The Importance of Mentoring
January 21, 2021
—Margaret M. Chin
During National Mentoring Month, Margaret Chin explores the importance of mentor-mentee relationships.
Category: Immigration and Migration Studies
Remove the Sword of Damocles from DACA
September 24, 2020
—Michael A. Olivas and Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia
The legal and historical roots of DACA run deep and represent one form of prosecutorial discretion exercised by DHS during the Obama administration.
Institutional Racism and New England’s Food
September 3, 2020
—Meg Muckenhoupt
Can we get a New England cookbook that includes the people who produce our food? Or will we continue to celebrate an imaginary all-white past?
DACA: Some Thoughts, Some Links
June 19, 2020
—Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia
Yesterday’s outcome opens the door for thousands of new dreamers to request deferred action for the first time since the policy ended and realize their potential…
Understanding Immigration: A Reading List
January 17, 2020
—Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia
For anyone looking to deepen their understanding of immigration or curious about how we got here and possible solutions, the following books deserve a place on your bookshelf.
Targeting Health: How Anti-Immigrant Policies Threaten Our Health & Our Humanity
January 9, 2020
—Patricia Illingworth and Wendy E. Parmet
When we undermine the health of others or neglect their illness, blind to their suffering, we deny their humanity, reinforcing their “otherness”
Fear of Immigration
October 30, 2019
—Ann Gordon, L. Edward Day, Christopher D. Bader, and Joseph O. Baker
The authors of Fear Itself pull data from their Chapman University survey on American fear of Immigration
Why are some Americans changing their names?
October 28, 2019
—Kirsten Fermaglich
NYU Press author answers the question: Why, in the 21st century, are people feeling compelled to change their names?
