Eleidys Guerra Oral History Interview

culture, education, Edwardsville, immigration, SIUE

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In this oral history interview, Venezuelan student Eleidys Guerra discusses moving to Madison County to study English, leaving behind a job and large family in Venezuela. She describes how she and her son have adapted to their new circumstances with no familiarity with English.

• education
• culture
• immigration

• Carruthers, Heidi

November 20, 2017

• Edwardsville

Spanish

• Oral History

• mp3
• pdf

• 0:40:41

Christian, Stephanie

Guerra, Eleidys

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

64 kbit/s

• Guerra-Eleidys-O-001