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Audio Recording Recent immigration patterns

[Recent immigration patterns.]

About this Item

Title

  • Recent immigration patterns

Names

  • Soria, Ralph (Narrator)
  • Carroll, Thomas D. (Interviewer)

Created / Published

  • 1994-09-13

Headings

  • -  Interviews
  • -  Emigration and Immigration
  • -  Puerto Ricans
  • -  Oral history
  • -  Sound recordings
  • -  21st Avenue (Paterson, N. J.)
  • -  Soria Real Estate Agency (Paterson, N.J.)
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  United States -- New Jersey -- Paterson

Genre

  • Ethnography
  • Interviews

Notes

  • -  Interview with Ralph Soria, owner of Soria Real Estate Agency on Oliver Street.
  • -  Summary of audio segment: In the 1980s the Dominicans started buying Puerto Ricans out of the small businesses. Before that Dominicans worked in factories, etc. The next wave of immigration was the Colombians, and now it's the Peruvians. Does each group apply for status adjustments? RS says yes. Are the Peruvians, the most recent group? RS says yes. Most of the Peruvians, and the few Mexicans, the few that are here, stay temporarily. It's very, very hard for Mexicans to establish residency in the US. Most of them are farm workers, they come here, establish work a few months, and then leave.

Medium

  • Digital Audio Tape

Call Number/Physical Location

  • AFC 1995/028: WIP-TDC-A023

Source Collection

  • Working in Paterson Project Collection (AFC 1995/028)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line

Working in Paterson Project collection, 1993-2002 (AFC 1995/028), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Cite This Item

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Chicago citation style:

Soria, Ralph, and Thomas D Carroll. Recent Immigration Patterns. -09-13, 1994. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/afcwip003994/.

APA citation style:

Soria, R. & Carroll, T. D. (1994) Recent Immigration Patterns. -09-13. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afcwip003994/.

MLA citation style:

Soria, Ralph, and Thomas D Carroll. Recent Immigration Patterns. -09-13, 1994. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afcwip003994/>.