50 Years After, Voices from a Diaspora: Thuy Tran
Thuy Tran talks about her experiences as an optometrist, member of the Oregon Air National Guard, and Oregon State Representative in this video by Kevin Truong.
Flavors of Being
Minal Mistry on reconnecting with the spices of his ancestors.
Corazón de Fuego / Heart of Fire
La Comida de Nuestras Madres / The Foodways of our Mothers by Yanely Rivas
Refugio
La experiencia de una familia con migración, detención, y encontrando seguridad en Oregon. Por Ana Maria Rodriguez con Nella May Parks
Refuge
One family's experience with migration, border detention, and finding safety in Oregon. By Ana Maria Rodriguez with Nella Mae Parks
Entrevista: Carlos habla de migración, peligro, y su sueño americano
Rafael Romero habla con Carlos, un migrante de Guatemala residente de Hermiston, sobre sus razones por emigrar a los estados unidos, los retos que encontró en su trayecto, y que pidiera de los residentes y el gobierno de este país.
Interview: Carlos on Migration, Danger, and His American Dream
Rafael Romero talks with Carlos, an immigrant from Guatemala living in Hermiston, about why he came to the United States, the difficulties he experience in his journey, and what he'd ask of others here.
Stretching Toward the Sun
T. Nguyen writes about moving from Vietnam to Eastern Oregon
Girlish
Diana Abu-Jaber reflects on her experience as an ambivalent beauty queen.
The Not-So-Simple Past
Joe Vance shares memories from the ESL classroom, where giving language to stories involves more than just questions of grammar.
Here Lies
Paul Susi writes about Chee Gong, a Chinese migrant laborer who was wrongfully convicted and executed in 1889.
Finding a Voice as an Advocate for Others
Sosan Amiri and Rozzell Medina speak about power, justice, education, and community.
Who Gets to Fight Climate Change?
JL Jiang on navigating climate activism as a second-generation Asian American
Tutoring the Kingpin
May Maylisa Cat writes about how helping a friend apply for the citizenship exam revived memories of her own experiences of educational discrimination and marginalization.
Organizing from the Outside
Jyothi Natarajan talks with Oregonians finding connection while protesting oppression in Kashmir from afar.
People, Places, Things
Berenice Chavez photographs her mother.
Stories from the Diaspora: A Sense of Home
Listen to Qudsia Ashan's journey from Afghanistan to the Columbia River Gorge and her experience with the Eagle Creek Fire, part of Stories from the Diaspora a project now being hosted on our website.
Stories from the Diaspora: The World is Full of Lessons
Oregon educator and Kosova refugee Flamur Vehapi shares poetry, wisdom, and social justice as part of Stories from the Diaspora a project now being hosted on our website.
Stories from the Diaspora: “Art is My Freedom”
Artist Akram Sarraj tells the story of his journey from Mosul to Portland as part of Stories from the Diaspora a project now being hosted on our website.
Neither Here nor There
Kiki Nakamura-Koyama writes about her struggle to fit in across continents and how she is empowered to change that experience for her students.
Emilly Prado and Inara Verzemnieks on Journalism and Representation
A conversation with 2018 Emerging Journalists, Community Stories fellow Emilly Prado and Inara Verzemnieks, her mentor for the fellowship, on questions of representation and responsibility in writing about immigration.
More than Words
Emilly Prado explores the stories of three families in the small rural border town of Nyssa, Oregon, and how immigration policy changes have affected their lives.
Family Ties
Emilly Prado writes about how changes to immigration legislation shape the lives of undocumented families in an excerpt from "More than Words," her project for Oregon Humanities' Emerging Journalists, Community Stories project.
Black Nightshade and Bierocks
Heather Arndt Anderson writes about finding connections to her Volga German ancestors through recipes and semi-poisonous berries.
Peace and Dignity
Mohamed Asem writes about finding community in shared stories of unjust detention in an excerpt from his memoir, Stranger in the Pen.
Croppings: Enrique Chagoya, Reverse Anthropology
Through January 27, 2019, at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art
Looking Forward, Looking Past
An excerpt from Emilly Prado's upcoming story about undocumented and mixed-status families living in Oregon.
Becoming Asian
Scot Nakagawa explores the roots of race and the model minority myth
Field Work: People in Motion
The University of Oregon’s Wayne Morse Center explores borders, migration, and belonging.
People Aren’t Illegal
Photographer Ezra Marcos Ayala reflects on the making of “To Live More Free”
To Live More Free
Southern Oregonians describe the challenges and fears of working while being undocumented. With photos by Ezra Marcos Ayala and audio by Luis Rodriguez
The Opposite of What We Know
Writer Putsata Reang reflects on the project "Bitter Harvest"
Bitter Harvest
Writer Putsata Reang and filmmaker Ivy Lin explore the stories of Chinese laborers in the 1900s who helped establish the state's reputation as an international beer capital, despite exclusion laws that kept them from owning the hop farms where they worked.
Sanctuary in Name Only
Undocumented Oregonians are only as safe as the policies that protect them. An essay by Elliott Young
Making Peace with Chaos
Author Zahir Janmohamed and photographer Tojo Andrianarivo profile student refugees living and thriving in Portland despite uncertainty.
The Farmers of Tanner Creek
Writer Putsata Reang on the little-known history of Chinese farmers and vegetable peddlers in Portland
Uncovered
Writer Donnell Alexander and photographer Kim Nguyen on one undocumented family's long wait for adequate health care
Posts
Readers write about Root
In the Land of the New
Mexican immigrants find home in el nuevo South. An excerpt from Translation Nation by Héctor Tobar
Whose State Is This?
Journalist Brent Walth on how legal measures targeting Latino Oregonians reflect fears of change.
Community in Flux
The long-persecuted Roma people begin to speak out. By Lisa Loving
Posts
Readers write about Safe
A Return Passage
Reporter Putsata Reang and photographer Kim Nguyen share their stories of leaving their home countries as refugees, meeting as students at the University of Oregon, and returning to Southeast Asia as journalists. A film produced by Dawn Jones for Oregon Humanities.
The Problem with the Immigration Problem
Elliot Young writes about the origins of the belief that immigrants harm our society
Posts
Readers write about "Me"
Design for a Crowded Planet
Cynthia E. Smith, the curator of socially responsible design at the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewett design museum, talks about innovative solutions by and for city dwellers.
One America?
A conversation between Gregory Rodriguez and Tomas Jimenez about American identity, race, immigration, and ideology.
The Crossing
A two-week journey toward hope and home. By Vicente Martinez.
Far from Home
The history and future of Slavic refugees in Oregon. By Susan W. Hardwick