Interview with Marlene Laynez Loarca (2024-10-20)

Interview with Marlene Laynez Loarca (2024-10-20)

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    Interviewees

    Marlene Laynez Loarca

    Interviewer

    Gabriella Wise

    Study ID

    087

    Description

    Gabriella Wise interviews Marlene Laynez Loarca about her background and experiences. Marlene, a former student at VCU, shares that her parents are from Guatemala and immigrated to the U.S. in the late 90s and early 2000s. She discusses the differences in her and her brothers' upbringing, noting her parents' more lenient approach in the U.S. Marlene also talks about her brothers' families, including their own migration and reunification stories. She emphasizes the importance of education and community, influenced by her parents' immigrant experiences. Marlene also reflects on the impact of COVID-19 on her family and her views on immigration, criticizing the reduction of immigrants to statistics by politicians.

    Note

    Guatemalan Americans; Hispanic Americans; Latin Americans; Guatemala; Virginia; Emigration and immigration; Belonging (Social psychology); Group identity; Children of immigrants; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023; Vaccination; Religion; Education; Community centers; Harris, Kamala, 1964-; Trump, Donald, 1946-; Elections; Racism

    City/Location

    Richmond (Va.)

    Genre

    oral histories (literary genre)

    Local Genre

    oral history; sound recording; text

    Type

    Sound; Text

    Digital Format

    audio/mp3

    Language

    eng

    Rights

    This material is protected by copyright, and copyright is held by Marlene Laynez Loarca. You are permitted to use this material in any way that is permitted by copyright. In addition, this material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Acknowledgment of Latino Virginia Project and Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.

    Collection

    Latino Virginia Oral Histories

    Contributors

    Latino Virginia Project

    Source

    Interview with Marlene Laynez Loarca (2024-10-20), Latino Virginia Oral History Project, Virginia Commonwealth University.

    File Name

    lvoh087_LaynezLoarcaMarlene_interview.mp3

    Disciplines

    Latin American History | Latin American Languages and Societies | Oral History | Public History | Social History | United States History

    Interview with Marlene Laynez Loarca (2024-10-20)

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