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Being undocumented and come to this country is shifting. It gives shifting and it feels completely different through my stages. So citizenship is a ongoing, shifting description that this country has created to label a specific group. And it creates different emotions in me Every time I talk about it. It brings up different visuals, brings up different goals, brings up different narratives, and in it's still changing. And I wonder what that new shift is going to be a few years from now or even a few weeks from now. So I've never heard the word citizenship. Actually, I did. I am from Mexico City. I was born and raised there until I was nine. So in Mexico is cooler than to the land of Sociedad that is very commonly seen everywhere. So I always saw myself as an event which we'd be a translator. Is that citizen? Right? So it's just recognizing that you, you, you, you live in your it's almost like you're labeled as human or existence. So I felt that connection to my country coming to this country. As we start talking about citizenship, all of a sudden, it was not not like it was a new label, but it was really like it was taken away from me. Like as a younger child. I remember, Wait, I was a citizen here. I'm not citizen there. It was just like that concept of it being taken away from me. And then that became a goal, to then fight back, to have it back. So it wasn't like something that I was fighting to get. It was something that I was trying to reclaim because I knew what see that I was coming from from go out at the age of nine. Growing up, then citizenship became a concept that needed to be broken down. So it was like, okay, let me just go and get it. It was more like, Let me break it down now. So it became almost like getting a pieces or like getting like a PhD and really understanding how this country created so much barriers to reclaim what I had in the beginning. So it was learning about residency, permanent residency, learning about the application process, learning about what it takes, who has it, who doesn't have it, who's supposed to get it, who's not supposed to get it? Why don't even I. Why don't I have it? So wanting to, like, from a broader concept of like, Oh, so who's a citizen? How come there's citizens? How come we're not citizens? And as I got older and I was able to understand more complex situations, then it became like, Oh, how come we still don't have it? So it was just like, if it's if I want it back, we should be able to have it by the age of 13 or 14. So it became something that you get, like you get a car, you get a license by a certain period of time. That's how I started when I was nine. I'm like, eventually we'll just get it. It was it was just my citizen that I had in Mexico. I was going to just get it again to be able to be seen as someone that could access everything and like every other person. Okay? When I went to a high school and and came out as undocumented, then then the citizenship became a different story, became not something that's just going to come. It became something that I, in learning that my parents and my family really did not understand the system, that their language was a barrier for them to even like redefining the process and their culture was also a culture of fear or a culture of doubt or a culture of like systemic oppression and poverty and strong connections to Catholicism. Kind of like that's the cross that we got to carry on our shoulders became more of a of impediment for like them to help. It was more like, okay, now this is not something that I was going to grow into. It was something that I need to just get back. It's something that I actually have to fight for it and not with the help of my family, but with finding other network of support.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1674/collection_resources/56838/file/207683#t=3.9,265.08"},{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1674/collection_resources/56838/file/207683/transcript/49537/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1674/collection_resources/56838/file/207683#t=265.81,265.81"},{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1674/collection_resources/56838/file/207683/transcript/49537/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e So then citizenship became my long my individual goal to access by fighting for it by any means, because then it connected to the concept of like, I'll be seen as a human being, as a citizen, and I now need to fight for that. Yeah, you know, a label, especially in high schools, when you had Pete Wilson and Prop 187, so the label of undocumented didn't exist back then. So it was really like you're an illegal immigrant and wanted. You're a criminal. So then more than before that, I'm not one of those labels on me now. Needed to fight for a label that called me what I knew I was when I was younger, which was a citizen, a human, almost any kind of southern parallel. So it was kind of like I needed to humanize my existence again. So by the ad, I'm like, I need to fight to get that label. So in high school, then I really started can be politicized. My community coalition, I came started coming here when I was 16. I was in Seattle when I was 16. And it was it was my my that's where the concept of strategizing and understanding how, you know, there's this flag can mean something as Mickey Mouse and Pluto when it came to this country. But it really has more to it. So then I started really disconnected from this idea of like, oh, you know, just come, I'll just get my citizenship, Meaning like, I'll just get my job, I'll get my education, I'll get all these things that all my friends are doing this they get, you know, age to me was like, no need to actually fight, strategize and network and become very strategic on how I'm going to access those those things. So citizenship became this ultimate goal. Like I needed to figure out how to strategize for me to get that so then I can actually breathe. Yeah. Um, and through that, it really became that. It became like my whole life revolve around citizenship. It was more like when were my parents going to do it? Or like high school? It became like, okay, I need to I need my citizenship to get my license. I needed a citizenship to go to college. I need this to do this. They really it it is like if I don't have this, then I'm going to not exist. It's almost like now people are like, Oh, social media. You don't know social media, you don't exist. It kind of like resembles that feeling back then. If I don't have this, I don't exist. It was almost like I was blocked out from this like network of, of community that had access to, to expression, access to thoughts, access to feelings, access to emotions. And you were literally in the shadows as we eventually talked about, like you just had no access to express. So it became like, I need that label to be able to access, to express, to feel. And that was and that was then as I got older and access those spaces, then citizen citizenship became my tool to be able to be civically engaged, participate in a system that was assigned to eradicate me. So you gain a stronger and a different definition becoming a citizenship. I have a wife and three kids and then it became a tool to be able to actually provide them with better a better quality of life to them. So that's there's been like four stages for some getting older and understanding more complex, you know, situations and have the words and the tools to understand it better. It's been shifting constantly. So in that like there's forces for different definitions I guess, and citizenship and re Now what it means, it means a something that I don't necessarily are fighting for so much, but it's pushed me to my limit that now I'm like whether I get it or not, I I'm now more separating that that civic journey of like acquiring a document to an elevated journey of acquiring my own sanity, which, which separates me from that finally. So kind of like I liberate myself from seeing that as my ultimate goal to breathe. And it's like I can go to a higher level or like a higher vibration of like I can actually access what I want it to do without that which has been the force on me as a concept of denying me to exist. Okay, so now I'm in that level where like, I know I'm going to get it because I'm a permanent resident. I became a permanent person last year. Before that, I did darker but always with the strategize to be able to get my citizenship as I'm getting closer to it. And that's my anxiety has been, um, relinquish and I've been able to access Kaiser and doctors and all this. I've been able to control my anxiety and level, like just have a more levelheaded way of thinking and it's created me. It's given me the opportunity to access more of a higher conscious, which then has liberated me from this concept of my ultimate goal, becoming a citizenship into like my ultimate goal, which is ultimate like this optimum space of peace and harmony and and tranquility without the need to push for that because. Yeah, so that's citizenship for me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1674/collection_resources/56838/file/207683#t=267.15,581.47"},{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1674/collection_resources/56838/file/207683/transcript/49537/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e Okay. Um, I guess I just have one like, one question about, you know, you talk about your childhood and your first encounter with the word to the land citizen. Mm hmm. How did you maybe how did you then practice it? Or imagined the practicing of citizenship, or when did you start conceptualizing and seeing yourself as practicing citizenship? Not more sitting, not not necessarily that citizens being a citizen. Mm hmm. But like, practicing it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1674/collection_resources/56838/file/207683#t=581.83,615.41"},{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1674/collection_resources/56838/file/207683/transcript/49537/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e I'm still not even there yet. Yeah, I think that the first concept was to see it as like, Oh, it's a direct connection to existing in the human being, right?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1674/collection_resources/56838/file/207683#t=621.2,628.9"},{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1674/collection_resources/56838/file/207683/transcript/49537/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e And it's that you mentioned accessing resources.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1674/collection_resources/56838/file/207683#t=629.14,631.03"},{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1674/collection_resources/56838/file/207683/transcript/49537/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e Access and resources, but I think citizenship goes beyond accessing resources, that is. And resources sometimes means clearly food, water and shelter, which are basic needs. So I said citizenship as a human being that could access basic needs. Citizenship goes beyond that in terms of really like being fully civically engaged to not only be given what has been decided for you, but to actually go beyond basic needs and acquire the tools to shift not only the perception of others towards you, but actually shift policies and like talk about things that are going to I'm going to go directly into like higher governmental institutions and that are going to trickle down to your basic needs. Mm hmm. So that's what that was not a acquiring to like one getting over to relinquishing a lot of the stress and anxiety. Three, being active in social justice, work in visually, seeing the change through actively empowering yourself by being engaged in using your ultimate power of like as a citizen and entering specific institutions during the night from entering or specific spaces like voting of actually using the power of vote as a citizen, um, demanding people to stay out of office as a citizen. So that to me is like the full citizenship process to be using, understanding the power, the legal power that now you have to to access that and that that that comes not only with age but also like really understanding beyond and giving you the basic needs, how it connects to the higher policy shift. Give you those basic needs. Mm hmm.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1674/collection_resources/56838/file/207683#t=631.63,746.99"},{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1674/collection_resources/56838/file/207683/transcript/49537/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e Thank you so much. Do you have any other things to add to this particular question?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1674/collection_resources/56838/file/207683#t=749.82,753.69"},{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1674/collection_resources/56838/file/207683/transcript/49537/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e Citizenship. You know, at this point, I think it's really stupid. The thing is, it sounds really annoying. Um. And it's it's sometimes it becomes unintentionally triggering when as a community, we want our community to be citizens. Not understanding that is almost phrasing like we want you to be humans. So because it's connected to a political agenda, we almost reinforce the concept of like, yes, you will not be human or access ultimate or your own power. You want agency or voice into. You get this. And I think unintentionally we reinforce that. Um, even people that are trying to help as a must, which then reinforces the fear of like, unless I have that, will I be able to. And I think we just need to work better on, on both ends, not knowing on the end of people trying to help to understand that there is a higher understanding of your existence beyond reinforcing that document to your label as existing. Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1674/collection_resources/56838/file/207683#t=756.59,829.5"},{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1674/collection_resources/56838/file/207683/transcript/49537/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1674/collection_resources/56838/file/207683#t=831.64,831.97"}]},{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1674/collection_resources/56838/file/207683/transcript/49537","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["English [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1674/collection_resources/56838/file/207683/transcript/49537/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"subtitling","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/file_transcripts/associated_files/000/049/537/original/open-uri20230905-1398252-9g172g?1693957299","format":"text/vtt","language":"en"},"target":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/file_transcripts/associated_files/000/049/537/original/open-uri20230905-1398252-9g172g?1693957299"}]}]}]}