Archive of Immigrant Voices

Geographic Scope: Immigrant oral histories are from across the globe, but most interviews take place in the Mid-Atlantic region.

Number of Interviews: 24

Format: WAVE, MP3, MPEG-4

Start Date: 6/1/2012

Location: College Park, MD

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In 2012, the Center for the History of the New America (now the Center for Global Migration Studies) established the Archive of Immigrant Voices to collect stories of the experience of migration. The purpose of the archive is to create, accumulate, and preserve a repository of memories that will not only reveal living history and features of the recent past, but will also document the fine lines of social change that might be otherwise ignored or lost to history. These stories will provide the basis for understanding how newcomers adapt to challenges and successes. The Archive unites the Center’s mission to advance scholarship and teaching while enhancing the Center’s connection to migrant communities by capturing, recording, and preserving the experience of migration, dislocation, and community formation as immigrants, asylum-seekers, refugees, and other newcomers themselves understood it. In addition to housing these oral interviews, the Archive also contains further information on the history of immigration, educator resources, and tools for conducting oral histories.

POINT OF CONTACT

Lauren Michalak, Graduate Assistant (globalmigration@umd.edu)
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