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Nereida Almeida is an undergraduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Almeida's family comes from different parts of Mexico, her mother from Tampico, Tamaulipas and her father from Guadalajara, Jalisco. They lived in several different U.S. cities but settled in Charlotte, N.C. where Almeida has lived her entire life. She…

Carol Gates is a speech therapist with Wake County Schools in North Carolina. She has worked in this profession since 1990, and has worked with Wake County for fifteen years. After spending four years at the middle and high school level, she now works with elementary school children. Gates was born in Durham, N.C., and has resided in the state…

Emiliano (pseudonym) is an undocumented youth who has recently graduated high school. Emiliano was born in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico, but now has been living in North Carolina with his family for seventeen years. He grew up speaking both English and Spanish but had to take English as a Second Language (ESL) classes for the majority of his…

Natalie Borrego was born and raised in Miami, Fla. where a prominent Cuban immigrant community is well established as part of a larger Latin American community there. Borrego was raised identifying as Cuban-American and/or Hispanic. She explains the usage of the term Hispanic, which is commonly used by fellow Cubans in her hometown. The terms…

Ana Amaya is an undergraduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Amaya and her family come from Colombia; her mother resides in Cary, N.C. while her father lives in California. As a child, Amaya moved around quite a bit, temporarily living in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Myrtle Beach, S.C.; Hillsborough, N.C.; and Durham, N.C. …

Katelyn Yesenia Robalino is a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her major is Studio Art. She plans to become an art therapist or an art teacher. Robalino is an important interviewee because her mother and father both have different educational levels. Her mother has a communications degree, and this means that…

Joanne Caye is a clinical associate professor in the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). After spending most of her professional life in social work, she began as a professor at UNC. In addition to teaching, she is currently working on her dissertation for her PhD in education, which is focused on…

Mirna Ramirez is a Junior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) studying political science. Her parents and older sister were born in Mexico and immigrated to the United States before she was born. Ramirez was born in Montana, but grew up in Columbia, N.C. after her family moved there when she was two years old. She took English…

Adriana Iturbide is an undergraduate student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Iturbide’s family comes from Toluca, Mexico, but moved to Charlotte, N.C. in 1996 because of her father's job transfer at the BB&T Corporation (Branch Banking & Trust). Throughout her life, she has attended school and, following her parents’ example,…

German Lozano has recently immigrated to the United States from Colombia. Lozano explains that as a Colombian in Colombia, there is never a need to state your nationality or explain your background or where you are from. However, once you arrive in the United States as an immigrant, people often impose identity labels on you. The terms Latino and…