The Other Asian -- Overlooked Asian Pacific Islander Students Speak Out
Hmong-American and Filipino students speak out about responsibilities and challenges of being often over-looked communities on college campuses.
Arriving And Becoming Postcards Around The World
DeBug has put together a crew we like to call the "Arriving and Becoming" crew. Exploring the immigration stories of elders from all over the ...
Flea Market Hustlin'
Immigrants of all backgrounds and ages come to the San Jose Flea Market to sell their goods to survive and create their own American Dream ...
American Dreaming in Downtown San Jose
Chinese immigrants Jimmy and Lucy share their tale of coming to America with next to nothing, how they were taught to make burritos from Mexican ...
We Speak Baylingual Music Series: Arriving and Becoming (Elders Tribute)
A generation of MC's (Malcolm Lee, Cola, Ookie) pay tribute to the immigrant elders that make the Bay Area the diverse community that it is. ...
"I Just Gave You the World"
Photographer and author Tiburon tells one of his childhood stories, remembering an Indian ice cream vendor who would come to his neighborhood. Along the way ...
"Mi Viejito", My Old Dear Friend
As part of a multimedia series called "Arriving and Becoming: The Silicon Valley Story as Told by Immigrant Elders", San Jose Spoken Word Artist, Yosimar ...
"You Should Buy Both" -- A Mexican Mother's Words to Her American Daughter
As part of a multimedia series called "Arriving and Becoming: The Silicon Valley Story as Told by Immigrant Elders", Stephanie Flores tells the story of ...
"I Can't Die Here"
As part of an on going multimedia series called "Arriving and Becoming: The Silicon Valley Story as Told by Immigrant Elders", Octavio Martinez tells the ...
“The world needs a little bit of everything, even a kingpin.”
As part of De-Bug's series covering the experience of immigrant elders, Adrian Avila tells the story of a former kingpin that he came across and ...
Arriving and Becoming
Multimedia Special:
The Silicon Valley Story As Told By Immigrant Elders
This multi-media project, Arriving and Becoming, is a collection of articles, videos, and photography produced by De-Bug media-makers on the immigrant elders of their communities. It is an effort to cross generations, borders, and languages to explore our collective Silicon Valley reality.
Silicon Valley is the destination of families from all over the world. And oftentimes, Silicon Valley immigrant families live in two realities here – the intimate, familial one lived in the language of their homeland, and the public, American one. Our immigrant cities of the Valley exist in a uniquely isolated diversity – many ethnicities and communities living amongst each other, yet not fully knowing of each other’s experiences, memories, hopes, and fears. Surely, our neighborhoods are full of families who speak different languages, eat different foods, pray to different gods – yet share the same bus, and take the same roads when walking their children to school.
This project was made possible with the support of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
