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Audio Recording Ma Aye Myint interview conducted by John W. McKerley, 2017-01-20.

Audio recording of interview with Ma Aye Myint.
Audio recording of interview with Ma Aye Myint.

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Title

  • Ma Aye Myint interview conducted by John W. McKerley, 2017-01-20.

Summary

  • Ma Aye Myint was born in the Rakhine state in Burma/Myanmar. She lived in a small village by the sea. Her family grew rice that they sold in a nearby city. She attended government schools and studied history. She hoped to gain a position in the government, but was left waiting for several years (a situation that she attributed to discrimination based on her ethnicity and lack of political connections). Facing poverty at home, she fled across Thailand to Malaysia, where she worked in a restaurant while awaiting refugee status and resettlement. She was eventually able to follow a cousin, who had previously come to live in Marshalltown, Iowa. Myint first found work in a restaurant in Tama, Iowa, but in search of better pay and greater opportunity, she later took a position in the JBS meatpacking plant in Marshalltown. She worked with other people from Burma on a fat trimming line, eventually stepping up to become a steward to address her coworkers' grievances as part of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1149.

Names

  • Myint, Ma Aye, 1983- interviewee.
  • McKerley, John W., interviewer.
  • Occupational Folklife Project, sponsor.

Created / Published

  • 2017-01-20

Headings

  • -  Myint, Ma Aye,--1983---Interviews
  • -  Refugees--Burma--Interviews
  • -  Slaughtering and slaughter-houses
  • -  Civil service
  • -  Wages
  • -  Employee rights
  • -  Collective bargaining
  • -  Education
  • -  Employees--Training of
  • -  Factories
  • -  Labor unions
  • -  Blue collar workers
  • -  Meat industry and trade--Iowa
  • -  Packing-house workers--Iowa--Interviews
  • -  Marshalltown (Iowa),--event place

Genre

  • Sound recordings
  • Digital photographs--Color--2010-2020
  • Interviews
  • Oral histories
  • Personal narratives

Notes

  • -  Thomas Lian served as an interpreter.
  • -  Recorded in Marshalltown, Iowa, January 20, 2017.
  • -  Recent immigrant workers in Iowa's meatpacking industry Archie Green Fellows Project, 2015-2016 (AFC 2015/026: 03383) Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
  • -  To honor the memory of Archie Green (1917-2009), a fellowship program was established at the American Folklife Center in 2010. Archie Green Fellowships support new research in the contemporary culture and traditions of American workers.
  • -  In English and Burmese.

Medium

  • 1 sound file (wav) (00:49:50) : digital, sound.
  • 1 photograph : digital, Camera Raw, color.
  • 1 manuscript : digital, pdf file.

Source Collection

  • Recent immigrant workers in Iowa's meatpacking industry Archie Green Fellows Project, 2015-2016 AFC 2015/026: 03383

Repository

  • Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540 to 4610 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.home

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020655386

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  • audio
  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Myint, Ma Aye, Interviewee, John W McKerley, and Sponsor Occupational Folklife Project. Ma Aye Myint interview conducted by John W. McKerley, -01-20. -01-20, 2017. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2020655386/.

APA citation style:

Myint, M. A., McKerley, J. W. & Occupational Folklife Project, S. (2017) Ma Aye Myint interview conducted by John W. McKerley, -01-20. -01-20. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2020655386/.

MLA citation style:

Myint, Ma Aye, Interviewee, John W McKerley, and Sponsor Occupational Folklife Project. Ma Aye Myint interview conducted by John W. McKerley, -01-20. -01-20, 2017. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2020655386/>.