It sponsors seminars, lectures and workshops that bring highly specialized researchers from the academic world into dialogue with each other and 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 example, the center supports Collections Online: A Digital Library of American Immigration & Ethnic History (COLLAGE), a database of images and narratives.
[3] Starting in 2013, the center began a comprehensive, publicly-accessible digital archive to preserve and share the stories of immigrants and their families, especially through videos with multilingual translations.
[4] 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.