Our Student's Immigrant Experiences
Mission College students come from a variety of backgrounds and experiences. On this page we will highlight those stories of student immigrants, with the help of our ESL classes.
Student Stories in Published Form
Encounters with Discrimination 2018 (pdf)
Encounters with Discriminationa 2019 (pdf)
I remember being an excited, nervous, yet eager to learn 17-year-old, fresh out of high school from Mexico. I held an F1 Visa to study in the United States. While taking ESL, Marketing, and Business classes at Mission, I started working at the IIS Office as a Student Assistant. I went on to finish my degree in Business from SJSU and then earned my MS in Global Security and Intelligence Studies.
Rosa Sosa '11
Avionics Cybersecurity Engineer at NASA
ESL Students and Discrimination
Instructor Myo Myint's ESL class put together a class project dealing with student's individual experiences with discrimination. Their stories are below.
2018 Student Experiences
Kate Lim |
Duong Le |
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Discrimination within her Family |
Discrimination of Being a New Immigrant |
Phuongchi Pham |
Hoang Pham |
| Dignity over Compensation Full Story by P. Pham |
Discrimination that has stuck Full Story by H. Pham |
2019 Student Experiences
Maria Esparanza |
Freshta Ansari |
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Maria talked about wanting to become a female engineer. |
Freshta talked about the discrimination of being a Muslim. |
Martha Flores |
Thi Ton |
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Martha talked about discrimination at her own church. |
Thi talks about the discrimination she experienced at the airport |