Desi Wisconsin South Asian Immigration Oral History Project, 2020-2021

Biography/History

The Desi Wisconsin South Asian Immigration Oral History Project is comprised of ten audio interviews with immigrants from Southeast Asia. The project was created to document the experiences of early South Asian immigrants to the Milwaukee area. Sharath Raja conducted the interviews in 2020 and 2021. Digital scans of photographs from five of the ten interviewees highlight their lives in India as well as the Milwaukee area over the course of the past decades.