{"id":46091,"date":"2025-04-29T21:46:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T21:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=46091"},"modified":"2025-04-29T21:46:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T21:46:47","slug":"american-historical-association-condemns-targeting-of-foreign-scholars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=46091","title":{"rendered":"American Historical Association Condemns Targeting of Foreign Scholars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>International scholars are an integral part of the community of historians represented by the American Historical Association. These students, staff, and faculty contribute to America\u2019s public culture and prosperity through their research, teaching, and broader participation in the intellectual life of higher education. The current administration\u2019s immigration policies and practices threaten the vitality of historical work through the targeting of international scholars for increased scrutiny and legal action. The American Historical Association condemns policies and practices that target international scholars. We deplore the atmosphere of fear and repression created by the harassment of foreign-born students and scholars by government agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The longstanding system for granting visas and overseeing the process for admitting international students to the United States is now in disarray. The State Department has recently revoked the visas of hundreds of international students. Scholars, including those with permanent resident status, have been detained. Records are being terminated in the Student Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) without notifying the students\u2019 host institutions. In a recent press release, US Citizenship and Immigration Services <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/newsroom\/news-releases\/dhs-to-begin-screening-aliens-social-media-activity-for-antisemitism\">announced<\/a> that international scholars are among the individuals whose \u201cantisemitic activity on social media\u201d will be reviewed in the consideration of their immigration status. Visiting foreign scholars have been denied entry into the United States to attend conferences, seminars, and other academic gatherings. These actions have contributed to great uncertainty, with institutions of higher education lacking some of the basic information needed to advise students, staff, and faculty. New policies and practices have curtailed the ability of scholars to travel for their research, stymied institutional collaboration, and prompted talented students to seek educational opportunities elsewhere. Overall, these measures have created an atmosphere in which international scholars fear that what they say in classrooms, what they write in their scholarship, or what they say in public may be used as grounds for the revocation of their visas, the upending of their education, and the suspension of their careers. Such a chilling effect stands to hinder all students\u2019 educational experiences and America\u2019s research and scholarly pre-eminence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not the first time that foreign-born scholars have faced the brunt of domestic political pressure. The Department for Homeland Security (DHS) implemented the SEVIS program to monitor students and exchange visitors in the aftermath of the 9\/11 terrorist attacks. The first Trump administration\u2019s bans on travel from seven countries threatened to <a href=\"https:\/\/today.duke.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/legacy-files\/amicus.pdf\">hinder the ability of universities<\/a> to attract the world\u2019s best scholars and to carry out their educational missions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The American Historical Association <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/news\/aha-condemns-executive-order-restricting-entry-to-the-united-states\/\">once again<\/a> affirms the vital role international scholars play in universities and in history education across the United States. The current administration\u2019s assault on international scholars threatens national and international scholarly networks. It is imperative that all agencies of government respect the legal rights of international scholars presently in the United States and those who seek to come to study and work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following organizations have signed on to this statement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>American Academy of Religion<br>American Association for Italian Studies<br>American Association of Geographers<br>American Musicological Society<br>American Society for Environmental History<br>American Studies Association<br>Association for Asian Studies<br>Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies<br>Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies<br>Berkshire Conference of Women Historians<br>Business History Conference<br>Conference on Asian History<br>French Colonial Historical Society<br>International Solidarity for Academic Freedom in India<br>Labor and Working Class History Association<br>LGBTQ+ History Association<br>National Council on Public History<br>New England Historical Association<br>North American Conference on British Studies<br>North American Victorian Studies Association<br>Organization of American Historians<br>Polish American Historical Association<br>Radical History Review<br>Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era<br>Society for the History of Childhood and Youth<br>Society for US Intellectual History<br>Society of Architectural Historians<br>Western History Association<br>Western Society for French History<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.historians.org\/news\/american-historical-association-condemns-targeting-of-foreign-scholars\">https:\/\/www.historians.org\/news\/american-historical-association-condemns-targeting-of-foreign-scholars<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novosti","category-rasprave"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/AHA.png?fit=240%2C120&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52677,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=52677","url_meta":{"origin":46091,"position":0},"title":"CfP: NAVIGATING THE PAST, FACING THE PRESENT: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN RE-PRESENTING CONFLICTS AND VIOLENCE IN MEMORY AND EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS, WARSAW, 22ND\u201324TH OCTOBER 2026 (DEADLINE: 30TH APRIL 2026)","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"27. travnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"The conference and graduate workshop (October 22-24, 2026, Warsaw) addresses the representation of history in public and institutional contexts, with a focus beyond the often-studied field of \u201cmemory culture\u201d. 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