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Mikio Tajima grew up in Japan during World War II. In college, he decided to come to the United States to study, but the foreign student adviser who wrote his exchange student letter made a typo and Mikio ended up spending his first night in the US…

Oral History Interview with Many Uch and Jay Stansell at the INS Building

Ming Ng, with the assistance of a translator, discusses her childhood growing up and working in Hong Kong in the 1950s and 60s to help her parents make money to support her younger siblings' educations. She talks about meeting her husband through a…

David Ayala gives an overview of his life as his church's youth leader, then a union activist during the El Salvadorian Civil War. He also describes his experiences on both sides of immigration, as an immigrant himself, and then as an organizer for…

Daughter of an ambassador, Jacque Larrainzar grew up in Mexico City where she was constantly threatened for her sexual identity. After being kidnapped and brutalized for being a lesbian, Jacque moved to the United States, where she became the first…