UO Today With Mae Ngai
from UO Today Hosted by Oregon Humanities Center
Mae Ngai, professor of History and Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies at Columbia University, is the 2018-19 Wayne Morse Chair. She discusses the history of immigration to the United States; and talks about how restrictive immigration policy leads to increased illegal immigration. Ngai critiques the Trump administration's rhetoric and political stance on immigration. She is the author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. Ngai gave a talk "Nation of Immigrants: A Short History of an Idea" on January 16, 2019.
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