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Tania discusses the places in and near Jackson Heights that Tania often visited while growing up, leisure activities that Tania and other neighborhood children engaged in, and the schools that Tania attended from elementary school through graduate school.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eTania speaks about initially getting involved in immigrant rights issues related to the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act (DREAM Act), plus Tania's current employment with UnLocal, a nonprofit organization that provides legal representation, community education, outreach, and advocacy for New York City's undocumented immigrant communities. Tania details the work of Queens Neighborhoods United, particularly Tania's active involvement in trying to stop the expansion of the 82nd Street business improvement district in Jackson Heights. Tania criticizes public rhetoric and policing in regards to immigrant populations in Jackson Heights and adjacent neighborhoods, as well as local elected officials (including New York State Senator Jose Peralta and United States Representative Joseph Crowley) for not acting in the interests of immigrant communities in their districts. Tania, now a married adult living in Jackson Heights, reflects on life in Tania's current apartment building, the challenges of advocacy and community organizing in Queens, and personal hopes for Queens in the future particularly regarding immigrant women.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCC BY-NC-SA Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["http://digitalarchives.queenslibrary.org/search/browse/40397"]}},{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2018-09-24 (created)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Type"]},"value":{"en":["Audio"]}},{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":["Tania Mattos Jose (Interviewee)","Fran Kipnis (Interviewer)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Coverage"]},"value":{"en":["1983-2018 (temporal)","Jackson Heights, Corona, and Elmhurst, Queens, NY; Manhattan, NY; La Paz, Bolivia (spatial)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 1:\u003c/strong\u003e Tania Mattos Jose talks about co-founding Queens Neighborhoods United, a grassroots volunteer-run group based in Jackson Heights, Corona, and Elmhurst. 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Tania criticizes public rhetoric and policing in regards to immigrant populations in Jackson Heights and adjacent neighborhoods, as well as local elected officials (including New York State Senator Jose Peralta and United States Representative Joseph Crowley) for not acting in the interests of immigrant communities in their districts. 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