In November 2017, the dramatic escape of North Korean soldier Oh Chong Song across the heavily fortified Joint Security Area of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) grabbed global headlines, as did the post-escape narratives of “freedom” and “miracle” in the ensuing months. As Oh…
CC: I’m so excited that I get a chance to ask you about your Immigrants in Covid America project. I thought I would introduce myself briefly. My name is Chienyn Chi and I’m the editor/digital humanities intern of Not From…
By Jessica R. Pliley This bibliography accompanies Dr. Pliley’s article on the intersection of scholarship on intimate labor and migration in the IEHS newsletter. Since there has been much significant work in the area, she has selected particularly notable publications…
Theodore Saloutos Book Award Winner: Uzma Quraishi, Redefining the Immigrant South: Indian and Pakistani Immigration to Houston during the Cold War (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2020). Honorable mention: Adam Goodman, The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History…
Migration Scholar Collaborative (MiSC) member, Mae Ngai, was deliberately shoved on thestreet of New York City’s Upper West Side in what appears to be an anti-Asian motivated attack.Holder of an endowed chair at Columbia University, Professor Ngai is one of…
The Immigration and Ethnic History Society stands with our Asian and Asian American community in solidarity, grief, and outrage. We condemn the surge of anti-Asian violence around the world and, recently, the murders of 8 people in Atlanta, including six…
We, the scholars of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, express our outrage over the murders and police killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor among countless others. We condemn the underlying forces of white supremacy and state…
Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Prize: Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof, Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean Honorable Mention: Benjamin Francis-Fallon, Rise of the Latino Vote: A History IEHS First Book Award: Danielle Battisti, Whom We Shall…
Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Prize: S. Deborah Kang, “The INS on the Line” Julian Lim, “Porous Borders” (Honorable Mention) IEHS First Book Award: Hidetaka Hirota, “Expelling the Poor” Rachel Kranson, “Ambivalent Embrace” (Honorable Mention) IEHS Dissertation Award: Bernadette J. Pérez,…
The IEHS calls your attention to Becoming American: A Documentary Film and Discussion Series on Our Immigration Experience, a six-week public program featuring documentary film screenings and scholar-led discussions designed to encourage an informed discussion of immigration issues against the…
