Opinions

The Immigration “Black Box”: When Security Screening Leaves Applicants Waiting for Years

By Guanlan Shen On March 13, 2026, a group of Chinese immigrant applicants gathered on Parliament Hill in Ottawa holding placards that displayed how long they had already been waiting in security...

Canada’s “New Opium War”: How Drug Policy Is Destroying a Country

BY Mike Wu  At one time, the First Opium War in 1840 was not only the beginning of modern Chinese history, but also the starting point of a century of national humiliation. Triggered by the opium...

5 years after Atlanta spa shootings: Asian Americans still confront questions of belonging

By Yvaine Ye Stop Asian Hate protest in Washington D.C., March 27, 2021. (Credit: Elvert Barnes/Wikicommons) On March 16, 2021, a gunman killed eight people, including six Asian American women, in...

Lunar New Year is a mix of old and new for second and third generation Asian Americans

By Kai Curry Dr. Sally Chung The Lunar New Year (LNY) is one of the biggest holidays of the year for Asians and Asian Americans, if not the biggest. It is much more important to many than the western...

Asian American Scholar Forum sends letter to Northwestern condemning death of Jane Wu

By Hope Perry Prof. Jane Wu, a researcher at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine, died by suicide in July 2024 after the university shut down her lab. Her daughter called it “a...

Rally and march in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District marks 1886 Chinese removal

A steady downpour of rain and gusting winds did not deter community members of different ages and ethnicities from gathering to confront a dark past of racism, xenophobia, and resentment. By James...

Building the China American Psychoanalytic Alliance

Chinese psychoanalysis emerges through training and scholarship By Karyne Messina, Robert Gordon, and David Scharff Photo by Boris Ulzibat. Creative Commons license. Introduction By Karyne Messina The...

First AANHPI president of Queens College says civic engagement only way to overcome “perpetual foreigner syndrome”

Frank Wu was born in Cleveland, Ohio. But when certain people ask him, “Where are you from?” they’ll follow his answer with, “Where are you really from?” By Carolyn Bick “The addition of that one word...

Do All Asian Americans Have Daddy Issues?

Hollywood insists on telling the same story about Asian Americans, over and over again. By Jason Zhao  As a member of Street, Hollywood’s most feared and respected publication, I recently had the...