Immigration (Audio)

58:23 | Mar 28th, 2016

Natalia Molina, professor of history and urban studies at UC San Diego, traces the ways US public health and immigration policies intersected and influenced the country’s response to Mexican immigrati...Show More

55:27 | Dec 14th, 2015

Carol Christ, Director for the Center for Studies in Higher Education, talks with Jamie Merisotis on his new book, America Needs Talent. Merisotis explains that to usher in a new era of innovation and...Show More

57:35 | Mar 25th, 2013

Two recent Supreme Court decisions seem to send conflicting messages about state and local laws regulating noncitizens. In one case, the justices upheld Arizona’s law imposing sanctions on employers w...Show More

07:35 | Mar 13th, 2012

UC Davis economist Giovanni Peri argues that immigration helps the U.S. economy and calls for reforms that would include granting more H1B visas for highly skilled workers and for creating temporary v...Show More

54:34 | Oct 17th, 2011

Seeking to re-imagine the meaning and significance of the international border, UC Davis Law School Dean Kevin Johnson makes a case for eliminating the border as a legal construct that impedes the mov...Show More

1:28:23 | Mar 29th, 2010

The Community Service Organization was a grassroots effort launched in the 1940's that empowered a generation of Mexican-Americans, including Cesar Chavez. Poor immigrants were able to move into the m...Show More

58:29 | Feb 2nd, 2009

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Edward Alden of the Council on Foreign Relations for a discussion of his new book, "The Closing of the American Border." Alden, former Washington bureau chie...Show More

1:29:30 | Feb 2nd, 2009

Internationally acclaimed playwright, filmmaker and activist Luis Valdez discusses the problems of citizenship in the U.S. and the blending of cultures in the dynamic California social landscape. Seri...Show More