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Interview no. | R-0706 |
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 | 05 April 2014 |
Interviewee | Maldonado de Patiño, María de los Ángeles. |
Interviewee occupation | Food service employees |
Interviewee DOB | 1955 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Hispanic Americans and Latinos |
Interviewer | Went, Cora. |
Abstract | María de los Angeles Maldonado de Patiño provides a personal account of how she deals with having half of her family in the United States and half of her family in Mexico. She touched on issues such as mobility for people who are documented versus undocumented and the ways immigrants maintain contact with family members in Mexico. She also discusses religion as one way of coping with family separation, the effect that money sent back to family in Mexico has on their daily lives, the strange duality of some family members getting visas while others do not, and the health problems and negative psychological aspects of being an immigrant in the United States. Finally she explores differences in the cultures, particularly the lack of a sense of community in the United States. |
Subject Topical Other |
Citizenship and immigration Culture Financial issues Separation and reunification Receiving communities |
Citation | Interview with María de los Angeles Maldonado de Patiño by Cora Went, 05 April 2014, R-0706, 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. | R0706_Audio |