Zaki Omar was born in Somalia in 1985. He attended Shafii Secondary School. He moved to Qatar for several years because of the situation in Somalia, but he could not go to school. He moved to the United States in September 2014 and lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His goal is to obtain a high level of education.
Creator:
Omar, Zaki
Created:
2015-04
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
This is a survey of the Thomases family, tracing the family tree back to the early 1900s when Zachary's ancestors came to the United States from Poland to escape anti-Semitic persecution.
Creator:
Thomases, Zachary
Created:
2019-03-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Yuri Noda was born in Japan and raised by a single mother, who encouraged her to explore the world. As part of this journey, she became a youth representative to Canada and studied there, where she worked to balance pressure and enjoyment.
Creator:
Noda, Yuri
Created:
2019-07-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Yubin Sun was born in South Korea, went to college in Japan, and is now an international student at the University of Minnesota. Her journey was delayed because of Covid-19, but she is grateful for her experiences.
Creator:
Sun, Yubin
Contributor:
Rolland, Isabella
Created:
2022-04-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Yeshi Gongpatsang was forced to flee her home country of Tibet in 1969 when the Chinese Communist Party invaded. When she came to the U.S., she still risked her life by doing a hunger strike to raise awareness about injustices in Tibet.
Creator:
Lobsang, Ngawang
Contributor:
Rolland, Isabella
Created:
2022-04-26
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Yesenia Moran Flores was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. Her parents migrated from central Mexico to Minnesota when her mother was pregnant. Her parents owned a restaurant in Maplewood, Minnesota from 2004 to 2008. Yesenia is a student at St. Paul College.
Creator:
Moran Flores, Yesenia
Created:
2015-03-20 - 2015-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Yeng was born in Moos Manj, Laos. She and her family fled across the Mekong River into Thailand after the communist takeover of Laos. She lived in Nong Khai and Ban Vinai Camps in Thailand. She has 10 surviving children, 11 in total. She emigrated in 1988 to America.
Creator:
Xiong, Yeng
Contributor:
Yang, Mai (Editor, Translator)
Created:
2014-09-22 - 2014-12-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
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.
Creator:
Naung, Yan; Yi, Kevin
Created:
2014-03-20 - 2014-06-20
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
Xia Phia Yang was born in Laos into a family of 12. His family fled to Thailand in 1979. They lived in the Ban Vinai refugee camp until 1992, and there he went to school, worked as a nurse and a public health worker, and started a family of his own. His family was transferred to the Phanat Nikhon camp after Ban Vinai closed, and they lived there...
Creator:
Yang, Xai Phia
Contributor:
Yang, Mai (Editor, Translator)
Created:
2015-03
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
William Nyang'un, the youngest of five children, was born in Kenya in 1990. His mother moved to the United States when he was six months old, leaving him in the care of his family. His siblings later moved to the United States too, and William joined them in 2012, moving first to Virginia and then Minnesota. He has studied at Minneapolis Commun...
Creator:
Nyang'un, William
Created:
2015-03-20 - 2015-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
This is the story about a possible family ancestor, William B. Story, who immigrated from Britain to the American colonies, likely for religious reasons.
Creator:
Story, Spencer
Created:
2018-05-17
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Wilhelm Hepting was born in a German-speaking community in Manitoba, Canada during 1903. In 1918 he became ill and nearly died. In 1922 he moved to Saint Paul, Minnesota to attend seminary at Concordia, Saint Paul. He spent the remainder of his life as a Pastor in different rural Missouri Lutheran parishes.
Creator:
Hartmann, Benjamin
Created:
2017-12-04
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