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Alma López and Mario Puga were born in Mexico. In this interview, they focus on their experiences as workers. Puga tells he started working at a young age with his father and asserts children mature quickly in Mexico. As a young man, he joined his…

Diana Salazar Guzmán was born in 1964 in Homestead, Florida. In this interview, she reflects on her Chicana identity and her family roots. Salazar Guzmán remembers her role in leading the 2006 immigrant-rights march in Charleston and the challenges…

Eric Esquivel was born in 1975 in Danville, Pennsylvania. His father was from Colombia, and his mother was from New Jersey. In the mid-eighties, his family moved to Hilton Head, South Carolina. He remembers how as a child he noticed the exuberant…

Karla Martinez was born in 1981 in Zacatecoluca, El Salvador. Escaping civil war, her family went to Mexico, stayed there undocumented for several years, and then crossed the border into the US. Martinez grew up in Los Angeles, CA. She remembers her…

Nina Cano Richards was born in 1988 in La Paz, Bolivia. When she was nine years old, her family came to the USA, looking for the American Dream. In the interview, Cano Richards remembers her childhood in Bolivia and her experiences as a child of…

Fernando Soto was born in 1984 in San Pedro de las Colonias, Coahuila, Mexico. When he was seven years old, his family immigrated to the USA. Soto remembers growing up on Johns Island, SC, and reflects on how this small rural community has changed…

Martha Gómez (1966) was born and lived in Bogotá, Colombia until she was sixteen when, due to a severe economic crisis, her family moved to the United States and settled in Miami, Florida. Gomez states that her parents, devout Catholics, raised their…

Maria was born in Caracheo, Guanajuato, Mexico. She is the youngest of eleven siblings in a family dedicated to rural work. She got married when she was twenty years old. Soon after, her husband, following in the footsteps of family and friends, left…

Consuelo Campos was born in Aquila, Michoacán, Mexico. Because her family was very poor and she was the oldest of thirteen siblings, she started working at an early age in the production of bricks and selling food that her mother prepared. She…

Felipa was born in a small town in the state of Oaxaca called Capulín and grew up there with her parents and six siblings. She never went to school and contributed to the family economy by participating in the house and field chores from a very young…