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Looking back on the first year of the Biden administration, we remember that there was initially great promise and early progress toward advancing immigrant justice and restoring immigrant rights. The administration began by undoing many of the Trump administration’s racist and draconian immigration policies, including fortifying Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), rescinding the Muslim Ban, and ending government funding of a border wall. Yet, recent actions taken by the current administration, such as expelling Haitian migrants and increasing the number of immigrant detainees during a worldwide pandemic, continue to negatively impact communities.
GCIR's Vice President of Programs Ivy O. Suriyopas interviews Maureen Meyer, the Vice President of Programs at the Washington Office on Latin America, for an expansive conversation about the root causes of migration, the U.S. government’s role in driving instability in the region, and how history can inform philanthropy’s work moving forward. U.S. Intervention and Modern Migration in the Americas timline, the root causes of migration, the U.S. government’s role in driving instability in the region, and how history can inform philanthropy’s work moving forward.
Find all program-related materials for GCIR's webinar "Fighting Exclusion and Expulsion: Protecting the Freedom to Move and to Stay," including the session transcript and relevant links, here.
As the daughter of a Chinese-Thai father and a Filipina mother, I struggled with stereotypes of Asian American/Pacific Islanders (AAPIs), including being perceived as a “perpetual foreigner.” When I was in kindergarten, my parents offered me the choice of learning Thai or Tagalog. However, my classmates were already teasing me because of my perceived otherness, and I roundly rejected learning another language because I was “American.” I received compliments about how “well” I spoke English. And questions such as “Where are you from?” followed by “Where are you really from?” when my answer was unsatisfactory for my interrogator, started to trigger me.
Find all program-related materials for GCIR's webinar "Protecting Immigrant Families and Children" here.
The California Immigrant Justice Infrastructure Fund seeks to invest in and strengthen a thriving power-building ecosystem that can address the immediate and long-term needs of immigrant, migrant, and refugee communities across California.
One in four U.S. children lives in an immigrant family, and the next four years will bring unprecedented threats to their safety and wellbeing. From ongoing family separations and the threat of mass deportations, denial of basic services, and elimination of birthright citizenship, children living in immigrant families - 90 percent of whom are U.S. citizens - are already experiencing trauma.
The Advancing Economic Justice Community of Practice is designed to bring together funders engaged in, or interested in exploring, grantmaking practices that support positive economic outcomes for immigrant and refugee communities.
If you currently fund in, or considering supporting, rural communities and are interested in the intersection of rural issues with migrant justice, we invite you to join GCIR’s Resourcing Rural Belonging Community of Practice.
The Transnational Strategy Community of Practice (CoP) is a learning space for funders to engage with migrant power-building and organizing efforts that extend beyond international borders.
The California Immigrant Inclusion Initiative (CIII) is a community of grantmakers that seek to advance the vision of a just and inclusive California where all immigrants and refugees can live with dignity and respect.
Find all materials for GCIR's "Transnational Strategy Community of Practice Q2 2025 Meeting" here, including the session transcript and relevant links, here.
In partnership with Northern California Grantmakers we invite you to explore how California can remain a pro-immigrant state while the shifts in federal policies and funding retraction dismantle the protections for immigrants across the nation.
As a native-born U.S. citizen working in the movement for immigrant justice, I often reflect on what brought me to this work out of the many social justice issues that demand our attention. Navigating the immigration system alongside my wife who immigrated from Albania to pursue her dreams of a better future opened my eyes to the complex and often challenging immigrant experience in America.
Today we are releasing a policy state of play report that lays out key developments in immigration policy during the first 100 days of the new administration along with opportunities to support the organization and networks carrying out essential work at the local, state, and national levels.
Visit this page to download GCIR's new policy state of play report that lays out key developments in immigration policy during the first 100 days of the new administration along with opportunities to support the organizations and networks carrying out essential work at the local, state, and national levels.
We invite you to join us on May 22nd for the next in-person meeting of the California Immigrant Inclusion Initiative (CIII). The group facilitates funder engagement, creates opportunities for funders to leverage the collective impact of their grantmaking, and fortify funding for the immigrant justice field in California.
In this moment, it is essential that funders committed to the well-being of children and youth respond to these attacks on the rights, safety and stability of children in immigrant households. In this webinar, movement leaders from across the country will share the strategies they are using to combat these threats and create the conditions for all children to thrive, including those who live in immigrant families.
GCIR is organizing a site visit to Northwest Arkansas to complement the GSP 2025 Convening for funders, philanthropic-supporting organizations, and other stakeholders. Arkansas is one of the top five poultry processing states in the nation and has one of the highest concentrations of farmworkers. Immigrants have helped catalyze communities in the northwestern part of the state, a region which would otherwise have experienced significant population decline.