Interviews and write up

This project is based on an in-class ethnographic interview conducted with a fellow class member outlining the context of family arrival in the United States drawn from the Silicon Valley region. You will conduct an in-class interview. The exercise will integrate themes and ideas outlined in the course – Ethnographic method, globalization, migration, immigration, etc. – The best interview questions are “open ended.” This means questions that cannot be answered by a Yes or No Example: Closed Question: Did you migrate to San Jose? Example: Open Question: Describe your experience with migration.

After conducting your interview and compiling your notes, write up your data. Provide a description of the person (“John is a 21 year old male college student”), present the data you collected (“John told me his family moved to San Jose from Tucson, Arizona”), and conclude with a paragraph reflecting about the process (“it was interesting to hear his family’s migration story, and made me reconsider my own”) 1 to 2 page report due next week

 What is your name?  Where were you born?  What is your ethnicity?  Regionally, where is your family from?  Tell me about your family’s migration/immigration story…  What generation made the move?  What was special about that generation or family environment that prompted the move?  Do you have family who live far away from you? If so, why?  What are your feelings about immigration to the USA?  What are your thoughts about illegal immigration?  Immigration : is people moving and settling in a nation- state or region to which they are not native.  Migration : is physical movement by humans from one area to another, sometimes over long distances or in large groups.