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Interview no. | R-0482 |
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 | 2 April 2011 |
Interviewee | X, Alejandro, pseud. |
Interviewee occupation | Students |
Interviewee DOB | 1989 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Hispanic Americans and Latinos |
Interviewer | Herrera, Linda Stephanie. |
Abstract | Alejandro is a senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, double majoring in Biology and Spanish with a minor in Chemistry and hopes to go to medical school. He and his family are from Mexico and are currently living in Salisbury, North Carolina. Alejandro came to the United States when he was eleven years old and considers himself to have been brought up in American culture. In this interview, Alejandro discusses the family's move to the United States and the difficulties he has experienced as an undocumented immigrant. Alejandro talks about his frustration with the current political and legal situation of immigration in the United States, the obstacles undocumented students face trying to go to college and his hopes that his own legal status can be resolved in the future. |
Subject Topical Other |
Citizenship and immigration DREAMers and DACA Education Identity Migratory experience |
Citation | Interview with Alejandro X, pseud., by Linda Stephanie Herrera, 02 April 2011, R-0482, 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. | R0482_Audio |