Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
President Trump Sunday said he would deny citizenship to those born in the U.S. to non-citizen parents while also deporting children of undocumented immigrants even if those children are citizens. reports the Wall Street Journal.
A reintroduced bill in Congress called the Adoptee Citizenship Act would close a legal loophole and grant those adoptees citizenship. The bill has received bi-partisan support, introduced in the Senate by Senators Mazie Hirono (D-HI) and Susan Collins (R-ME), and introduced in the House of Representatives by Congressman Adam Smith (D-WA) and Congressman Don Bacon … Read more
Adding a citizenship question to the census reduces the participation of people who aren’t U.S. citizens, particularly those from Latin American countries, according to a new research paper that comes as Republicans in Congress are pushing to add such a question to the census form.
In Refusing Death, Nadia Y. Kim tells the stories of Asian and undocumented Latin@ immigrant women, finding that they are influential because of their ability to remap politics, community, and citizenship in the face of the country’s nativist racism and system of class injustice, defined not just by disproportionate environmental pollution but also by neglected schools, surveillance and deportation, and political marginalization.
Many historians and Japanese Americans cite the loss of U.S. citizenship rights as the biggest injustice of the camps, and many believe cooperation and not resistance was the norm. Join Dr. Gary Okihiro as he outlines the nature of the oppression in that historical experience, and the resistance posed to those oppressive acts.
Taking into account considerations of immigration, race, gender, and diaspora, AAARI’s 2019 annual conference asks: What does the meteoric rise of Trumpian racist white nationalism say about the nature of systemic racism in our country today? Why is it now primarily and explicitly rooted in anti-Mexican and anti-Muslim nativist racism, and where do Asian American Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) — their diverse ethnic groups — fit (or not fit) in these citizenship orders? How has the higher education research community and the activist community collaborated and how can they continue to strategically collaborate together?