maria Andres, a DACA recipient whose mother brought her to the United States from Mexico when she was young. Life was difficult for Maria and her mother as they adjusted to the culture and strove to make a living. Today, Maria is worried about her precarious political position and works to maintain her Mexican culture.
Creator:
Catacoly, Jamila
Created:
2018-12-11
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
Henry Chacon Arevalo was born in Honduras in 2004. His dad moved to the U.S. when he was 2 months old and Henry was able to move there with him when he was 13.
Creator:
Chacon Arevalo, Henry Jeovany
Contributor:
Rolland, Isabella
Created:
2021-09-25
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
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
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
Vincent Choi was born in Hong Kong in 1994. Though Vincent did not try very hard in high school, he decided to move to the United States and go to school to become a surgeon.
Creator:
Choi, Vincent
Created:
2016-11-27
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
JeongHeon Cho experienced the frustrations of setting up a new life in Japan after moving there from South Korea to study. Transactions which were simple back home and came naturally to Japanese were confusing to an outsider unfamiliar with the system and the language.
Creator:
Cho, JeongHeon
Created:
2019-07-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Lien Chung grew up affluent in Vietnam, but was forced to leave by the rise of the Vietcong and the ensuing war. Her escape was a harrowing and traumatic journey involving starvation and pirate attacks. She was eventually relocated to the United States and adjusted to the new culture with difficulty.
Creator:
Chung, Kalvin
Created:
2019-03-19
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
Sara and her sister Katie were both born in Anaheim, CA. Her father came from the Philippines with his family as a young boy. Her mother, Donna, is white.
Creator:
Cronquist, Sara
Created:
2014-03-20 - 2014-06-20
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
Hodan Dahir was born in Somalia. She later lived in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya before resettling to the United States with her family in 207. She moved to Buffalo, NY and now lives in Minneapolis. She works at an adult day care.
Creator:
Dahir, Hodan
Created:
2015-03-20 - 2015-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Michaela Sanchez was born in Lima, Peru in 1996. In 2000 her family and her moved to Salt Lake City, Utah. Over time, her family became more connected to their new community, while still working to retain their Peruvian culture.
Creator:
Dahlstrom, Jack
Created:
2018-04-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Saw Eh Tha Dah was born in 2001 in Ban Don Yang Refugee Camp in Thailand. His family was from Burma, but were forced to flee in fear of the government. He and his family moved from the refugee camp to Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Creator:
Dah, Saw
Created:
2018-03-15
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
Grace Deaneh was born in Monrovia, Liberia. Her mother came to the United States when she was eleven years old, and Grace lived with her uncle in Liberia. Grace
Creator:
Deaneh, Grace
Created:
2015-03-20 - 2015-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Eve Dean comes from a family which has moved between the US and Europe frequently for work reasons. She has spent much time in Switzerland and with her French grandmother.
Creator:
Dean, Eve
Created:
2019-12-03
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
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
Nafisa Diriye was born in Somalia. She and her family moved to Nairobi, Kenya when she was seven years old. In 2006, her brother, who was living in the United States, sponsored her family and they moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota. She graduated from Edison High School in 2010. In February 2014, she returned to Somalia for the first time since...
Creator:
Diriye, Nafisa
Created:
2015-03-20 - 2015-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Myla Lavapie Dizon was born and grew up in San Pablo City, Laguna province, Philippines. She and her three children immigrated to the United States in 2012 after receiving authorization to rejoin her husband, who had come to the US five years earlier. The family settled in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Creator:
Dizon, Myla
Created:
2015-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Duncan McNab was born in Scotland in 1837 and taken to Canada when he was eleven. His mother and brother died from smallpox on the voyage. He farmed in Canada before moving to the United States, serving in the Union Army, and starting a family on land which reminded him of home.
Creator:
Dunn, Molly
Created:
2019-05-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Ricardo Perez grew up in Tijuana, Mexico, pursuing and eventually achieving his dream of running a horse track to train horses and to marry and start a family. However, his horse track burned to the ground one day, forcing him and his wife to move in with his wife's family in California, where Ricardo started over his horse training career from ...
Creator:
Durgen, Madeline
Created:
2018-12-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Robbie Aparicio was born in Cancun, Mexico and moved to Minnesota to play football and study History at Gustavus Adolphus College. He was drawn to college in the U.S. by the opportunity to continue playing football at a higher level, and was influenced by his dad who had coached him when he was growing up.
Creator:
Durham, Kevin
Contributor:
Rolland, Isabella
Created:
2021-10-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Harlad Fredrikson was born in Ostersund, Sweden in 1997. In 2015, he was able to spend a year studying at an American high school in Olivia, Minnesota. He hopes to return to the United States for college.
Creator:
Ebnet, Breckan
Created:
2018-02-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Elene Ejigu was born in Dessie, Ethiopia in 1997. Her father died unexpectedly in 2003, and the following year, her mother won the Diversity Visa Lottery and moved to the United States. Elene and her sister lived with their grandparents in Ethiopia until they were able to reunite with their mother in the United States when Elene was 11.
Creator:
Ejigu, Elene
Created:
2017-05-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Fahima Hanosh was born in Mardin, Syria, 1901. She emigrated to the United States in 1920 to rejoin several members of her family who had already emigrated. She married Joseph Anton, a fellow Syrian immigrant, in 1922, and they divorced in 1927. Soon after, she married John (Jack) Oirathy, another Syrian immigrant.
Creator:
Elizabeth Barrett Sullivan
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Walter Kohlstrunk was born in Germany in 1892. He served in the German army from 1910-1912. When he was released, he worked on a passenger steamship to travel the world. When Germany entered World War I and recalled its former soldiers to fight, Walter did not want to go and left his ship in New York City. He later settled in New Jersey, married...
Creator:
Elyssa Bisoski
Created:
2020-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Nelsie Yang was born in Minnesota, USA in 1995. Her parents were Hmong refugees who came to the United States because of the Secret War in Laos. Her experiences of racism in the United States and discrimination she observed as a study abroad student in Thailand led her to become active in political and social justice movements in Minnesota.
Creator:
Erin Gilbertson
Created:
2016-12-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Lillian Gamm arrived at Ellis Island from Russia on April 19, 1910. While living in Manhattan, she worked hard as a bookkeeper, raised a family, and pursued her dreams.
Creator:
Feldman, Jonah
Contributor:
Rolland, Isabella
Created:
2022-05-02
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
Her parents settled in Minnesota after fleeing Vietnam and previously living in refugee camps. By the time she was born, her family was able to travel back to Vietnam. Most of her family lives and grew up in the U.S. She says that even though she is American by nationality, she longs to be in Vietnam again.
Creator:
Fetter, Lisa (Elizabeth)
Created:
2014-06
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
Maria José Flórez García was born and raised in Bucaromonga, Colombia. She grew up with her parents and old brothers, and all are avid tennis players. Her brother was her tennis instructor for a few years. On December 15, 2014 she came to the United States for her family, to study English, and in the hopes of earning a college scholarship.
Creator:
Flórez García, Maria José
Created:
2015-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Nancy Fong (Kong Y Yee) was born in Kowloon, Hong Kong. She and her family moved to the United States in 1962 to reunite with her father, who had come to the United States in 1960 in search of work. Nancy grew up in Chicago.
Creator:
Fong, Nancy; Alizarin Menninga, Nancy
Created:
2014-09-22 - 2014-12-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Salahadin Abda was born in Bale Robe in the Oromia region of Ethiopia in the 1980's. He left Ethiopia after graduating high school and lived in refugee camps in Kenya, where he met his wife. His wife and her family resettled in the United States, and he later joined them in Minnesota.
Creator:
Frandzel, Ariel
Created:
2017-05-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Mary Fray was born Anna Maria DiMillo in Roccamarice, Pescara, Italy in 1925. She and her family immigrated to the United States when she was six, and she grew up in Portland, Maine. In 1942, she moved to Chicago to study at the Art Institute of Chicago. She married William Fray, the son of Swedish immigrants, in the early 1950s, and raised he...
Creator:
Fray, Mary
Created:
2015-03-20 - 2015-06-20
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
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
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
Sylvia Garcia was born in California in 1980. Her father was a Mexican immigrant and her mother born in the United Stated. During childhood the family would travel back to Mexico every December.
Creator:
Garcia, Sylvia
Created:
2017-07-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Ta Nay Gay was born in Burma. Her family faced restrictions and violence from the Burmese military because they are Karen. Her family left the country for Thailaind in 2006, where they lived in a refugee camp until 2012, when they were resettled in Minnesota. She has four sisters and two brothers.
Creator:
Gay, Ta Nay
Created:
2016-03-20 - 2016-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Simon Ghilamichael grew up in Eritrea. Before coming to the United States, he worked in Sudan, Egypt, and Israel. He came to Minnesota to reunite with his brother. He works as a cook and is a student at the Hubbs Center. He speaks Belin, Tigrinya, Tigre, Arabic, Hebrew, and English.
Creator:
Ghilamichael, Simon
Created:
2015-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Sarah Ella Giefer talks about a book belonging to her family,a personal encyclopedia of Giefers. The book is called "The Giefer Family in Germany and the United States". It has 2 volumes, 700 pages, and has information in it on hundreds of Giefers.
Creator:
Giefer, Sarah Ella
Created:
2017-12-18
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Natasha Reika Gomez’s father, who was originally from Colombia, met her mother while he was enlisted in the U.S. Navy and stationed in Yokosuka, Japan. Natasha was born on the Navy base in 1993. Her family relocated to the United States when she was approximately six years old.
Creator:
Gomez, Natasha
Created:
2015-03-20 - 2015-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Viviane Clausset was born in Nancy, France in 1936. Her father was a German POW during WWII. Proficient in French, German, and English, she took a job as a secretary for the US Army in 1953. She married an American GI in 1958 and returned with him to Virginia, Minnesota in 1958. She later lived in Columbia Heights, Minnesota and, after remarryin...
Creator:
Graupmann, Claire
Created:
2016-03-20 - 2016-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
In 2000 Norma Guevara was born in Tegucigala Honduras. In 2007 she moved to the United States with her family, where she found many differences from her birth country.
Creator:
Guevara, Norma
Created:
2017-05-09
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
Katrina Gustafson was born in Wheeling, IL in 1994. Her mother had migrated to the United States from the Philippines, and her maternal grandparents moved to the United States to be with her family during Katrina
Creator:
Gustafson, Katrina
Created:
2015-03-20 - 2015-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
