Oral history interview with Ayan Salat [Sound Recording 01]

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Oral history interview with Ayan Salat [Sound Recording 01]

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  • 2019-03-22 (Creation)

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WAV; 01:29:02

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Ayan Salat was born in Jamame, Somalia, in the 1990s. She lived in the Hagadera refugee camp in Kenya from 2005 to 2009, and then her family moved to the Kakuma refugee camp. In 2015, her family immigrated to the United States. The family first moved to Arizona, and shortly afterward settled in Portland, Oregon. She studied political science at Portland State University.

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Session 1. This oral history interview with Ayan Salat was conducted by Sankar Raman and Jessica Pollard on March 22, 2019. 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, Salat discusses her family background and early life in Somalia. She also shares the reasons that her father fled to Kenya in the 1990s. She shares her experiences living in refugee camps in Kenya from 2005 to 2015, including her education, her home and family life, and living conditions in the camps. She talks about the markets that her parents ran in the camps, about her social life, and about the process of immigrating to the United States. She talks about adjusting to life in the U.S., describes racism she experienced, and discusses her education in Portland, Oregon. She talks about writing poetry and reads one of her poems. She closes the interview by talking about her plans for the future and by sharing advice for young immigrants.

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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/

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  • eng

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