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U.S. Immigration Policy Has Always Prioritized Keeping Families Together

Everyone from immigration advocates to bigots and nativists have valued family unity.
by Paul A. Kramer via Made By History on June 26, 2018
Pat Buchanan surrounded by balloons at a campaign rally.

Trumpism Before Trump

The popular Trump rhetoric of demonizing immigrants has been procured for decades.
by Calvin Terbeek, Robert L. Tsai via Boston Review on June 11, 2018

The Liberal Delusion of #ResistanceGenealogy

The effort to dig up information about the immigrant ancestors of prominent Trumpsters is doing more harm than good.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on May 15, 2018

Why Irish America Is Not Evergreen

Thanks to federal immigration policies, immigration from Ireland has all but dried up.
by Sadhbh Walshe via New York Review of Books on March 16, 2018

Trump’s Move to End DACA and Echoes of the Immigration Act of 1924

By ending DACA, President Trump seems to be trying to resurrect a national immigration policy defined by racial engineering.
by Jelani Cobb via The New Yorker on September 5, 2017

A Brief History of America’s ‘Love-Hate Relationship’ With Immigration

Donald Trump’s restrictive plan is reminiscent of legislation from 100 years ago.
by Alan M. Kraut, Priscilla Alvarez via The Atlantic on February 19, 2017

“This is Not Who We Are,” Critics Say About the Refugee Ban. But What if it is?

Fighting over immigration is central to the American story.
by Nicole Hemmer via Vox on February 9, 2017

Literacy Tests and Asian Exclusion Were the Hallmarks of the 1917 Immigration Act

One hundred years ago, the U.S. Congress decided that there needed to be severe limits on who was coming into the country.
by Lorraine Boissoneault via Smithsonian on February 6, 2017

Not Who We Are

The U.S. is neither a land of nativists nor a haven for immigrants. Since the founding, the truth has lain somewhere in between.
by Paul A. Kramer via Slate on February 3, 2017

#ImmigrationSyllabus

A semester-length guide for educators and citizens seeking to understand the history and meaning of immigration in the U.S.
by Erika Lee, María Cristina García, Adam Goodman, Madeline Hsu, Julian Lim, Maddalena Marinari, Evan Taparata via University of Minnesota on January 26, 2017

Fifty Years On, the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act Continues to Reshape the United States

An analysis of the significance, unintended consequences, and implications ofthe 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act fifty years later.
by Muzaffar Chishti, Faye Hipsman, Isabel Ball via Migration Policy Institute on October 15, 2015
Over the next 50 years, Asians will surge past Latinos to become the largest group of immigrants heading to the U.S., according to a new study. Above, a naturalization ceremony in New York City in 2013.

The Law That Created Illegal Immigration

Discussion of the Hart-Cellar Act that was passed 50 years ago.
by Jane H. Hong via Los Angeles Times on October 2, 2015
Political cartoon depicting children recoiling from Catholic bishops crawling onto the beach with their robes and hats making them look like crocodiles.

When America Hated Catholics

In the late 19th century, statesmen feared that Catholics were something less than civilized (and less than white).
by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on September 23, 2015

37 Maps That Explain How America Is a Nation of Immigrants

It's impossible to understand the country without knowing who's been kept out, who's been let in, and how they've been treated once they arrive.
by Dara Lind via Vox on January 12, 2015

Great Migration Debates: Keywords in Historical Perspective

The use of the word "immigrant" in contemporary debates often reflects a lack of understanding of U.S. immigration history.
by Donna Gabaccia via Social Science Research Council on July 28, 2006

Remarks at the Signing of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965

President Lyndon B. Johnson, Liberty Island, New York, October 3, 1965.
by Lyndon Baines Johnson via LBJ Presidential Library on October 3, 1965
Lyndon Johnson.

Special Message to the Congress on Immigration

In early 1965, President Johnson made the case to Congress for comprehensive immigration reform.
by Lyndon Baines Johnson via The American Presidency Project on January 13, 1965
Photo of Galveston County Jail, 1929.

How Texas Jails Built Migrant Incarceration

Following a 1925 investigation, immigrant detention in the Galveston County Jail was declared “a crime against humanity.”
by Brianna Nofil via The Texas Observer on November 19, 2024
Chinese immigrants and American immigration officers at Ellis Island.
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The Perils of Vilifying Chinese Migrants

As Chinese migrants arrive at the U.S.-Mexico border, politicians are reviving old anti-Chinese rhetoric that has done lasting harm.
by Meredith Oyen via Made By History on August 13, 2024
President Calvin Coolidge raising his hand behind a podium to be sworn into office.
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Behind America’s First Comprehensive Federal Immigration Law

Even as the primary targets of immigration restrictionism have shifted, the consequences for immigrants remain profoundly shaped by the system created in 1924.
by Devin E. Naar via Made By History on July 9, 2024
An aerial view of the International Bridge over the in Rio Grande, Laredo, Texas.
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The Image of Control

Following the careers of a family of especially corrupt border control officials.
by John Weber via HNN on June 11, 2024
Three immigrants with chained hands and feet ascending staircase to a plane to be deported.

America’s Medicalized Borders: Past, Present, and Possible Future

Undoing the politics of fear will require us to reckon with the legacies of nativism that divert our attention from the greatest threats to our health.
by Carlos Martinez via Public Books on May 29, 2024
Cards reading "visa" and "permanent resident".

Impossible Systems: On Carly Goodman’s “Dreamland”

The visa lottery reveals the inherent myths and contradictions at play in the US immigration system.
by Tim Hirschel-Burns via Los Angeles Review of Books on July 13, 2023
IMPERATOR Steam ship.

The Students Who Went to Sea

"The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge"
by William H. Whyte via Literary Review on July 7, 2023
Gelringer family, who were later deported to Auschwitz.

The Millions We Failed to Save

The recent documentary "The US and the Holocaust" is a scathing, even bombastic indictment of US immigration policy over the past 160 years.
by Ruth Franklin via New York Review of Books on June 1, 2023
Hari Kondabolu and Hank Azaria.
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What’s Missing in the Discussion About Race Sparked by Apu in ‘The Simpsons’

The history of Sephardic Jews challenges our ideas about race in America.
by Devin E. Naar via Made By History on May 18, 2023
Crowds of people filling Ellis Island Immigration Station

Ken Burns Turns His Lens on the American Response to the Holocaust

Commemorating the Holocaust has become a central part of American culture, but the nation’s reaction in real time was another story.
by James McAuley via The New Yorker on September 18, 2022
Dancing at the spring festival at St. George in 1984.

'The World Was Ukrainian'

A stubborn and surprising immigrant enclave, hiding in plain sight on the Lower East Side.
by Christopher Bonanos via Curbed on April 11, 2022
Vintage stereogram of Chinatown, San Francisco, ca. 1920s-30s.

How a California Archive Reconnected a New Mexico Family with its Chinese Roots

Aimee Towi Mae Tang’s Chinese American family never talked about the past. She decided to change that.
by Wufei Yu via High Country News on April 1, 2022
1950s American family watching TV.

How American Culture Ate the World

A new book explains why Americans know so little about other countries.
by Dexter Fergie via The New Republic on March 24, 2022
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