Oral history interview with Kirthi Chandrasekar, 2009 November 20.

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Oral history interview with Kirthi Chandrasekar, 2009 November 20.

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Interview with Kirthi Chandrasekar, an India-born immigrant to suburban Carrollton, Texas, concerning her childhood and education in Bangalore, Madurai, and other locations throughout India; 1994 arranged marriage to a family friend living in New Jersey; first impressions of the U.S.; enrollment in Rutgers University M.A. program in statistics; work in insurance industry; immigration bureaucracy; struggle to keep close ties with family in India; 2005 relocation to Dallas suburb; comparison and contrast of life in India, New Jersey, and Texas.

55 leaves ; 29 cm.

University of North Texas Library, UNT

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University of North Texas Library, UNT

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