"Japanese Migration to Canada, 1877–1988," a new reference essay by Masumi Izumi, was published in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Migration Studies. The article offers a sweeping, deeply ...

Each of us tells a story about who we are, often tracing our identity back through an imagined line of ancestors. Though ...

Jacob Lawrence, “Panel 3” (1940–41) (all images courtesy the Museum of Modern Art, New York) I am only one generation removed from the history of African American migrants who, between 1917 and 1970, ...

Rafis Abazov is adjunct professor at Columbia University and visiting professor at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, member of the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI). His recent book, The ...

A study finds successive waves of human migration to the Philippine Islands. The Philippine Islands are situated at a crossroads of human migration, yet the history of the population and colonization ...

A detail shot of Mary Ann Unger's "Across the Bering Strait" (1992–94), currently on view at Berry Campbell in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood through May 17 (photo Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic) ...

Chicago has certainly been here before. The more than 36,000 migrants that have arrived to Chicago over the past year-and-a-half are just some of the latest to immigrate to a city that, over a century ...