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The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated communities across the United States and has given us a new appreciation for the role all essential workers play in our economy and in our lives. Speakers will address the role of immigrants as essential workers and healthcare providers, how it has left them vulnerable to the virus, and the impact that changes to immigration policy have had on immigrant communities. 

University Policy 1415 requires appropriate face coverings for all faculty, staff, students, visitors, and vendors on campus. Learn more about this important element of the Safe Return to Campus plan.

The three finalists for the 2020 Institute for Immigration Research New American Voices Award are novelists Ishmael Beah, author of Little Family; Vanessa Hua, author of Deceit and Other Possibilities; and Lysley Tenorio, author of The Son of Good Fortune.

The Institute for Immigration Research (IIR) is proud to announce that The Immigrant Stories Project has added added immigrants from El Salvador. This is the eighth profile in this project.

Mason's Interim Provost and Executive Vice President Mark Ginsberg has sent a communication to all Mason students welcoming them back to campus for fall 2020, and outlining learning options and safety precautions.

The Parallel Pandemic Project (PPP) is an effort to document and understand when and how the paths of the United States and Pakistan converge and diverge over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Words are failing all of us in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. When leaders reach for words like outrage, horror, or despair, they only do more damage when they are not matched by action

On the With Good Reason Radio program, James Witte, sociology professor and director of the Institute for Immigration Research, and Marissa Kiss, a graduate research assistant with IIR, discussed foreign-born players in Major League Baseball and how their numbers link to U.S. immigration policy.