Browse Items (15 total)

  • Collection: U.S. Immigration Station & Assay Office (INS)

Vivien Sharples

Vivien Sharples.pdf
Oral History Interview with Vivien Sharples

Tour of INS Building

Tour.pdf
Cassie Chinn, Jeni Fung, Dori Cahn and Jay Stansell tour the INS Building

Seyed Mohamed Maulana

Maulana.pdf
Former Swahili instructor at University of Washington, Seyed Maulana recounts his childhood in Mombasa, before his immigration ot the United States. In the US, he depicts his immigration process, and how a strong education made the process easier for…

Mozhdeh Oskouian

Mozhdeh.pdf
Mozhdeh Oskouian was born in Tehran in 1966. Her father was in the Shah's Air Force, but after some persuasion from her mother during the Islamic Revolution, Mozdeh left her home country and immigrated to Seattle. Her asylum lawyer's poor performance…

Miyo Ike

Miyo Ike.pdf
Miyo Ike describes her life as a Seattle native, her experiences at the Minidoka internment camp, and her visits to her relatives in Hiroshima. She depicts her experiences with the INS Building during its use as a detention center for single Japanese…

Ming Ng

Ming.pdf
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…

Mikio Tajima

Mikio Tajima.pdf
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…

Many Uch and Jay Stansell

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

Li Chang Wong

Li Chang Wong.pdf
Oral History Interview with Li Chang Wong

Joseph Pham and Nova Phung

Joseph Nova.pdf
This is an oral history of Joseph Pham and Nova Phung and their immigration to the United States from Vietnam. They each explain the process of how they both were refugees fleeing from Vietnam and how they both were interpreters at the INS Building.