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International faculty, staff and students -- we want your voice to be heard! We welcome immigrant and international members of the UMD community to tell their personal stories in ways they are comfortable sharing. To participate, please submit this form and we will be in touch.
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Contact us at international-info@umd.edu with the subject line “Year of Immigration” to share research, writing or other projects.
Latest stories
The Year of Immigration seeks to create a renewed sense of community in College Park
At the Driskell Center, an Artist Shares Her Family’s Migration Journey through Ecuador
A Yearlong Celebration Of Kurt Weill Is Off To An Operatic Start
Pulitzer Prize-winning author talks immigration, refugees at UMD lecture
The Year of Immigration theme seeks to create a renewed sense of community in College Park
‘Voces Sin Fronteras’ Shares Young Immigrants’ Perspectives on Life in the U.S.
Immigration and the Rule of Law in the Trump Administration
Read about the Archive of Immigrant Voices, a UMD project to record oral histories with immigrants to the U.S., all conducted by UMD undergraduate students.
Year of Immigration Announcement
Published in Maryland Today
The Job Search
A monthly series of Q&As with international grad students. Provided by Anna De Cheke Qualls, Senior Advisor to the Dean at the Graduate School: A monthly series of conversations with international graduate students about their successful job searches in the United States and Canada, written by Anna De Cheke Qualls, Senior Advisor to the Dean at the Graduate School:
- Dr. Summer Xia Hu of Wuhan, Hubei Province, China
- Q&A with Dr. Saranaz Barforoush of Tehran, Iran
- Q&A with Jiabao Feng from Jiaxing, China
- Q&A with Yajun Yan of China's Hunan Province
- Q&A with Rohan Bondili of Hyderabad, India
- “The Art of Peer Networking,” featuring Genta Agaj of Kosovo and Angelo Gamarra of Peru
- Q&A with Dr. Jungnam Kim of Suncheon-si, South Korea
- Q&A with Eda Emil of Ankara, Turkey
- Q&A with Dr. Fayez Maajeeny of Makkah, Saudi Arabia
- Q&A with Joseph McKenley of Kingston, Jamaica
- Q&A with Dr. Tasos Lazarides of Nicosia, Cyprus
As part of the Year of Immigration, Professors Wendy Stickle and Christine White took 15 students to Italy this summer to study the intersection between the refugee crisis and human trafficking. They kept a blog during the experience.
Read articles focused on asylum, activism and Latin American immigration, sanctuary jurisdictions, original poetry about the immigration experience, and Q&As with Latinx faculty and staff in previous issues of El Terrapino, published annually by the Latin American Studies Center.
2016–2017
2015-2016
Throughout the year, our Scholars faculty and staff across programs will share their responses to three questions around our 2018–19 annual theme, "Migrations: Populations and Practices on the Move." The questions typically will focus on resources program directors are using for their colloquia. These resources might be field trips, films, readings and more.
A. James Clark School of Engineering Scholarship Spotlight
It is our civic duty to encourage open dialogue, embrace our international diversity, and build bridges to global citizenship.
To integrate your event into the Year of Immigration’s planning and publicity efforts, please reach out to the Office of International Affairs at international-info@umd.edu with “Year of Immigration” in the subject line.
