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
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
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
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
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
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
Kelly Wong was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1996. Her family immigrated to New York City when she was a child, and she grew up in Brooklyn and Staten Island. She studied at the University of Minnesota.
Creator:
Wong, Kelly
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Lawrence is a student from China who came to the United States for education and moved to the Philippines to become a doctor. He compared the Philippines to the United States in terms of Costco and the American values the store represents.
Creator:
Yelda, Erin
Created:
2018-12-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Leah Herder was born in Changde, China in 1996. In 1997, she was adopted by an American couple. She grew up in Ohio and Wisconsin and studied at the University of Minnesota.
Creator:
Yukioka, Haruka
Created:
2016-12-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Melissa Kwon was born and raised in California and later moved to Minnesota. Her paternal grandparents immigrated to the US from China via Angel Island. She is a third and fourth generation Chinese American.
Creator:
Kwon, Melissa
Created:
2015-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Michelle Kiang was born in Venezuela. In 1999, after the election of Hugo Chávez, her family relocated to Houston, Texas. Michelle graduated from Macalester College in 2015.
Creator:
Kiang, Michelle; Abaki Beck, Michelle
Created:
2014-09-22 - 2014-12-21
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
This story is about the narrator's experience moving to the US from China to study and the culture clash she experienced This is especially the case with race, as the narrator, moving from a majority to a minority, considers what her race actually means to her and those around her.
Creator:
Hu, Shuiyi
Created:
2019-05-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Sophie Navarro was born in Wuhan, China and adopted at five months old by a family from San Francisco. She grew up there and later moved to St. Paul, Minnesota to attend Macalester College.
Creator:
Navarro, Sophie
Created:
2014-09-22 - 2014-12-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Tianyi Kou was born in China in 1995. She first came to the United States as an international transfer student and studied at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
Creator:
Kou, Tianyi
Created:
2017-05-06
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
Wei-Min Hsu is a researcher at Pintung University in Taiwan. He reflects on his time in Anchorage, Alaska studying mathematics education and the development of mathematic curriculum for indigenous populations.
Creator:
Hsu, Wei-Min
Created:
2017-12-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Xu Zou was born in 1986 in Sichan, China. He attended the University of Minnesota and received a Ph. D. in Chemistry. In 2013 Xu married his husband Aaron.
Creator:
Philstrom, Alexandra
Created:
2017-08-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
