The current administration’s attacks on immigrants and refugees are unrelenting. Many of us watch this moral and political degeneracy carried out through the coordinated…
In Minnesota, a record number of immigrants and children of immigrants are running for election this year for local, state and national positions, in part to combat increasing…
My name is Yuichiro Onishi, Associate Professor of African American & African Studies and Asian American Studies. Starting this Fall semester, I am beginning my two-year term…
Regents Professor and Director of the Immigration History Research Center Erika Lee discusses the federal government's "zero tolerance" policy, and what is being done about…
The University of Minnesota Board of Regents has given faculty member Erika Lee the distinction of Regents Professor of History and Asian American Studies. The designation…
“The Chinese Exclusion Act,” a new PBS documentary, explores the first American law to restrict the immigration of a particular ethnic group and ban it from citizenship. Above…
Erika Lee, a professor of history in the University of Minnesota’s College of Liberal Arts and director of the University's Immigration History Research Center (IHRC), has…