"With renewed national attention on Somali Americans, it is worth asking a simple question: How long have Somalis been part ...

This video explores the full history of immigration to the United States, from early colonization and forced migration to modern immigration laws and debates. It explains how successive waves of ...

Recently, I gave two presentations: first at the Pope St. John XXIII Seminary in Massachusetts, and the second at Sacred ...

The Trump administration’s efforts to reduce the foreign-born population are being felt in hospitals and soccer leagues and ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON -- Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson on Monday compared slavery to immigration in the United States, a view that experts on slavery called inaccurate and a misleading ...

The crackdown and detentions swept from one coast to the other: day laborers in Los Angeles, a flower seller in Chicago, ...

In addition to demonstrating a basic handling of speaking, reading and writing in English, federal immigration law requires prospective citizens to understand "the fundamentals of the history, and of ...

One does not expect to stumble across news about the Galveston Movement in the august pages of The New Yorker magazine. Discussion of this 20th-century resettlement campaign — a breakaway effort that ...

Depopulation — unremitting, long-term population decline — promises to be the 21st century’s most important demographic trend. After centuries of seemingly unstoppable increase, world population is on ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Stuart Anderson writes about immigration, business and globalization. A screen shows (L-R) Joel Mokyr, an immigrant to the U.S.