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Interview no. | R-0671 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | R.34. Special Research Projects: New Roots |
Project description | Interviews, 2007-ongoing, focus on issues related to Latin American immigration to North Carolina and the formation of Latino communities. Interviewers are conducted by undergraduate students in courses taught by Hannah Gill at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Interviewees include immigrants, United States-born second generations, professionals who work with immigrants, policy-makers, religious leaders, educators, students, and local business owners. |
Date | 10 April 2013 |
Interviewee | Ramírez, Mirna. |
Interviewee occupation | Students |
Interviewee DOB | 1991 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Hispanic Americans and Latinos |
Interviewer | Gagnon, Kelly Dean. |
Abstract | Mirna Ramirez is a Junior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) studying political science. Her parents and older sister were born in Mexico and immigrated to the United States before she was born. Ramirez was born in Montana, but grew up in Columbia, N.C. after her family moved there when she was two years old. She took English as a second language (ESL classes) for numerous years. Ramirez still has a number of relatives living in Mexico to date, and gives a lot of her information based upon them, her parents, and her undocumented boyfriend. She discusses on her parents' path to the United States, her own experiences and the experiences of her sister and friends in ESL classes, the path to becoming a citizen and the current immigration reform, racial profiling, as well as her boyfriend's experience applying for the Deferred Action for Children Arrivals (DACA). |
Subject Topical Other |
Family Education Language and communication DREAMers and DACA Citizenship and immigration |
Citation | Interview with Mirna Ramirez by Kelly Gagnon, 10 April 2013, R-0671, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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Interview no. | R0671_Audio |