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For World Refugee Day, we share the words of the refugee women featured in Accidental Sisters: Refugee Women Struggling Together for a New American Dream. Accidental Sisters follows five refugee women in Houston, Texas, as they navigate a program for single mothers overseen by Alia Altikrity, a form

Practicing Asylum brings together experienced expert witnesses and immigration attorneys to highlight best practices and strategies for giving expert testimony in asylum cases. As the scale and severity of violence in Latin America has grown in the last decade, scholars and attorneys have collaborat

This interview was originally published by the UCI School of Social Sciences, and is reposted here with permission.In their newly released edition of Immigrant America: A Portrait (University of California Press), UCI Distinguished Professor of sociology Rubén G. Rumbaut and Alejandro Portes

American guns have entangled the lives of people on both sides of the US-Mexico border in a vicious circle of violence. After treating wounded migrants and refugees seeking safety in the United States, anthropologist Ieva Jusionyte boldly embarked on a journey in the opposite direction—following the

By Víctor Zúñiga, co-author of The 0.5 Generation: Children Moving from the United States to MexicoOur research on children migrating from the United States to Mexico began 25 years ago in the state of Georgia. There, we were observing the integration of Mexican-origin families and their childre

By Rebecca Sharpless, author of Shackled: 92 Refugees Imprisoned on ICE AirMy new book Shackled recounts the harrowing real-life experiences of 92 individuals abused during a failed deportation flight to Somalia. Through the eyes of Sa’id Janale and Abdulahi Hassan, the book exposes the grim rea

COURT RULES HINDU NOT A 'WHITE PERSON'; Bars High Caste Native of India From Naturalization as an American Citizen.

The story of Jorge Velasquez’s quest for justice for the murder of his daughter and the stories of other women seeking help or safe haven from crime and terror simultaneously transcend the individual and teach us all something about humanity and ourselves.

Pressing Onward: The Imperative Resilience of Latina Migrant Mothers centers the stories of mothers who migrated from Latin America, settled in New Haven, Connecticut, and overcame trauma and ongoing adversity to build futures for their children. These migrant mothers enact imperative resilience, en

By Joowon Park, author of Belonging in a House Divided: The Violence of the North Korean Resettlement ProcessIn October 2022, the decomposed skeletal remains of a 49-year-old North Korean woman were discovered in an apartment in the Yangcheon district of Seoul. Rent had not been paid for over th