"In Uganda in 1972 when President Idi Amin announces that he has received a dream from God and that Foreign Indians must be "weeded" out of Uganda in 90 days, twelve-year-old Sabine's life is changed forever."--

This special report follows the roots of the U.S. border crisis back to violence in Central America and the legacy of U.S. involvement.

A compilation of short documentaries on the current undocumented immigration crisis touching topics such as The Wall, the effects of family separation at the border, deportation, and DACA. LANDFALL: As the U.S. currently reels over the consequences of separating parents and their children at the border, this film explores the lingering effects of this trauma on the relationship between a mother and her son who migrated from Colombia. WHAT WOULD YOU...

Almost half of all Americans have at least one ancestor who entered the United States through Ellis Island (also called America's Gateway). In Ellis Island: Tracing Your Family History Through America's Gateway, leading family history author and researcher Loretto Dennis Szucs explains how you can find out if your relatives were among the millions who were processed for entry at this historic landmark. This book details the immigrant experience at...

"This book follows transnational Mexicans as they experience the alienation and unpredictability of deportation, tracing the particular ways that U.S. immigration policies and state removals affect families. Deportation--an emergent global order of social injustice--reaches far beyond the individual deportee, as family members with diverse U.S. immigration statuses, including U.S. citizens, also return after deportation or migrate for the first time....

For decades Denmark has been a symbol of the Scandinavian model and has prided itself on its high standard of living, its excellent social welfare system and its open-mindedness towards minorities (particularly foreign communities). In 2019, the UN declared Denmark the happiest country in the world. However, in the last couple of decades cracks have begun to appear in the Utopian model. The wave of immigrants arriving from the Middle East has stirred...

From her tiny office overlooking the U.S. Interests Section, 58-year old Lourdes counsels thousands of Cubans seeking a U.S. travel visa. She coaches them on answering tricky questions, and fine-tuning their stories so they have a better chance of succeeding. Despite helping others to travel, she has never been able to visit her own mother, son, brothers, grandsons, and nephews in Florida. After a long wait, Lourdes’ time has finally come: her interview...

In September 1940, three teenagers were trapped on a steamship in the port of Hampton Roads, Virginia. Along with 83 other exhausted refugees, the teens were hoping to be allowed on American soil— where millions of others in distress had safely landed before them. But times had changed. America was turning away refugees at this critical time in history. Would they be turned away too? “NOBODY WANTS US” is their story.

Milan, like Paris or Stuttgart, and like many other European cities, is the theater of the drama of immigration. Waalo Fendo illustrates the dehumanization faced by so many immigrants all over the world through the story of Demba and that of his brother Yaro, both Senegalese immigrants in Italy, The film recounts their departure from the village, arrival in Europe, the work they find selling lighters and picking tomatoes in the south of Italy: the...

This series traces the story of Asian Americans, spanning 150 years of immigration, racial politics, and cultural innovation. It is a timely look at the role that Asian Americans have played in defining who we are as a nation.