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
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
Diana Said was born in Romania in 1967. She married an Egyptian man, Ismail Said, and they lived in Romania with their daughter Aida until they won the U.S. Diversity Visa lottery. They immigrated to the U.S. in 2002 and has two more children.
Creator:
Said, Amira
Created:
2017-05-21
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
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
He is an entrepaneur and community advocate. He was born in Boston, MA while his father was in graduate school in the United States. Ederick was raised in Venezuela and left in his 20's because instability there. He moved to Chicago and finally settled in Minnesota in his late 20's. He is the co-founder of Ra
Creator:
Lokpez, Ederick
Contributor:
Venditto, Elizabeth; Tychsen, Ketmanee Mary (Editor); Guzman, Ricardo Bennett (Translator)
Created:
2015
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Eduardo SchianodiCola was born in 1965 in Monte Di Procida, Italy. In 1987 he flew to the New York with some friends and then drove to Baltimore and began to work there. In 1995 he married his wife. In 2004 he became an American citizen.
Creator:
ScianodiCola, Ida
Created:
2017-10-30
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Eh Ka Pu Moo was born in Burma in 1999. She moved to Thailand when she was two and went to school in a refugee camp. Her family later resettled in the United States and she is a student at Washington High School in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Creator:
Moo, Eh Ka Pu
Created:
2016-03-20 - 2016-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Eh Sar, a Karen refugee, was born in Thailand in 1998. Her older brother and parents were born in Burma, but the family was forced to enter a Thai refugee camp in February 1998. Eh lived in Meh Ka Kan Camp and Mae La Oo Camp before her family resettled in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA in June 2011. She is a student at Washington School.
Creator:
Sar, Eh
Created:
2016-03-20 - 2016-06-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
Eileen Zrubeck uses the rich documentation of her family history, especially the letters of John W. Watson, to better understand her own heritage and how that helped determine her place in American society today.
Creator:
Zrubek, Eileen
Created:
2018-12-03
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center
This is a family history, starting from a tragic family visit to Canada from Austria, and ending a few generations later in Atlanta, Georgia. Because of the different wars the family lived through, they were perceived differently in every community in which they lived.
Creator:
Prioleau, Isabel
Created:
2018-11-29
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
Elias Lenz confronts his own racial, cultural, and ethnic identity when he learns of a previously-unknown grandfather, who is Afro-Cuban. An interaction with some Latina classmates made him reevaluate how he is perceived by others and by himself.
Creator:
Lenz, Elias
Created:
2019-04-28
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Immigration History Research Center