Mae Ngai is the Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History at Columbia University.

AMERICANS HAVE been arguing about immigration since the country’s founding. In his first message to Congress as president in ...

Mar. 15—The city of Lowell was built on the backs of immigrants who transformed this city into the industrial powerhouse it ...

On Dec. 23, The Journal Gazette printed an opinion piece by something called Bloomberg Opinion. I have no idea who or what Bloomberg is, but both the headline and the concluding sentence are just ...

Some 276,000 patients were admitted to the medical facility between 1892 and 1951. But the abandoned complex has long been overlooked, and preservationists are fighting to save it Brian D. Scanlan ...

Many women who have changed Britain for the better weren’t originally from our shores. Here are the stories of just some of those inspirational immigrants.

As the crackdown on illegal immigration has intensified under President Donald Trump, T.J. Young has periodically heard scuttlebutt about the possibility of an immigrant detention facility coming to ...

You don’t have to imagine what a nationwide strike in defense of immigrants could look like. It’s already happened. Everyone looking to stop ICE today has a lot to learn from the explosive mass ...

The lessons that flow from Alam’s richly detailed history are very much alive and relevant for understanding the US health care system today.