immigration

Various members of the Khmer community sit at rows of tables at a room. Many of them appear to be engaged in conversation. One wears a flower in her hair, while another is smiling serenely while wearing a fur hat.

Humanities

The complex story of how the pandemic impacted the Asian American diaspora

Five years after COVID-19, Berkeley researchers are documenting the human story of its global toll on specific communities within that very diverse racial category.

black-and-white photograph of women in traditional dress from East Asia walk across a bridge

Humanities

How Trump’s immigration policies compare to those of America’s past

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Campus & community

Berkeley Talks: Coming of age as an unaccompanied migrant youth in the U.S.

In a black and white photograph, a group of people, including children, stand in front of the White House holding signs that say

Politics & society

How World War I helps explain what gave rise to Trump’s second term

A black-and-white illustration of hundreds of Irish immigrants and families with all their belongings

Afterthoughts: The true origins of American immigration policy

dancers rehearsing

Students explore Angel Island detainees’ experiences through dance

dancers perform outside

Angel Island arts project explores immigration, architectures of incarceration

illustration of a person standing at a podium that says

In bilingual children’s book, a young girl fights for immigrant and labor rights

Em Huang smiling

I’m A Berkeleyan: Em Huang on why it’s important to acknowledge multiple identities

Refugee children in a classroom.

Berkeley Law experts: ‘Share responsibility for refugee’ displacement

Korean church

How Korean migrants have found belonging in the Americas

migrant workers carry bushels of onions in a field

Latinx, Native Americans carry heavier pandemic burden, new poll reports

Berkeley Conversations

After Trump, homeland security leaders urge rebuilding competence, trust

Berkeley Haas student Luis Liang holds up signage defending DACA at a DACA rally in front of San Francisco City Hall in 2018.

First profile in new Berkeley Haas series: Dreamer Luis Alejandro Liang

portrait of aria aber smiling

Berkeley Talks: Poet Aria Aber reads from her 2019 book ‘Hard Damage’

Itzel Medina sits on a bench overlooking Potrero Hill

I’m a Berkeleyan: Student Itzel Calvo Medina on how to balance activism and academics

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