Mae Ngai

The legacy of the Immigration Act of 1924 and the launching of the Border Patrol, which inaugurated the most restrictive era of US immigration until our own.

A digital atlas that visualizes Manhattan’s and Brooklyn’s transformations during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

May Ngai uses her experiences as an activist in the 1980s and her research on the 19th century Chinese diaspora to debunk stereotypes about Chinese Americans.

On the roads and seas miners traveled to reach gold in the United States and Australia.

If we don’t understand the history of Asian exclusion, we cannot understand the racist hatred of the present.

On the need to rethink the U.S. immigration and refugee policy, which was shaped as part of Cold War strategy.

Historian Mae Ngai reflects on how a century of immigration law created a crisis.