"With renewed national attention on Somali Americans, it is worth asking a simple question: How long have Somalis been part ...

Over the past couple of months, mass immigrant arrests, asylum-seekers detained for longer and longer stays, and protests turned violent have shone a spotlight on the Immigration and Customs ...

Professor Nancy Foner on the myths regarding early 20th century immigration to the U.S. and the claims of Vice President Vance on their assimilation. Earlier on today's show, we heard about the ...

In 1876, France gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States as a monument to republican liberty. Conceived by French abolitionist Édouard de Laboulaye and built by artist Frédéric Auguste ...

But the story of immigration came coupled with a long history of immigration control. Alongside the hundreds of ethnographies on immigrant communities, there are hundreds of studies on how the federal ...