"Blatantly Unconstitutional": Mae Ngai on Resistance to the Trump Immigration Executive Orders

The Trump executive orders on immigration are "blatantly unconstitutional" and have been limited in the courts -- for now. Join renowned historian Professor Mae Ngai for a critical discussion of the Trump administration’s "shock and awe" immigration policy as we confront a new wave of xenophobic policies, understanding their historical roots, legal implications, and the actions we can take is more urgent than ever. Hosted by the Diversity Caucus and the Democrats Abroad Paris Chapter.

Professor Ngai, an expert on immigration history and law, will provide essential context on how past immigration policies inform today’s challenges, analyze the legal avenues for resistance, and discuss what we can do—both in the U.S. and abroad—to push back against injustice. RSVP is recommended as space is limited. This event is free, with drinks and food available for purchase at the venue.

Mae M. Ngai is Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History at Columbia University, and is a fellow at Institute for Ideas and Imagination at Reid Hall in Paris. She is author of the award winning Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (2004); The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America (2010); and The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics (2021); and coeditor of Corky Lee’s Asian America: Fifty Year of Photographic Justice (2024). She is a U.S. legal and political historian interested in the histories of immigration, citizenship, nationalism, and the Chinese diaspora. Ngai has written on immigration history and policy for the Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic, the Nation, and Dissent. Before becominsg a historian she was a labor-union organizer and educator in New York City, working for District 65-UAW and the Consortium for Worker Education. She is now writing Nation of Immigrants: A Short History of an Idea (under contract with Princeton University Press).

WHEN

Wednesday, February 26, 2025 at 07:00 PM Paris Time

WHERE

Joe Allen
30 rue Pierre Lescot
Paris
75001
France
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CONTACT

Ada Shen
[email protected]

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