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Tag: Immigration
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Susan Suleiman reflects on resilience, girlhood, and identity in memoir
Emerita professor recalls childhood as Holocaust refugee in memoir “Daughter of History.”
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Road map for immigrants in new land
Harvard students create resource for immigrants on housing, health care, education, food, wellness, transportation, and more.
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Working to help homeless in less-welcoming land
Harvard Kennedy School grad Alena Vachnová has been using her passion and skills for ending homelessness to help the Ukrainian refugees who have sought safety in her home city of Kosice, Slovakia.
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But my mother’s in China…
Weike Wang tails Harvard-educated ICU doc through surprise visit after her dad’s death in witty look at family, culture, and COVID
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Applying public health solutions to acute migration dilemma at border
Harvard Chan School Dean Michelle Williams, who is on the leadership council of Vice President Harris’ Partnership for Central America, said stemming the flow, while difficult, is possible.
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Only a little change for migrants at the U.S. border
The danger President Biden faces at the U.S. border is in letting inertia built up over decades continue to deploy a mainly law-enforcement approach, rather than a humanitarian approach, to migrants seeking asylum in the U.S.
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After a hard election, the real work begins
Harvard University scholars, analysts, and affiliates take a look at what the election tells us about the prospects for greater unity and progress, and offer suggestions and predictions about where the new administration will, and should, go.
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Defending those yearning to breathe free
Housed at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program, the Harvard Representation Initiative was created to provide legal representation to undocumented members of the Harvard community, as well as others whose immigration status is at risk.
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Higher ed leaders back Harvard-MIT fight against ICE rules
Harvard and MIT file suit against a federal order requiring international students to attend classes in person this fall or risk deportation, visa denial.
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When we can’t even agree on what is real
New research from Harvard economists finds partisan politics isn’t just shaping policy opinions, it’s distorting our understanding of reality.
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Bacow sits down with lawmakers
Larry Bacow visited the nation’s capital this week to meet with members of Congress to discuss a range of University priorities, including the effects of federal immigration policy on faculty and students at Harvard and at universities across the nation. The visit comes on the heels of a letter Bacow sent to Secretary of State…
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None if by sea
Radcliffe fellow and former director of advocacy and communications for Doctors Without Borders helped rescue 77,000 Mediterranean immigrants over four years — until politicians shut down the operation.
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A rise through the ranks
At Harvard Medical School, Calixto Sáenz worked his way up to become director of the microfluidics core facility.
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Whither that wall
Weeks into a federal government shutdown over the president’s request for money to build a border wall to keep out migrants coming from Central America and Mexico, Harvard analysts discuss the practical, legal, and historical implications of Donald Trump’s possible move to declare a national emergency to bypass congressional opposition.
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Immigration, under the stage lights
At Harvard, a Houghton Library exhibit showcases the influence of immigration on American theater.
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From the page to the stage
Composer and writer Min Kahng talks about how he created his musical “Four Immigrants” in advance of his Harvard visit.
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Where ideas, tensions converge
Mayra Rivera draws on her cross-disciplinary background in her role as Harvard’s faculty chair of the Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights.
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Durbin outlines plight of the undocumented
As the fate of thousands of undocumented Dreamers hangs in the balance, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, a champion of immigration and co-sponsor of the original DREAM Act, spoke at Harvard Kennedy School Thursday evening about the difficulty Democrats will face next week getting new legislation passed through Republican-controlled Congress.
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Tracing migration’s impact
A symposium at the Harvard Global Institute examined the ethical, legal, social, cultural, and economic implications of migration.
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On DACA, questions top answers
When it comes to DACA, panelists say, the road ahead still promises more questions than answers.
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Khizr Khan, reluctant activist
Khizr Khan, the Gold Star father who offered to lend Donald Trump his pocket Constitution in a rebuke of a proposed Muslim ban during the Democratic National Convention, urged Harvard students to “remain standing” for democratic values and principles during this “dark chapter” in American history.
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Hope and loss made vivid
Arab-American artist Helen Zughaib tells the story of the Middle East’s spate of revolutions with brightly colored paintings in her latest exhibit, “Arab Spring/Unfinished Journeys.”
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Examining U.S.-Mexico ties in the age of Trump
Harvard’s expert in Latin America, Davíd Carrasco, spoke with the Gazette about Mexico, which has taken center stage in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, and the long relationship between the two neighboring countries.
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Limitations on the undocumented
A divided Supreme Court ruled against President Obama’s executive actions that could have aided 5 million illegal immigrants, and Harvard analysts reacted.
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Struggle in the shadows
New book by Roberto Gonzales, an assistant professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education, says undocumented young adults are at risk of becoming a disenfranchised underclass.
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Se habla Español
Scholars gathered at Harvard’s Observatory of the Spanish Language to ponder how Spanish can continue thriving as the second-most-common language in the United States.
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Measuring assimilation
U.S. immigrants today are assimilating as quickly or quicker than past generations of immigrants, according to a study by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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Classroom to courtroom
Harvard Law School’s immigration and refugee counseling program helps the often powerless while educating students.
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The price of women’s immigration
Author Sonia Nazario told a Radcliffe conference that people don’t generally know that large numbers of women who immigrate to the United States illegally to get jobs and support their families back home leave their own children behind to do so.
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Empowering a growing minority
Now in its third year, the Latino Leadership Initiative brought 41 students from eight universities to Harvard for a week of leadership training, reflection, and strategizing on projects they will implement when they return to their largely Latino communities.