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 ...

Pt. I. Colonial America. Overseas migration from Europe ; English immigrants in America: Virginia, Maryland, and New England ; Slavery and immigrants from Africa ; Other Europeans in Colonial America ...

The Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the foreign-born population are being felt in hospitals and soccer leagues and on Main Streets across the country, with hints of what’s to come. By Lydia ...

The White House seems to be mining the Coolidge era for inspiration. But America is not the country it was in 1924. Credit...Todd Heisler/The New York Times Supported by By Jia Lynn Yang Jia Lynn Yang ...

My colleague Smmo Ozawa and I spent the past year recording oral histories about immigration in the rural United States. One of my favorite interviews happened at the police station in Fort Morgan, a ...

Doing the right thing in the wrong way can be a costly initiative, indeed — especially when Congress gets involved. The Hart-Celler Act (U.S. Immigration Act of 1965) was well-intentioned in ...