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Interview no. | R-0867 |
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 March 2017 |
Interviewee | Leal, Laura Diaz. |
Interviewee occupation | Professors |
Interviewee DOB | 1955 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Hispanic Americans and Latinos |
Interviewer | Steiner, Elsa. |
Abstract | Laura discusses how she decided to become a professor of sociology and a family therapist. She explains how she became involved in the topic of migration and started to do research on the interviews collected in the New Roots Oral History collection. Laura discusses another project in which she provided therapy to migrants who were victims of trauma and violence over Skype. She shares how she as a therapist is able to continue doing such emotionally draining work and what some of her coping mechanisms are to avoid burn out. Based on her research, she explains the differences between the migration experiences of men and women as well as some of the most complicated aspects of migration. She talks about the increase in women who migrate to the United States and offers an explanation of why this demographic shift is occurring. She also explains the impact of migration on both Mexico and the United States. At the end of the interview she explains some of the consequences of living in the United States without documentation. |
Subject Topical Other |
Citizenship and immigration Gender Separation and reunification Migratory experience |
Citation | Interview with Laura Diaz Leal by Elsa Steiner, 09 March 2017, R-0867, 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. | R0867_Audio |