About the Center
Welcome to the IHRC, an interdisciplinary research center in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota. Founded in 1965, the IHRC promotes research on international migration with a special emphasis on immigrant and refugee life in the U.S. It sponsors seminars, lectures and workshops that bring a highly specialized and multi- disciplinary group of University of Minnesota researchers into dialogue with their national and international peers, with university and high school students and their teachers, with journalists, photographers and filmmakers, and with communities of immigrants and ethnic Americans. The IHRC especially seeks to enrich contemporary debates about international migration—so often heated, emotional, and unrelated to facts—from historical and scholarly perspectives. For 2007-2008, the IHRC is collaborating with the Institute for Global Studies to offer a special series of events called Global REM (Race, Ethnicity, and Migration)
The IHRC is proud to have built one of the largest and most important collections of materials documenting U.S. immigration and refugee life to be found anywhere in the world. It yearly welcomes not only student and faculty researchers from the University and from Minnesota communities but researchers from a wide variety of disciplines from North America and the wider world.
In Fall 2007 IHRC’s website was designated an iGuide website by the online Encyclopedia Brittanica. Here, you will find immediate access to our collections, to information about upcoming events, to faculty- and student-authored commentary on contemporary immigration issues, and links to recent news articles. Explore the IHRC website for information about upcoming events and classes at the University of Minnesota, an introduction to the IHRC affiliated faculty and its community-based support group the “Friends of IHRC,” and for information about workshops, conferences and research projects of the IHRC.
Explore and enjoy!
