by Immigration and Ethnic History Society | Jun 10, 2021 | Blog, guest post
In November 2017, the dramatic escape of North Korean soldier Oh Chong Song across the heavily fortified Joint Security Area of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) grabbed global headlines, as did the post-escape narratives of “freedom” and “miracle” in the ensuing months.... 
by Immigration and Ethnic History Society | Jun 10, 2021 | Blog, guest post
CC: I’m so excited that I get a chance to ask you about your Immigrants in Covid America project. I thought I would introduce myself briefly. My name is Chienyn Chi and I’m the editor/digital humanities intern of Not From Here, the digital publication of the... 
by Immigration and Ethnic History Society | May 10, 2021 | Blog, Featured Post, guest post
This bibliography accompanies Dr. Pliley’s article on the intersection of scholarship on intimate labor and migration in the IEHS newsletter. Since there has been much significant work in the area, she has selected particularly notable publications that have... by Immigration and Ethnic History Society | Apr 21, 2021 | Announcements, Blog, News
Theodore Saloutos Book Award Winner: Uzma Quraishi, Redefining the Immigrant South: Indian and Pakistani Immigration to Houston during the Cold War (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2020). Honorable mention: Adam Goodman, The... 
by Immigration and Ethnic History Society | Apr 1, 2021 | Announcements, News
Migration Scholar Collaborative (MiSC) member, Mae Ngai, was deliberately shoved on the street of New York City’s Upper West Side in what appears to be an anti-Asian motivated attack. Holder of an endowed chair at Columbia University, Professor Ngai is one of the... 