Home Human Rights Archive by category "Immigrants / Refugees"

Category: Immigrants / Refugees

Inductees tell their stories of immigration and explain what it is like to learn a new language and a new culture in the United States of America. The full list of clips relating to Immigrants and Refugees/Immigration is accessible in the Appendix.

Delahanty talks about some of the problems that exist still today that need to be worked on and dealt with.

 

Delahanty talks about his time working with immigrants, especially with refugees, that are coming into the United States and his

 

Suzy Post talks about how being Jewish affected her wish to be an activist. She addresses worldwide persecution of Jews

 

Suzy Post’s parents were first generation American Jews whose job it was to “assimilate, assimilate, assimilate” which she processes as

 

Suzy Post comes in from the next room with a blue box that she was given when she was married

 

Edgardo Mansilla compares the United States to a pot of stew, not a “melting pot”. Edgardo Mansilla was born in

 

Edgardo Mansilla discusses immigrants and refugees and how they (especially their children) react to living in a new country. Edgardo

 

Edgardo Mansilla talks about his family values and learning life. Edgardo Mansilla was born in Argentina in 1953. He is