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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
2007 Forces, R. Scott Yarbrough
Interview With A First Generation Female Columbian Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Interview With A First Generation Female Columbian Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Telling to Live: The Immigrant Experience in a Global Suburb
Female immigrant from Columbia discusses her immigration experience coming to America to work as a nurse. She details her difficulties learning the English language and obtaining her nursing license to work in America.
Interview With A Second Generation Male Nicaraguan Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Interview With A Second Generation Male Nicaraguan Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Telling to Live: The Immigrant Experience in a Global Suburb
Male second generation immigrant from Nicaragua discusses his families and his immigration experience. He tells about the difficulties his parents faced including his mother's struggle to learn English. Similarly he discusses the his own personal struggle being a gay and how it has lead him to become involved in issues relating to gay youth in America.
Interview With A First Generation Female Argentinean Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Interview With A First Generation Female Argentinean Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Telling to Live: The Immigrant Experience in a Global Suburb
Female immigrant from Argentina discusses her immigrant experience including her life in Argentina, meeting her husband, working for Texas Instruments, and difficulties obtaining her work Visa.
Interview With A First Generation Female Puerto Rican Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Interview With A First Generation Female Puerto Rican Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Telling to Live: The Immigrant Experience in a Global Suburb
Female immigrant from Puerto Rico discusses her immigration experience coming to America to learn English. She relates her difficulties dealing with the language barrier, her college experience, and her and her children's identities.
Interview With A Third Generation Male Italian Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Interview With A Third Generation Male Italian Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Telling to Live: The Immigrant Experience in a Global Suburb
Male immigrant from Italy discusses his experience growing up in an Italian family. He relates the attitudes and traditions of his Italian family. Furthermore, he discusses the changes in attitudes towards these attitudes and traditions over four different generations of his family. He also discusses his experiences facing racism in his life.
Interview With A Third Generation Female Polish Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Interview With A Third Generation Female Polish Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Telling to Live: The Immigrant Experience in a Global Suburb
Female Polish and Irish immigrant discusses her personal history and involvement in the polish community as well as her mother and grandmothers. She also discusses introducing Polish culture to her children through food and cultural events. She relates her grandparents immigrating to the United States in order to escape Nazi occupation.
Interview With A Second Generation Male Chinese Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Interview With A Second Generation Male Chinese Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Telling to Live: The Immigrant Experience in a Global Suburb
Male immigrant from China discusses his experience living and coping with having an immigrant mother. He tells stories explaining his struggle to find his place in both America and Chinese culture. Also relates difficulties he and his sister have with their Chinese mother's cultural practices and beliefs. Describes his and his families coming to terms with his sexuality.
Interview With A First Generation Male Indian Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Interview With A First Generation Male Indian Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Telling to Live: The Immigrant Experience in a Global Suburb
Male immigrant from India discusses his immigration to America for an advanced degree in engineering. He talks about his community involvement both in America and India. Also he relates how he feels the two countries are different in regard to culture, politics, and education.
Interview With A First Generation Female Pilipino Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Interview With A First Generation Female Pilipino Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Telling to Live: The Immigrant Experience in a Global Suburb
Female immigrant from the Philippines discusses the difficulties involved with immigrating to America. She details her personal struggle with not being able to work in America. Also she discusses how her family does eventually plan to return to live in the Philippines.
Interview With A First Generation Female Pakistani Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Interview With A First Generation Female Pakistani Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Telling to Live: The Immigrant Experience in a Global Suburb
Female immigrant from Pakistan discusses her experiences immigrating to America and her beliefs about various cultures. She relates stories about discrimination against immigrants in America and how she feels 9/11 has intensified the discrimination. She also discusses her feelings towards Pakistani culture and American culture.
Interview With A First Generation Female Zimbabwean Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Interview With A First Generation Female Zimbabwean Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Telling to Live: The Immigrant Experience in a Global Suburb
Female immigrant from Zimbabwe discusses her immigration experience moving from England to the United State. She relates her experiences with cultural differences, her identity, difficulties working in America, and assimilating into America.
Interview With A Second Generation Female Nicaraguan Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Interview With A Second Generation Female Nicaraguan Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Telling to Live: The Immigrant Experience in a Global Suburb
Female second generation immigrant from Nicaragua discusses her families immigration. She describes her parent's immigration experience including her mothers not learning the English language and her Father's health issues. Further she discusses her own experiences as a second generation immigrant and the importance of her family.
Interview With A First Generation Female Egyptian Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Interview With A First Generation Female Egyptian Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Telling to Live: The Immigrant Experience in a Global Suburb
Female immigrant from Egypt discusses her experience immigrating to America. She tells about her early life in Egypt and moving to America. She also relates her experiences raising Islamic children in America.
Interview With An American Citizen Returning To America, Lisa Roy-Davis
Interview With An American Citizen Returning To America, Lisa Roy-Davis
Telling to Live: The Immigrant Experience in a Global Suburb
American female who immigrated to Beirut and France discusses her experience as an American abroad and returning home.
Interview With A First Generation Male Indian Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Interview With A First Generation Male Indian Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Telling to Live: The Immigrant Experience in a Global Suburb
Male immigrant from India discusses his families immigration from India to Dubai to America. He relates how he had a carefree childhood living in a small village in Dubai. He specifically discusses his experiences in America going to college and having a successful sales career in the technology sector.
Interview With A First Generation Male Pakistani Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Interview With A First Generation Male Pakistani Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Telling to Live: The Immigrant Experience in a Global Suburb
Male immigrant from Pakistan discusses his immigration to the United States beginning in Cleveland Ohio and ending in Texas. He details the differences in the cultures with regard to education and religion. Also he discusses his arranged marriage with his wife and their families. Lastly he discusses the issues of assimilation and identity.
Interview With A First Generation Male Indian Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Interview With A First Generation Male Indian Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Telling to Live: The Immigrant Experience in a Global Suburb
Male immigrant from India who immigrated to America for college. He begins his interview describing the social and cultural differences he had to deal with in America. Then he relates his first experiences in Dallas with discrimination and being mistaken for a Mexican. He also discusses his career in the technology field in America. Lastly he discusses bring his family to America and the issues he and they faced in assimilating into American culture.
Interview With A First Generation Female Mexican Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Interview With A First Generation Female Mexican Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Telling to Live: The Immigrant Experience in a Global Suburb
Female immigrant from Mexico discusses the importance of passing on cutlural and familial traditions to our children. Also discusses the differences between jobs, school, and corruption in Mexico and America. Finally expresses what she feels all Americans should understand and know about immigrants coming to this country.
Interview With A First Generation Male Bulgarian Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Interview With A First Generation Male Bulgarian Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Telling to Live: The Immigrant Experience in a Global Suburb
Male immigrant from Bulgaria who immigrated to America for college. He discusses his childhood growing up religious in a communist country. Furthermore he discusses the differences between living in a rural and urban area in Bulgaria. Finally he discusses his being a minster in America and his having to assimilate to America.
Interview With A First Generation Male Chinese Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Interview With A First Generation Male Chinese Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Telling to Live: The Immigrant Experience in a Global Suburb
Male immigrant from Hong Kong who immigrated to America for college. Discusses the conditions and differences between growing up in Hong Kong and growing up in America. He also relates his immigrations story, and how America was not what he was expecting from watching American media. Further he discusses his wedding in America and his wife's community involvement.
Interview With A First Generation Female Mexican Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Interview With A First Generation Female Mexican Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Telling to Live: The Immigrant Experience in a Global Suburb
Female immigrant from Mexico who to America for her father's job as Dean of Men at a seminary. She discusses her families reaction to moving to America. She also discusses her families arrival in America. Then she discusses her life as a single woman with a career in Nursing. Lastly she discusses caring for her parents and extended family.
Interview With A First Generation Female Nigerian Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Interview With A First Generation Female Nigerian Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Telling to Live: The Immigrant Experience in a Global Suburb
Female immigrant from Nigeria who moved to America for school. She relates her story growing up in Nigeria being raised by her aunt and living in a religious boarding school. She expresses her views on discrimination and not letting it get to her. She discusses her career in America and her changing her career to nursing. Also she offers advice to other immigrants on their career choice.
Interview With A First Generation Male Zimbabwean Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Interview With A First Generation Male Zimbabwean Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Telling to Live: The Immigrant Experience in a Global Suburb
Male immigrant from Zimbabwe discusses his familial relationships and the significance of being first born. Also he discusses his experiences in a British education system and how it differs from the American education system. Then he discusses his career working in public health dealing with the HIV epidemic in Zimbabwe. He also discusses having to find a new career in the United States and his overall disappointment with the reality of the American Dream.
Interview With A First Generation Female Korean Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Interview With A First Generation Female Korean Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Telling to Live: The Immigrant Experience in a Global Suburb
Female immigrant from Korea who immigrated to America for her husband's career. She discussed the cold welcome her family and her received in America, and their difficulties assimilating to living in America.
Interview With A First Generation Male South African Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Interview With A First Generation Male South African Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Telling to Live: The Immigrant Experience in a Global Suburb
Male immigrant from South Africa discusses hardships imposed on his early life by apartheid. He relates how he could not attend white universities in South Africa, so he attend night school with is father. Then he discusses his living in Zimbabwe during their Civil War. Likewise he discusses the effect of 9/11 on his immigration experience. Also he discusses the South African Seventh Day Adventist church and how American churches are similar.
Interview With A First Generation Female Bulgarian Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Interview With A First Generation Female Bulgarian Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Telling to Live: The Immigrant Experience in a Global Suburb
Female immigrant from Bulgaria who lived part of her early years in Morocco. She discusses her different attitudes toward living in Morocco and Bulgaria. She describes her experience in the Bulgarian educational system including college. She also relates how she came to immigrate to America and her unrealistic expectations of America. Furthermore, she describes how she has made America her own and is living a successful live in America.
Interview With A Second Generation Female Mexican Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Interview With A Second Generation Female Mexican Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Telling to Live: The Immigrant Experience in a Global Suburb
Female immigrant from Mexico who immigrated to America in her mother's womb. Discusses her families experiences as illegal immigrants first in Chicago and later in the Fort Worth area. She also discusses how the Amnesty law changed her and her families lives. Similarly she discusses her struggles with both cultural or family issues and financial issues of obtaining her Master's of Fine Arts in photography. She also relates her experiences photographing her family and the Mexican culture in America for her class photography projects. Furthermore she discusses the culture clashes she experienced marrying someone outside her parent's religion. She also …
Interview With A First Generation Male South African Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Interview With A First Generation Male South African Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Telling to Live: The Immigrant Experience in a Global Suburb
Male immigrant from South Africa who immigrated to America for college. He relates his experience of growing up in South Africa during apartheid. Later he also discusses his feeling on the Vietnam War and other personal changes he experience in the seventies. He ends the interview discussing his opinions on modern American issues such as Political Correctness and his feeling on his national identity.
Interview With A First Generation Female South African Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Interview With A First Generation Female South African Immigrant, Lisa Roy-Davis
Telling to Live: The Immigrant Experience in a Global Suburb
Female immigrant from South Africa moved to America for Husband's job. She discusses her families experiences adapting to America. She discusses experiences she had during Apartheid and the current situation in South Africa. She also discusses the differences between living in South Africa and America. Also she discusses the effects of 9/11 on her family and their immigration experience.