UC Press Blog

For World Refugee Day, we share the words of the refugee women featured in Accidental Sisters: Refugee Women Struggling Together for a New American Dream. Accidental Sisters follows five refugee women in Houston, Texas, as they navigate a program for single mothers overseen by Alia Altikrity, a form

We are disturbed and horrified to see the escalating violence directed against Asian Americans, in the Bay Area and around the country. These incidents have increased since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and have been encouraged by inflammatory and xenophobic rhetoric. These are not isolated eve