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Oral history interview with Yuriana Aguilar, 2017
Overview of the Collection
- Interviewee
- Aguilar, Yuriana
- Title
- Oral history interview with Yuriana Aguilar
- Dates
- 201720172017
- Quantity
- 42.6 megabytes, (1 online resource (1 audio file (34 min., 10 sec.))) : MPEG-4
- Collection Number
- SR 12250
- Summary
- Oral history interview with Yuriana Aguilar conducted by Sankar Raman in 2017 for The Immigrant Story. Aguilar is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico who came to the United States with her family when she was 5. She is a recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and earned a Ph.D. at the University of California Merced.
- Repository
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Oregon Historical Society Research Library
1200 SW Park Avenue
Portland, OR
97205
Telephone: 503-306-5240
Fax: 503-219-2040
libreference@ohs.org - Access Restrictions
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Collection is open for research.
- Languages
- English
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Yuriana Aguilar was born in Mexico. Her family came to the United States when she was 5, and they settled in Fresno, California. She attended the University of California Merced, where she earned a bachelor of science degree in biology. After the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was established by the administration of President Barack Obama in 2012, she received protections under the program and continued her studies at UC Merced, earning a Ph.D. in 2016. She then worked as an instructor and post-doctoral fellow at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
This oral history interview with Yuriana Aguilar was conducted by Sankar Raman by phone call in 2017. The interview was recorded for The Immigrant Story, an organization that documents and archives the stories of immigrants and refugees in the United States. In this interview, Aguilar discusses her experience as an undocumented immigrant child from Mexico. She talks about pursuing higher education and a career in biology as a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient. She talks about being the first in her family to get a college education, her motivation to succeed, and her research in cardiology. She describes her experience of being the guest of U.S. Senator Kamala Harris at a speech President Donald Trump delivered to Congress in 2017. She describes how, in the speech, he demonized and misrepresented undocumented immigrants. She closes the interview by talking about living under the specter of deportation and her hopes for a path to citizenship.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Preferred Citation
Oral history interview with Yuriana Aguilar, by Sankar Raman, SR 12250, Oregon Historical Society Research Library.
Restrictions on Use
Joint copyright for this interview is held by the Oregon Historical Society and The Immigrant Story. Use is allowed according to the following statement: In Copyright – Educational Use Permitted, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Acquisition Information
Gift of The Immigrant Story, 2020 (Lib. Acc RL2020-017).
Bibliography
An article about Yuriana Aguilar, "A Cardiac Scientist with Heart" by Sankar Raman, was based on this interview and published on The Immigrant Story website at https://theimmigrantstory.org/scientist/.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
| Description | Dates |
|---|---|
| Oral history interview with Yuriana Aguilar | 2017 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Cardiology
- College students--California
- Emigration and immigration law--United States
- Immigrant children--Legal status, laws, etc.--United States
- Immigrants--California
- Mexican Americans
- Undocumented immigrant children--United States
Personal Names
- Aguilar, Yuriana
Form or Genre Terms
- interviews
Other Creators
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Personal Names
- Raman, Sankar (interviewer)
