immigration

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  10/7/2021
  

  History Answers the Inexplicable: Interview with Madeline Hsu

  by Shirley Lung

  "Asian Pacific Americans is a census category. It does not reflect the lived experiences, in fact, of many ethnic Asian persons living in the United States....But it is politically a necessity, in part because of the racial projects at work. These killings were racially motivated."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/4/2021
  

  What America Owes Haitian Asylum Seekers

  by Michael Posner

  "The plight of the Haitians has been further complicated by decades of misrule, corruption and brutality by a series of Haitian governments that received steady U.S. financial and political support despite egregious records on human rights."

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9/24/2021
  

  The Latest Episode in the History of American Mistreatment of Haitian Migrants

  by Edwidge Danticat

  Novelist Edwidge Danticat explains the lengthy history of mistreatment of Haitian migrants by American authorities. 

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• SOURCE: Texas Monthly
  9/30/2021
  

  Monica Muñoz Martinez Is Setting the Record Straight on Texas’s History of Border Violence

  "As a historian, when I’m researching these events of racist violence that have not been documented, I don’t know what is going to happen or what the outcome will be. It is really hard to read newspaper articles that celebrate violence."

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• SOURCE: NPR
  9/26/2021
  

  Kathleen Belew Explains the White Supremacist "Great Replacement" Ideology

  NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Kathleen Belew, co-editor of "A Field Guide to White Supremacy" about Great Replacement Theory, also known as White Replacement Theory.

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• 9/26/2021
  

  The Border and the Contingent Status of Mexican Workers

  by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  In this excerpt from her new book "Not 'A Nation of Immigrants'," Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz argues that the politics of the border and the racialization of Mexican laborers has been a longstanding and glaring exception to the American myth of welcoming immigrants. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/21/2021
  

  The Myth of "Open Borders"

  by Anna O. Law

  Recent efforts by Texas and other states to claim the power to apprehend suspected undocumented immigrants reflects a conflict of federalism that traces back to the efforts of slave states to control the movement of free Black people in their territories and of northern states to keep out poor immigrants.

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• SOURCE: WNYC
  9/20/2021
  

  What is Citizenship? A Conversation with Mae Ngai on The Takeaway

  The Takeaway speaks with historian Mae Ngai about how notions of U.S. citizenship have changed over time.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/16/2021
  

  Politicians, not Migrants, are Fueling the Pandemic's Resurgence

  by Randa Tawil

  At the height of colonialism, European governments rejected calls for quarantine to keep global commerce humming, and blamed supposedly unsanitary local populations for the inevitable spread of cholera. Governors in some US states are repeating this mistake today. 

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• SOURCE: Atlas Obscura
  9/10/2021
  

  The Challenges of Reclaiming Filipino Louisiana’s Centuries-Old History

  “Filipinos in Louisiana are always being ‘discovered,’ says Randy Gonzalez. Someone will write an article, ‘I bet you didn’t know there were Filipinos in Louisiana!’ Ten years later, someone will write the same article. I wish that would stop one day.”

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  8/25/2021
  

  70 Years after the UN Refugee Convention, the US Needs to Commit to Helping Displaced People

  by Linda K. Kerber

  The UN Refugee Convention does not impose any real obligations on any nation to offer asylum. The United States must lead the way in recognition of the deeply interconnected world created in large part by American power.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/26/2021
  

  The Failed Plan to Replace the South's Black Labor Force with Chinese Immigrants

  James Loewen's work "The Mississippi Chinese" is a touchstone for writer Jay Caspian Kang, who reflects on the connections between race and exploitation in history. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  8/25/2021
  

  Nevada Judge: Major Immigration Law is Too Racist to Remain in Force

  The history of legislative debate over the Undesirable Aliens Act of 1929 was a factor in demonstrating that a law criminalizing reentering the US after being deported was intended to discriminate against ethnic Mexicans and violates the Constitution. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  8/20/2021
  

  Both the Right and Left Need to Remember Demography is Not Destiny

  by Adam Serwer

  The 2020 Census has fueled optimism on the left and panic on the right about American demographics. But past periods of ethnic change have shown the fluidity of racial categories defies expectations.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  8/23/2021
  

  America Once was Eager for Chinese Immigration. Mae Ngai's Book Explains What Happened

  The first wave of the California Gold Rush was "a nettlesome experiment in multiracial democracy that had little precedent in the country's history," but resulted in the development of institutionalized anti-Asian nativism as a political force.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  8/22/2021
  

  Nativism Has Thwarted American Refugee Resettlement Before

  by E. Kyle Romero

  Political hostility toward the Bolshevik revolution and anti-Asian racism were among the factors that prevented the resettlement of World War I refugees in the United States, leaving their care to Eurpoean nations wracked by war. 

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• 8/29/2021
  

  Bigler's Gambit: How the California Gold Fields Gave Rise to Global Anti-Chinese Politics

  by Mae Ngai

  The Chinese Question and Chinese exclusion policies that circumnavigated the Anglo-American world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries grew in local soils, and shifted and evolved as it crossed the Pacific world and supported the consolidation of British and American power over global emigration and trade."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  

  GOP Revives Old Tactic: Blame Outsiders for Disease

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  "The coronavirus is spreading most rapidly in places with low vaccination rates, not high immigration."

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  8/6/2021
  

  2 Years After El Paso Attack, the "Great Replacement" Ideology Remains Dangerous

  A discussion of the legacy of John Tanton, the father of contemporary nativism and a principal exponent of the idea of an ethnic "replacement" of white Americans.

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  8/3/2021
  

  The Migration Crisis is a Gendered Violence Crisis

  by Laura Briggs and María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo

  Central American women are frequently pushed to migrate by the threat of sexual violence. American policy inflicts further gendered harm through family separation and border militarization.