Immigration

March 21, 2025 0

Nobuko Miyamoto Takes Fight for Rights to Boston Stage

Activist legend Nobuko Miyamoto came to Boston for the ArtsEmerson screening of the documentary about her – “Nobuko Miyamoto: A Song in Movement” – and the timing could not have been more appropriate. Amid the anniversary of Executive Order 9066 – which led to the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II – and just before immigration authorities began coming after pro-Palestinian protesters, Nobuko Miyamoto graced the stage and enraptured the audience by performing a set of four of […]

March 21, 2025 0

How Students Abroad View U.S. Under Trump’s Visa Crackdowns

by Darren Liu

The second administration of U.S. Pres. Donald Trump has begun cracking down on immigration, abruptly shortening temporary protective status for Haitians and others fleeing violence, and is now trying to deport a well-known Palestinian rights activist at Columbia University – with threats to cancel visas of many more. How is this news shaping the views of students and graduates around the world who have helped fund America’s colleges and universities in Boston and beyond through tuition? Our Sampan reporter based […]

March 21, 2025 0

Editorial: Bill to Stop China Student Visas Is Xenophobic

by Editorial

In the apparent race toward making xenophobia official U.S. policy, a small group of Republican lawmakers is cheering a bill that would bar Chinese international students from the U.S. Congressman Riley M. Moore of West Virginia, who in a press release calls his bill “groundbreaking,” promises the proposal would stop the issuance of student visas to Chinese nationals. The bill’s name is juvenile sounding – “The Stop Chinese Communist Prying by Vindicating Intellectual Safeguards in Academia Act” and its primary […]

March 21, 2025 0

This War on Immigrants and Minorities Is Personal

by Milourdes Augustin

I was 8 years old when I came to the U.S. with my family from Haiti. When I was 16 years old, my parents bought a house on the South Shore. Weeks later, my siblings and I found fliers left on our lawn from the KKK, which was recruiting people to join a planned rally. When we arrived at school, some of our classmates brought in the same fliers, which were left on their lawns, too. The summer of my […]

March 7, 2025 0

Immigrant Doctors Now See a ‘Pathway’ to Practice in Mass.

by Jeff Millman

During his first rotation in pediatrics as a medical student in Boston in the late 1960s, Dr. Deeb Salem came across a man performing janitorial work in one of the pediatric wards. Dr. Salem, now a cardiologist and professor of medicine at Tufts Medical School, asked around and learned that the man was in fact a doctor before coming to the U.S.“He had fled Cuba when Castro came to power, but it was too hard for him to get licensed […]

March 7, 2025 0

How Asian Americans Fought Key Battles for Immigrant & Civil Rights

by Esther Wang

Tens of millions of immigrants in the U.S. are now, as long promised, in the sights of the administration of Pres. Donald Trump, who is carrying out his threats of mass deportations. The administration is also using various executive orders in attempts to boot certain visa holders from the U.S. and to end Constitutionally protected rights, such as birthright citizenship. Some of these very rights are the same that throughout history Asian Americans have fought hard for, in a long […]

March 7, 2025 0

A Lesson in Shared History

by Zoe Voss Lee

Asian Americans are the fastest-growing ethnic group in the United States. As a community, we come from countless countries, have a diversity of immigration stories, some recent and some dating back hundreds of years, and now have many different versions of an American life. So where does one begin in telling the story of Asians in America? For educator Vivian Wu Wong, the answer is clear: Asian American history is American history. Wu Wong is a designer of “Beyond Gold […]

February 21, 2025 0

Order Said to ‘Criminalize’ Some Non-Citizen Students for Protest

by Adam Smith

With additional reporting by Harmony Witte and D.Y. Photo by Witte. In the spring of 2024, students at colleges all over Greater Boston called out what they viewed as a campaign of genocide in Gaza. The students objected to the U.S. paying for much of Israel’s military expenses. They protested their universities’ ties with U.S. companies who build the weapons and fighter jets used by Israeli forces, by calling for divestment and boycott. And they marched against Israel for dropping […]

February 7, 2025 0

Don’t Say ‘It Won’t Affect Me’: Immigration Expert Gives Take on Trump Crackdown on Immigrants

by Adam Smith

In just the past few weeks, the second administration of Pres. Donald Trump has issued a barrage of executive orders and efforts — as long promised — around immigration enforcement as well as sweeping attempts to upturn rights promised in the U.S. Constitution, such as birth-right citizenship. Most recently his pick for longtime South Dakota governor and former lawmaker, Kristi Noem, as the 8th Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, has stirred concerns from some groups, because […]

January 24, 2025 0

Doctor’s Prescription for Injustice: Speak Up

by Adam Smith

While at Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health a couple years ago, Dr. Yipeng Ge faced a dilemma – and the decision he would make would profoundly influence the following years of his life.Already outspoken on the genocide of indigenous people and racism in North America, Dr. Ge discovered the Palestine Program during graduate studies at Harvard. Also taking courses in the Kennedy School and Harvard Law, he then soon found out about Palestine Trek, or PalTrek. In […]

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