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Chris Shand, Clip 3: Diversity in Queens

Collection: Queens Memory Project Collection at Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives: Chris Shand
Date: Time Period: 1970 - 2010; 2010-06-22; Interview recorded: June 22 2010 Material: Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Hindenburg. Dimension: Total running time: 0:02:56
Creator: Chris Shand interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt Identifier: aql:20572 shand_chris_clip3

Description: Chris Shand speaks generally about the ethnic diversity in Queens county and then touches on a difficulty it raises in hospitals. He describes the expensive translations services that hospitals are required to provide free of charge to their non-English speaking patients.

Collection : aql:20455; aql:20681

Creator : Chris Shand interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt

Date : Time Period: 1970 - 2010; 2010-06-22; Interview recorded: June 22 2010

Summary/Description : Chris Shand speaks generally about the ethnic diversity in Queens county and then touches on a difficulty it raises in hospitals. He describes the expensive translations services that hospitals are required to provide free of charge to their non-English speaking patients.

Subject : Translating services; Immigrants; Hospitals; Ethnic restaurants; Cultural pluralism; Flushing Hospital Medical Center (New York, N.Y.)

Rights : This recording is the property of Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives. Please contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.

Coverage : Locations discussed: Waldheim, Flushing, Queens, NY Flushing (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : Oral history

Format : Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Hindenburg.; Total running time: 0:02:56

Identifier : aql:20572 shand_chris_clip3

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Translating services; Immigrants; Hospitals; Ethnic restaurants; Cultural pluralism; Flushing Hospital Medical Center (New York, N.Y.)

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This recording is the property of Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives. Please contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.


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