R-0857 -- Martínez, Vianey Lemus.
Vianey Lemus Martinez is a fourth year undergraduate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill studying Spanish. She grew up in Tulancingo, Hidalgo in Mexico until age nine when she and her family moved to Durham, North Carolina where they have lived ever since. Lemus Martinez was hesitant to apply for a legal status under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that began in 2012. However, after her father, a construction worker, was in a car accident that left him car-less, Lemus Martinez applied for the status and obtained a driver’s license, allowing her family to get a car. With DACA, Lemus Martinez has enjoyed benefits of driving and expanded employment opportunities. She hopes to travel abroad to Mexico as part of an educational experience. Nevertheless, she feels that DACA is only a short-term Band-Aid solution to larger immigration issues in the U.S. The uncertain future often leaves Lemus Martinez feeling anxious, but she finds solace in the power of the people to push through the challenges that may come.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
<a href="http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/sohp/id/27100">University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.</a>
26 February 2016
No restrictions. Open to research.
R0857_Audio.mp3
R-0807 -- Correa, Daniel.
Daniel Correa is a junior transfer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill studying Journalism. He immigrated to the United States with his parents and younger sister from Bogotá, Colombia in 2001, seeking political asylum. Correa moved to Miami at the age of eight and then to Cornelius, North Carolina when he was thirteen to finish school. He was in a special English-Spanish learning program in Miami before coming to North Carolina. Most of Daniel’s family still lives in Colombia and he discusses how close-knit they are. He also talks about how hard of a transition it was for them to emigrate. He discusses different experiences he has gone through here in the US, what forced them to seek political asylum and what it means to adapt to “American” culture.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
<a href="http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/sohp/id/26875">University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.</a>
26 February 2015
No restrictions. Open to research.
R0807_Audio.mp3
R-0802 -- Cardona, Yanexy.
Yanexy Cardona mentions her family’s immigration experience as Hondurans crossing the Mexican-American border. In addition, she defines her Honduran identity and how it is different from other Latin American countries. Yanexy discusses what influenced her family to move to North Carolina and how they have integrated with the community. She discusses some of the challenges her family had to face as immigrants. She describes ways she has interacted and participated to bring immigration awareness on campus as a student of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
<a href="http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/sohp/id/26866">University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.</a>
01 March 2015
No restrictions. Open to research.
R0802_Audio.mp3
R-0811 -- Islas, Alma.
Alma Islas discusses her experience coming to North Carolina from Mexico City at the age of six. She discusses her family’s work in Mexico and the motives behind migrating to the United States. She speaks about the identity struggle she felt since arriving and her conflicts about being Mexican on paper, but feeling more American in practice. She talks about her long-term goals and then the goals of her father and three siblings. She works two part-time jobs to help finance her education, and also works with SUIE (Students United for Immigrant Equality), an on-campus organization. Alma highlights the importance education has had in her life. She discusses the private education system in Mexico and mentioned that language was often a barrier for her growing up. She discusses DACA, and how that affects her both in a legal sense and emotionally. She discusses her life as an undocumented student and talks about the few options she has towards filing for citizenship.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
<a href="http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/sohp/id/26851">University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.</a>
18 March 2015
No restrictions. Open to research.
R0811_Audio.mp3
R-0703 -- Arriaga, Felicia.
Janell Smith interviews graduate student Felicia Arriaga in an effort to understand issues of diversity within higher education institutions, specifically as it relates to Latino faculty members. With the hope of becoming a professor, Arriaga is a graduate student in the sociology department at Duke University, where she began her undergraduate career as a student in 2008 and received her bachelor’s degree in sociology and psychology in 2012. She is expected to graduate with her doctorate in 2018. She explains how her minority status has helped and hindered her collegiate career. Arriaga is a resident of Hendersonville, North Carolina, and is also heavily involved in and committed to her community. As the daughter of farmworkers, Arriaga works to better the lives of Latino students and laborers. She works for the Student Action with Farmworkers non-profit organization that seeks fair and just working conditions for farmworkers. Together Ms. Arriaga’s passion for education and her experiences as a Latina student provide a valuable perspective on diversity in higher education, especially as it relates to inclusion of Latinos.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
<a href="http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/sohp/id/20982">University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.</a>
09 Apr 2014
No restrictions. Open to research.
R0703_Audio.mp3
R-0706 -- Maldonado de Patiño, María de los Ángeles.
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.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
<a href="http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/sohp/id/20973">University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.</a>
05 April 2014
No restrictions. Open to research.
R0706_Audio.mp3
R-0715 -- Villa-Torres, Laura.
Laura Villa Torres was born and raised in Mexico. She studied Sociology as an undergrad and she has always had an interest in Sociology of Health. She worked at Ipas in Mexico on the topic of youth sexual and reproductive rights advocacy, where she had the opportunity to collaborate with diverse public institutions, including the Mexican Ministry of Health. Villa Torres was also a member of the Youth Coalition for Sexual and Reproductive Rights, with whom she did advocacy work at the United Nations. After that, she moved to Chapel Hill, in North Carolina, to continue her work at Ipas, and now she is a graduate student in the Health Behavior department at UNC Chapel Hill. Villa Torres, with her experience in Mexico, United States and in the United Nations, offers an overview of the complexity of the healthcare for immigrants in North Carolina. Her current research focuses on the mental health of day laborer men that have left their homes in Latin America and are now living abroad, without their families and with little resources. Villa Torres shares her thoughts on the themes of access to healthcare, and the associated problems' origins and solutions.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
<a href="http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/sohp/id/20970">University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.</a>
29 Mar 2014
No restrictions. Open to research.
R0715_Audio.mp3
R-0696 -- Seymour, Robert E.
Reverend Robert Seymour sat on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Hospital Board of Directors from 1980-1984 and after that was an active lobbyist for improving healthcare accessibility in the Chapel Hill, North Carolina Community. The Reverend is noted for his knowledge of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Hospital system and is often a critic of how the Hospital’s internal structure prevents them from following through on their mandate of being an accessible, public hospital. This interview is part of Danny Hogenkamp's ongoing investigation of how the Affordable Care Act affects the undocumented Latino population and how the undocumented Latino population consequently affects local hospitals. This interview, in particular, was aimed at discussing the ramifications of large uninsured populations—specifically, how a hospital like the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's is dealing with the current medical finance climate after North Carolina’s rejection of Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act’s rejection of healthcare for the undocumented.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
<a href="http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/sohp/id/20195">University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.</a>
09 April 2014
No restrictions. Open to research.
R0696_Audio.mp3
R-0698 -- Smith, Jane, pseud.
Jane Smith (pseudonym), speaks about her involvement with issues related to migration, and the broader landscape of student activism work related to immigration in North Carolina. She shares stories from her work with Students United for Immigrant Equality at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her observations on the challenges of working with the undocumented population in North Carolina. In particular, she finds the lack of central leadership challenging, and discusses how different stakeholders in the state might be able to work more effectively together. From her perspective, the landscape of activism in North Carolina has shifted over the past few years from solely awareness and advocacy work, to include more of a policy focus, in light of federal policies such as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Advocacy has also changed as more and more undocumented students are becoming open about their status and choosing to advocate for themselves; this, however, sometimes creates tension when considering the role of allies in the movement.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
<a href="http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/sohp/id/20192">University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.</a>
01 April 2014
No restrictions. Open to research.
R0698_Audio.mp3
R-0699 -- Vicente, Emilio.
Emilio Vicente discusses his and his family’s immigration experience as K’iche-speaking Mayans in Guatemala coming to Siler City, North Carolina in 1997. He discusses his early education as the only K’iche speaker in his public schools and feeling different from Spanish-speaking Latinos in his school. He talks about how his family emphasized learning English and Spanish over preserving K’iche, and how he regrets losing his “first culture.” He talks about how his father was paralyzed in a workplace accident which influenced his parents’ decision to return to Guatemala. He discusses his activism to gain greater equality and access to education for undocumented students, like himself. He talks about working on the national United We Dream campaign in Washington, D.C. and bringing the methods he learned there to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill campus, where he started the One State One Rate campaign, to get in-state tuition for undocumented students, and Students United for Immigrant Equality.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
<a href="http://dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/sohp/id/20189">University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.</a>
25 June 2014
No restrictions. Open to research.
R0699_Audio.mp3