immigration

Politics & society

Berkeley Talks: The Page Act and the making of racialized US immigration control

A panel of UC Berkeley scholars unpack how the 1875 law helped institutionalize racially targeted exclusion at the border and laid the groundwork for the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act and later U.S. immigration laws.

Jensen Huang, dressed in black, against a mostly black background, makes a dramatic presentation

Business & economics

Who has an edge in startups? Teams with both U.S.-born and immigrant founders.

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Law

A looming crisis: In deportation push, will the U.S. scrap constitutional safeguards?

black-and-white photograph of women in traditional dress from East Asia walk across a bridge toward Angel Island in the early 1900s

Events at Berkeley

Matrix Podcast: 150 years of border control

David Wilson (left), dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy, talks at a public discussion event with Janet Napolitano, former U.S. secretary of homeland security and current faculty director of the UC Berkeley Center for Security in Politics.

Napolitano: U.S. deportation push raises “profound” constitutional issues

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.

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

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

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

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

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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

Students explore Angel Island detainees’ experiences through dance

Angel Island arts project explores immigration, architectures of incarceration

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

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

Berkeley Law experts: ‘Share responsibility for refugee’ displacement

How Korean migrants have found belonging in the Americas

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