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Interview no. | R-0717 |
Restrictions | Closed until 2019. |
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 | 04 Apr 2014 |
Interviewee | X, Ángeles, pseud. |
Interviewee occupation | Food service employees |
Interviewee ethnicity | Hispanic Americans and Latinos |
Interviewer | Stewart, Lindsay. |
Abstract | Ángeles (pseudonym) emigrated from El Salvador to the United States in 1997. Fleeing a husband who mistreated her, Ángeles first migrated to Mexico where she worked for over a year in a banana packing plant before she joined her siblings in the Durham, North Carolina area. Ángeles describes the challenges of crossing the borders between El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico and the United States, but also the social networks that facilitated her migration to, and working experience in, the United States. She had a couple of jobs before getting a worker’s permit and her current job in a dining hall on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus where she has enjoyed working with other immigrants, especially those from Myanmar, as well as others from Latin America, for the past thirteen years. |
Subject Topical Other |
Culture Gender Labor and employment Migratory experience Social networks |
Citation | Interview with Ángeles X, pseud. by Lindsay Stewart, 04 April 2014, R-0717, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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