Stockton Immigrant Women Collection, 1980-1986

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Summary

Title:
stockton immigrant women
Dates:
1980-1986
Creators:
Miller, Sally
Abstract:
This collection contains audio interviews, transcriptions, and related newspaper clippings of immigrant women in Stockton.
Extent:
2.25 linear ft.
Language:
Languages represented in the collection: English
Preferred citation:

Stockton Immigrant Women. MSS 239. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection contains audio interviews, transcriptions, and related newspaper clippings of immigrant women in Stockton. In addition to discussing family life, parenting in a new culture, and work, the interviewees revealed their own experiences and struggles of when they immigrated to America and tried to establish themselves. Not only did they discuss their country of origin, traditions, and family life, but many interviewees were asked questions about the women’s liberation movement and changing gender roles and expectations. The collection contains tapes of the proceedings of the Stockton Immigrant Women Conference and Seminars together with miscellaneous papers pertaining to the interview process.

Biographical / historical:

Sally Miller was a Professor of History at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. She organized a conference and three seminars concerning Stockton immigrant women in 1980-81. Miller had her students interview sixty-five women of twenty-seven nationalities ranging in age from twenty to ninety years old. Additional group interviews were conducted at the conference in May 1981. Most of the women interviewed had come to the United States between 1920 and 1950. They worked on farms, in canneries, as dressmakers, as restaurant workers and as teachers. A summary of the Stockton Immigrant Women project was published in The Californians in 1986.

Physical location:
For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Rules or conventions:
Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Silvia Guzman
Date Prepared:
© 2011
Date Encoded:
Machine-readable finding aid created by Michael Wurtz. Machine-readable finding aid derived from MS Word. Date of source: April 15, 2011.

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection open for research.

Terms of access:

Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

Stockton Immigrant Women. MSS 239. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library.

Location of this collection:
University of the Pacific, Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University Library
Stockton, CA 95211, US
Contact:
(209) 946-2404
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