I belong here too: An oral history of the immigration of Bangladeshis to New York City

Author

Subat Matin, James Madison UniversityFollow

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Date of Graduation

5-11-2023

Semester of Graduation

Spring

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

Department of History

Advisor(s)

Neel Amin

Evan Friss

Colleen Moore

Abstract

I Belong Here Too is an oral history project which consists of twenty interviews of the Bangladeshi community in New York. The oral histories touch on many aspects of Bangladeshi-American life, history, memory, identity, culture, and the struggles of being an immigrant. It tries to put the interviewees experiences in a larger historical context in order to understand how the Bangladeshi community in Brooklyn, New York has grown and the challenges they faced as immigrants in a new city. The two chapters of this thesis examines the oral history processes and the difficulties of Bangladeshi immigrant women. The project is collaborating with the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA) where it hosts the stories of the interviewees. Link to the oral history project: https://www.saada.org/browse/collection/subat-matin-oral-history-interviews.

Recommended Citation

Matin, Subat, "I belong here too: An oral history of the immigration of Bangladeshis to New York City" (2023). Masters Theses, 2020-current. 216.
https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/masters202029/216