immigration

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• SOURCE: TIME
  6/22/2020
  

  Britain Celebrates 'Windrush Day' Amid Broader Reckoning on Race

  by Billy Perrigo

  Here's what to know about the history and significance of this British celebration.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  6/23/2020
  

  How 1970s U.S. Immigration Policy Put Mexican Migrants at the Center of a System of Mass Expulsion

  by Adam Goodman

  "90% of the people pushed out of the country during the 20th century were Mexicans deported via a coercive, fast-track administrative process euphemistically referred to as 'voluntary departure,'" writes Adam Goodman.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  6/13/2020
  

  The Surprising Origin of Our Modern Nation of Immigrants

  The landmark 1965 immigration law prioritized family ties, but originally as a way to keep America white.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  5/30/2020
  

  Jared Kushner Is a Know Nothing – Not Just Because He has Failed on so Many Fronts

  by Sidney Blumenthal

  Trump’s son-in-law wants a miniature Republican platform. It is a move with strong parallels – but not to the party of Lincoln

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/22/2020
  

  Immigrant Workers Have Borne the Brunt of COVID-19 Outbreaks at Meatpacking Plants

  by Anya Jabour

  The COVID-19 epidemic should remind us of the hazards faced by immigrant meatpacking workers a century ago, and the labor and industry reforms needed to secure their safety.

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• SOURCE: Urban Milwaukee
  5/26/2020
  

  Wisconsin’s Long History As Swing State

  Wisconsin's status as a swing state in presidential elections is nothing new. It reflects the state's part in major trends in American history including immigration, urbanization, and the rural-urban divide.

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• SOURCE: Counterpunch
  5/22/2020
  

  Greening the Old New Deal

  National service and a green new deal, with lessons from the old new deal, could be the first step in “civilianizing” our nation, and beyond recovery, enhancing the world’s prospects for health, justice, and sustainability.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  

  This Day in History: Coolidge Signs 1924 Immigration Act into Law

  A quota was set that limited immigration to two percent of any given nation’s residents already in the U.S. as of 1890, a provision designed to maintain America’s largely Northern European racial composition.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/25/2020
  

  Donald Trump, Joe Biden and the Vote of the Irish

  The political sympathies of Irish Americans have shifted away from the Democratic party in the decades since John F. Kennedy's presidency.

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  5/19/2020
  

  America’s Immigration Paradox

  A review of Jia Lynn Yang's new work "One Mighty and Irresistible Tide," and Adam Goodman's "The Deportation Machine."

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  5/14/2020
  

  A New History of Being Asian-American

  New Yorker critic Hua Hsu questions whether the PBS documentary series will simplify the experiences of Asian Americans through a lens of celebration that obscures ongoing conflict and prejudice.

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• SOURCE: The Pulitzer Prizes
  5/4/2020
  

  Greg Grandin's The End of The Myth" Awarded Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction

  Historian Greg Grandin's book on the history and symbolism of the border (and border walls) has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. 

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• 5/3/2020
  

  If Farmworkers Are “Essential,” Why Are They Treated So Badly?

  by Lawrence Wittner

  Farmworkers are essential. Our government, businesses and laws treat them as expendable.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/20/2020
  

  The Coronavirus Is Testing America’s Commitment to People’s Constitutional Rights

  The government’s reaction to COVID-19 in jails and ICE detention facilities must follow settled legal precedent on acceptable conditions of confinement. The pandemic does not change that obligation.

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• SOURCE: AHA Perspectives on History
  4/15/2020
  

  Deportation Nation

  Historian Adam Goodman discusses his new book entitled, "The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants."

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• 4/5/2020
  

  Pandemic Exposes Vulnerabilities of Workers on Farms

  by Verónica Martínez-Matsuda

  Defying the broader conservative political forces of the time, the Farm Security Administration extended health care to tens of thousands of migratory agricultural workers because it understood that farmworkers’ health was vital to the nation’s wellbeing.

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• 4/5/2020
  

  US v. Sineneng-Smith Echoes the Fugitive Slave Act

  by Alan J. Singer

  A Supreme Court decision in United States v. Sineneng-Smith that broadens the authority of the federal government to suppress the rights of advocates for undocumented immigrants could divide the nation irreparably.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/31/2020
  

  During the Covid-19 Pandemic, Immigrant Farmworkers are Heroes

  by Eladio Bobadilla

  Tracing Cesar Chavez's transforming views on immigration may shed light on how we can support farmworkers’ rights today.

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• SOURCE: Irish Central
  3/30/2020
  

  Irish Emigrants Tale Told Through Tenement Museum of New York

  Hidden away in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the New York Tenement Museum tells the tale of thousands of Irish families that sailed from Ireland to the United States in search of a better life.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  3/16/2020
  

  This Isn’t the First Time a Virus Caused Social Panic. The Spanish Flu Did Too

  by Gustavo Arellano

  Through letters, newspaper clippings, city council minutes, diaries, and photos, these collections offer lessons from the past that historians say can teach people today about how to confront coronavirus.