Unfiltered at cspan. Org cspan. Org coronavirus. American history of the university of minnesota, where she is region professor, distinguished unite professor, chair in immigration history and the director of the immigration History Research center. The author of three awardwinning books in u. S. Immigration. American history at americas date chinese immigration during the exclusionary era, 1882 1943, angel island gateway to america and the making of asian america. A history. At the immigration history, we have helped merge immigration history and the digital humanities. She launched an overseas National Endowment for the Humanity Fund and immigration story, projects which work with recent emigres to share their expenses. Her book, america for americans, history of xenophobia in the United States is subject tonight talk. Please welcome erica. [applause] im so glad to be here. Im glad to be back here at town hall. I was so blessed here in 2010, before it was activated. Im happy to be ba
People handled . Just to give you a few numbers to think about as we start off, according to the un, there are 272 million migrants in the world, so were talking about people who have moved from country to country. That is a large number. 3. 5 of the global population. But another number more striking is 70 million displaced persons and if you think about that, we are living at a time where we see more people forced out of their lives and out of their homes, sometimes out of their countries than at any time in history, we see these people on the move. Over half of them, over half of the refugees that are in other countries are from three countries, syria, afghanistan and south suzanne. South sudan, which is also really striking. When you think about what this means for policy, obviously has to be policy for handling refugees, policy for migration, policy for immigration of people who are not refugees. The country still today, the at has the largest foreignborn population is the United
Well what is the problem . And when you start thinking about what is the problem, it goes to a lot of different directions. You have an issue of global migration, you have immigration and immigration policy. You have refugees and displaced persons, and you have the treatment and according to the un, there are 272 million migrants in the world, so you talk about people that have moved from country to country, that is a large number. There have been three and a half part of the global perception, but the bigger number is 70 million displaced persons, and if you think about, that we are living at a time when we see more people forced out of their lives and out of their homes. And you see these people on the move. Over half of the refugees that are in other countries are from three countries, syria afghanistan, and south sudan, which is also really striking. When you think about what this means for policies, then theres obviously policies for handling refugees, policies for migration, poli
For the international and adversity hosted this discussion. The topic of this discussion were about to have his immigration, finding solutions. And i think the first thing we have to do is say what is the problem exactly. And when you start thinking about what is the problem, it goes in a lot of different directions. You have an issue of global migration, you have immigration and immigration policy in the United States, refugee and displaced persons and you have the treatment of people and human rights and how are these people handle. Just to give you a few numbers to think about as we start off, according to the un there are 272 million migrants in the world so were talking about people who have moved from country to country, that is a large number. Three and half of the global population. But another number more striking is 70 million displaced person and if you think about that, we are living at a time where we see more people forced out of their lives and out of their homes, someti
Adversity hosted this discussion. The topic of this discussion were about to have his immigration, finding solutions. And i think the first thing we have to do is say what is the problem exactly. And when you start thinking about what is the problem, it goes in a lot of different directions. You have an issue of global migration, you have immigration and immigration policy in the United States, refugee and displaced persons and you have the treatment of people and human rights and how are these people handle. Just to give you a few numbers to think about as we start off, according to the un there are 272 million migrants in the world so were talking about people who have moved from country to country, that is a large number. Three and half of the global population. But another number more striking is 70 million displaced person and if you think about that, we are living at a time where we see more people forced out of their lives and out of their homes, sometimes out of their countries