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OH 1693

About the Interviewee

IntervieweeCHANDRASEKAR, Kirthica (b. 1973)

About this oral history

Interview ID #OH 1693
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DescriptionFor the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. India-born immigrant to suburban Carrollton, Texas. Childhood and education in Bangalore, Madurai, and other locations throughout India; 1994 arranged marriage to a family friend living in New Jersey; first impressions of the U.S.; enrollment in Rutgers University M.A. program in statistics; work in insurance industry; immigration bureaucracy; struggle to keep close ties with family in India; 2005 relocation to Dallas suburb; comparison and contrast of life in India, New Jersey, and Texas.
Interviewer(s)Katherine Teel
Physical Description61 pp.
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