Date of Completion

Spring 5-22-2026

Thesis Advisor(s)

Joshua Mayer

Honors Major

Anthropology

Disciplines

Latin American History | Latina/o Studies | Oral History | Social and Cultural Anthropology | Social Justice | United States History

Abstract

This paper is an oral history study focused on Latine immigration experiences in Connecticut from six different individuals sharing their stories and perspectives on the immigration process. I focus on the act of testimony as a source of grassroots knowledge and attempt to spread this notion of community wisdom further through the creation of zines (small-batch, self-published, non-commercial shortform magazines) as a means of making information more accessible and reaching a larger audience on a local level.

I use oral histories as a method of research that can achieve a deeper, more human understanding of how macro level political decisions manifest on a local, intimate level. I emphasize how this sort of research is essential to address the oftentimes erased stories of Latin American immigrants to the United States, to counteract the way their lives have been reduced to statistics and documents. This oral history instead offers a way to listen directly to individuals voicing their own narratives about their personal experiences in how they entered and have since lived in Connecticut.

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