Immigration and Globalization
Dec 8, 2017The World Economic Forum defines globalization as “the process by which people and goods move easily across borders.” As such, you can’t have globalization without human migration.
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Government Monitoring of Immigrants’ Social Media
Nov 15, 2017Here’s an overview of what you need to know about the government’s social media monitoring of immigrants and visitors to the United States.
These Four U.S. Immigrants Have Won One of Biology’s Top Prizes
Nov 11, 2017There is no Nobel Prize for biology, but the discipline’s top award, the International Prize of Biology, has been awarded every year since 1985 by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Of the 15 Americans who received the… View Article
Truman’s “Fair Deal” and Immigration
Nov 10, 2017On Jan. 5, 1949 President Harry S. Truman gave what is known as his “Fair Deal” speech, in his State of the Union Address to Congress. In the speech he called for national health insurance, an increased minimum wage, public… View Article
Immigration, President Carter and Iran
Nov 10, 2017On Oct. 21, 1979 Jimmy Carter allowed the deposed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi of Iran to enter the U.S. to receive medical treatment for cancer. This humanitarian action towards a single immigrant exacerbated tensions with Iran’s new revolutionary government, led… View Article
Abraham Lincoln and Immigration
Oct 21, 2017During the years before he ran for president, Abraham Lincoln made it clear that he found the anti-immigrant sympathies of the nativist “Know-Nothing Party” to be hypocritical.
These Leading Sociologists Were U.S. Immigrants
Oct 17, 2017Every year since 1980 the American Sociological Association has given the W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award. Several recipients of the award came to the U.S. as immigrants — an experience that informed many aspects of their own work.
How to Save Time and Energy When Reading Immigration Headlines
Oct 11, 2017The White House just announced a set of “Immigration Policy Priorities” that it wants Congress to enact. Headlines blared (as headlines do) that dramatic changes to the U.S. immigration system may now be on the table. (See: White House makes hard-line… View Article
Business and Immigration
Oct 11, 2017Throughout U.S. business history, immigrants have played an important part at every level, from visionary business-founders to the workers who help businesses succeed and grow.
Immigration during the New Deal
Oct 9, 2017Enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1936, the New Deal was a sweeping series of federal programs and reforms designed to counter the effects of the Great Depression. Immigrants played a role both in setting the stage… View Article