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Interview no. | R-0856 |
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 | 09 April 2016 |
Interviewee | Islas, Araceli Ortega. |
Interviewee occupation | Seamstresses |
Interviewee DOB | 1969 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Hispanic Americans and Latinos |
Interviewer | Efird, Lea. |
Abstract | Araceli Islas moved to the US from the Distrito Federal in Mexico 15 years ago and lives in Pikeville, NC. She has daughters who live in Mexico and sons who were born and live in the US, and has worked both in Mexico and the US as a seamstress. Her life in Pikeville is much different from the life she had in the D.F., particularly with regard to her family structure and her experiences with work and gender. She speaks about her childhood with a single mother who worked outside the home and a supportive extended family. She then speaks about her life now in the US as a working mother and how she misses this familial and community support that don’t exist for her here. Islas also discusses her past relationship partners with regard to the division of work inside the home, saying that men in the US are less likely to help at home with “women’s” work than in Mexico, where the whole family contributes to the upkeep of the home. She also comments on the limited mobility she has here versus the mobility she had in the D.F. and how that contributes to her lesser quality of life in NC. Finally, she discusses why she believes men in urban and rural spaces behave differently with regard to machismo, saying that men from small towns, whether in Mexico or the US, tend to be more sexist than those from her home city. |
Subject Topical Other |
Gender Family Labor and employment |
Citation | Interview with Araceli Islas by Lea Efird, 09 April 2016, R-0856, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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