Family Migration Artifact

Migrant's belongings found in the AZ desert by Green Valley Samaritans

"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our Family Migration History: Who Are We?

We tell our own families' migration stories through presenting a family migration artifact and explaining its meaning for us and our families. Here you may learn:

where did they come from?
when did they come to the United States?
why did they leave their homelands?

Some of us came to the US quite recently

(since 1965):

Cristal Arellano, Mexico (Nayarit), late 1980s

Juan Garcia Ramirez, Mexico (Chihuahua), e 2000s

Yerena Hernandez, Mexico (Nayarit), late 1980s

Argenis Hurtado Moreno, Mexico (Michoacan), 1995

Ghanim Obaidan, Qatar, 2013

Why 1965?

Find out about the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965

Some of us have been here quite a while (before 1965):

Madison Adamoli, Italy (Sicily), 1904-6

Riley Candia, Denmark, 1856

Crystal C, Mexico (Sonora), late 1940s

Ian Fugate, France, 1910

Matthew Harper, England/Ireland

Jonathan Holdsworth, Italy, 1919

Donnella Lincoln, England, Canada

Emily L, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Mexico

Jacqueline Stanley, Czechoslovakia, 1935

Daphne Villanueva, Mexico (Durango), e 20C and 1980s?

Kurtice Maguire, unknown

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