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Oral history interview with Jaime Miranda [Sound Recording 01]
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- 2018-08-01 (Creation)
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MPEG-4; 00:59:46
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Jaime Miranda was born in 1974 in rural Chihuahua, Mexico. His family relocated to Mexico City a few years later, and he spent the majority of his youth there. His family immigrated to the United States around 1984, and he joined them a year later. He studied education at the University of Oregon from 1994 to 2000, with the intention of becoming a teacher. Instead, he founded a business, the M & M Marketplace in Hillsboro, Oregon, in 2000. He and Bianca Hernandez married in 2011.
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Session 1. This oral history interview with Jaime Miranda was conducted by Keven Salazar on August 1, 2018. The interview was recorded for The Immigrant Story, an organization that documents and archives the stories of immigrants and refugees in the United States. The interview was conducted in both English and Spanish. In the interview, Miranda discusses his business, M & M Marketplace, in Hillsboro, Oregon. He talks about his early life in Mexico City, Mexico, including making a living by helping his mother work as a street vendor. Miranda and Salazar then converse in Spanish for several minutes about Salazar's studies, as well as the diverse populations in Gresham and Beaverton, Oregon. Miranda then returns to the topic of his early life in Mexico City and speaks at length about growing up in poverty. He talks about living with his extended family in Juárez while his parents and siblings immigrated to the United States. Miranda and Salazar again converse informally in Spanish. Miranda then talks about joining his family in the U.S. at the end of 1985, and he discusses his life in California, including his education and working in the fields with his family. He closes the interview by discussing the importance of education.
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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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- Salazar, Keven (Contributor)