Celine talks to her mom about her experiences immigrating from Mexico as a young girl and what the American Dream means to her. Her parents worked in agriculture and first migrated to a different state in Mexico for better opportunities, before migrating to California.
“You can’t be a free woman in a society that doesn’t condemn that.”
Representative stock photo used to preserve anonymity.
A woman from Jordan shares how she migrated to attend college in the US, where she ended up staying long-term. She discusses the danger that women face in Jordan, and how living in the US helped her navigate her mixed Jordanian and Venezuelan identity.
“This balance is so important to me. It makes our lives exciting…I feel just super happy.”
Hiroko & family in Bluff, Utah. Photo courtesy of interviewee.
Hiroko Yamamoto is an assistant professor in the architecture department at the University of Utah. Hiroko moved from Nagoya, Japan to Bluff, Utah when her friend (and later, husband) Atsushi told her about the DesignBuildUtah program, which constructs homes in Bluff in collaboration with the Navajo Nation. They now live there with their two kids.
