Transforming our understanding of immigration in the past and present.

Immigrant Stories Project

Global Minnesota

Welcome Professor Yuichiro Onishi as Acting Director of the IHRC

Outrage Over Child Separations at the Border

What’s driving the movement to Abolish ICE?

Erika Lee Named UMN Regents Professor

Review: A New Film Investigates the Time America Banned an Entire Race

Upcoming Events

September 21, 2018

Migration across Global Regimes of Childhood Symposium

Read more about Migration across Global Regimes of Childhood Symposium

This one-day symposium explores the history and contemporary politics of child migration, as well as the fundamental discourses of governances – the global “regimes of childhood” – that...

October 4, 2018

Julie deGraffenried: Never Forget: The Uses of Childhood Trauma in the Soviet...

Read more about Julie deGraffenried: Never Forget: The Uses of Childhood Trauma in the Soviet Union (IAS Thursdays)

Children in the Soviet Union suffered horribly during World War II. Conditions created by an invading enemy and policy decisions by state authorities contributed to traumatic experiences...

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Immigration History Research Center

IHRC staff & students examining immigration documents

Immigrant Story: Liang Xiong

Immigrant Story: Thiago Heilman

Immigrant Story: Renita Sebastin

Immigrant Story: Magnolia Yang Sao Yia

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