KQED reporter Tyche Hendricks covered a talk by University of Wisconsin historian Marla Ramirez at the IGS Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration Colloquium on September 17, 2026, where Ramirez drew parallels between President Trump's current immigration enforcement efforts and the little-known chapter of U.S. history known as Mexican Repatriation. Ramirez, whose new book "Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation" documents how an estimated 1 million people, the majority of them U.S. citizens, were sent to Mexico between World War I and World...
The Research Workshop in American Politics brings together faculty and graduate students in American politics to share their work in an informal setting. The seminar meets weekly and covers a broad range of topics in American politics. It is primarily a forum for the presentation and discussion of research in progress by graduate students at UC Berkeley. Students who take the workshop for...
The Race, Ethnicity and Immigration Colloquium invites speakers from the Berkeley campus and other institutions to share research touching on various aspects of race, ethnicity, and immigration. One important theme explored by the colloquium is the changing shape of ethnic politics in the country. A second, closely related theme is the impact of
The American Political History Seminar seeks to enrich the study of politics by increasing knowledge and understanding of important topics in American history. Over the last several years, IGS has invited both well-established and junior scholars, as well as a number of...