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The American Immigrant Alliance is an archive and magazine. We document, publish, and preserve the stories and the contributions of the American immigrant — and through that work, we help all Americans see, with greater clarity and honesty.

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From the Editors

What We Mean When We Say American

A founding statement from the editors of the American Immigrant Alliance: why we collect these stories, and who they are for.

By The Editors April 27, 2026

The American Immigrant Alliance was founded on a quiet conviction — that a country is the sum of the stories it agrees to remember, and that the United States has, for too long, remembered the immigrant story incompletely.

We are not a political project. We are an archive, a magazine, and a classroom. We document the lives, the work, and the contributions of the people who came here from somewhere else — and through that documentation, we hope to do a small part in helping all Americans see the country a little more clearly.

This is our founding statement. Everything else we publish is in service of it.

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