http://youtu.be/ZBcmrBip3q8

Jenny Liu is an immigrant from China. This interview gives a sense of what her experience was like when she moved from rural China to urban New York. She describes her reasons for moving, what life was like initially in New York, and what she does now.

-Matthew Liu

Julia was born in Brooklyn less than a month after her parents arrived in the United States. In our interview she shared stories of her family’s live in Odessa before the emigration, described her family’s integration to life in the US, and gave her impressions about it all having grown up “almost an immigrant”.

http://youtu.be/qfHBsAKccdM

This is the video component to my oral history project. I chose to interview my mother, Mayreni Perez, a Dominican immigrant living in Queens. The purpose of this interview was to have my mother reveal to us what her immigrant experience was like, how she viewed New York City then and how she views New York City now. Despite some hardship, she views New York City as her home.

The original recorded video was about 21 minutes long, but it was condensed to 14.5 minutes so it wouldn’t be too long. Note that the camera tends to shake a lot because I am terrible at keeping my hands steady with a camera.