Jewish Americans changed their names, but not at Ellis Island
September 30, 2019
—Kirsten Fermaglich
Explore the American Jewish history of name changing which didn’t necessarily happen at Ellis Island like other immigrants
September 30, 2019
—Kirsten Fermaglich
Explore the American Jewish history of name changing which didn’t necessarily happen at Ellis Island like other immigrants
September 19, 2019
—Jenny Wiley Legath
What we can learn from one Deaconess’ experience with migrants in Brownsville, TX and across the border
July 3, 2019
—Cati Coe
Discover the rise of unskilled immigrant care workers helping Americans die peacefully in their homes instead of in nursing homes.
April 10, 2019
—Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia and Mahsa Khanbabai
This morning, a group of leaders in Congress introduced the NO BAN Act. Two immigration attorneys on why this is a vital response to the travel ban travesty.
September 12, 2018
—Greg Prieto
Avoidance and isolation offer immigrants short term protection from the reach of law enforcement, but also form a barrier to participation in the form of agency that is most likely to deliver long term relief: social movement organizing.
July 5, 2018
—Deborah A. Boehm and Susan Terrio
In recent weeks, the crisis of separated families has dominated the news. But the current crisis has been unfolding for decades, part of a long history of separation and suffering that immigrant children and families have experienced because of US immigration policies and practices.
January 19, 2010
José Ramón Sánchez , author of Boricua Power, wrote a great article a couple weeks ago about the NYTimes ignoring Latinos in its year-end round up of deaths. Read the… READ MORE