Immigration “Invasion” Rhetoric Has a Long, Ugly History
August 25, 2022Using inflammatory and dehumanizing language to describe immigrants is nothing new, and neither is the violence it causes.
Immigration History
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Enjoy the following educational posts about the history of immigration to the United States — from the colonial era to the present.
A Short History of LGBTQ Immigration Policy
June 6, 2022Immigrants have always been part of the American LGBTQ story, but discrimination against LGBTQ immigrants has a long history too.
Immigrants and the Oscars: Winners Past and Present
April 22, 2021Minari, a film about a Korean-American family, is nominated for six Academy Awards this yearThe Oscars have a problem with diversity. Over the years, roughly 552 awards in top categories have been given out, with only 24 going to people… View Article
Some of America’s Favorite Pies Were Invented By Immigrants
March 12, 2021Did you know that some of America’s most beloved pies originated elsewhere? Below, a history of some delectable pies, from recipes brought to the United States by immigrants.Apple PieThe first documented placement of apples in a crust dates to 1381;… View Article
A Third of 2019 Nobel Prize Winners are Immigrants
October 18, 2019Four of this year’s U.S. Nobel Prize laureates are immigrants.The winners are UK-born M. Stanley Whittingham, a professor at Binghamton University in New York, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry; Canadian-born James Peebles, a professor at Princeton University,… View Article
Immigration in Education: How Many U.S Teachers Are Immigrants?
July 16, 2019According to a 2019 report from George Mason University, approximately 857,200 of the estimated 8.1 million teachers in the U.S. are immigrants.Here are a few more takeaways from the report:More than half of foreign-born teachers are U.S. citizens. Approximately 56… View Article
Immigrant Voting Rights
March 10, 2018The first major piece of U.S. legislation dealing with immigrant voting rights was the Naturalization Act of 1790, which allowed people born outside the United States to become citizens with voting rights — provided they were white men.The passage of… View Article
These U.S. Immigrants Won Political Science’s Most Prestigious Prize
December 17, 2017Nicknamed the “Nobel Prize in Political Science,” the Johan Skytte Prize has been awarded annually since 1995 “to the scholar who in the view of the Foundation has made the most valuable contribution to political science.” These Skytte Prize-winners had something… View Article
Civil Rights and Immigration
December 8, 2017One legal definition of civil rights describes them as “an enforceable right or privilege, which if interfered with by another gives rise to an action for injury.” The civil rights afforded to immigrants allow them equal protection under the law… View Article
Immigration and Globalization
December 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. People cross borders to offer their labor, their investments and their ideas in… View Article