MIMS Stands in Solidarity with AAPI Communities

-Press Release-

MARCH 17, 2021: PRESS RELEASE

MIMS Stands in Solidarity with AAPI Communities

The Master’s in Migration Studies Program (MIMS) at the University of San Francisco stands in solidarity and mourns with the families and communities of the eight people who were killed yesterday in Atlanta, Georgia. Of those killed, six were Asian, two were white and almost all, except for one, were women. 

It is a fact that the remarks of the former president have resulted in an increase in anti-Asian hate crimes. The Bay Area also witnessed a recent rise in attacks against our Asian diasporic community—a tragic trend that mirrors the rest of the country. 

As a program, MIMS works and fights to uphold the dignity and rights of immigrants and refugees around the world, and it is in this spirit we condemn white nationalist violence. We condemn the use of racial patriarchal terror to dehumanize and intimidate our communities.

While we mourn another act of white nationalist violence, we also act by pushing the Biden Administration to expand the Office of Civil Rights to address the growing threat of white terrorist nationalism to our communities and our families. We must demand accountability for the rise in violent rhetoric in the past four years, and we counter it by standing in unity and solidarity with those targeted by this violence.