Remaking America: The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 and Its Impact

Allison Gunn Announcement
Location
Maryland, United States
Subject Fields
Diplomacy and International Relations, Human Rights, Immigration & Migration History / Studies, Borderlands, American History / Studies

The Center for the History of the New America is proud to announce our Fall 2015 Conference

 

Remaking America:

The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 and Its Impact

 

Thursday, November 12th, 2015

Prince George's Room, Stamp Student Union

University of Maryland, College Park

 

The conference will explore the policy implications of the revised immigration framework created by the Hart-Celler Act and the impact of the Act on communities in the United States and abroad.  The Act abolished the national origins quota system that had structured American immigration policy since the 1920s, replacing it with a system that opened the doors for the migration of African, Asian, Caribbean, and Latin American peoples. At present some 40 million (nearly 13 percent of the American people) are immigrants. Today’s immigrants arrive from around the world and are incredibly diverse in terms of racial, cultural, and religious identity. This conference will consider the legacy of the Act and the ways that new immigrant populations have profoundly influenced American culture and society.

 

Erika Lee, Director of the Immigration History Research Center and the Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair in Immigration History at the University of Minnesota, will deliver a keynote address.

 

This event is co-sponsored by the Department of History, Department of Anthropology, Department of American Studies, Maryland Population Research Center, Department of Asian American Studies, and MLAW.

 

For more information including a full schedule, see http://newamerica.umd.edu/conferences/fall2015.php

 

If you have any questions about this event, don't hesitate to contact us.

Contact Information
Center For the History of the New AmericaAllison Gunn and Thomas Messersmith, GAs2155 Taliaferro Hall(301) 405-4305
Contact Email
newamerica@umd.edu