This is hard to answer. I had hoped to find some practical tactics and strategies that I can take back to my community on how to resist when you have no citizenship or legal status. I wanted to learn how previous groups have fought to gain citizenship status, from Native Americans, African-Americans, to Asian-Americans — but as I also was researching Indonesian immigration the lack of items related to Indonesia in the archives became my focus. It was almost like we don’t exist. Perhaps someone else had already done research on citizenship, so I started to feel like telling Indonesian stories would be more impactful for my community. I decided the best way to tell our stories is through our own words and I was inspired to start the oral history project for Indonesians in the diaspora.