Asian Immigrant Interview

Coming from an Asian immigrant family and being one myself, I always knew that it couldn’t have been easy for my parents to leave everything behind and start a new life in the states. In 2002, my family of seven moved from Vietnam to California. I was only four years old, and have no recollection whatsoever on the process of immigrating. My mother was my choice of interviewee for this assignment, and after conducting the interview, I learned more about my family’s history than I had before. To begin, I asked my mother how we immigrated to the U.S. The immigration was made possible by my grandma, whom had already established citizenship in the U.S. My grandma, my father’s adopted mom, had applied for a petition in order to bring family over