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SOURCE: New York Times
3/14/2023
The US Should Abandon the Fantasy of Sealing the Border
by Dara Lind
A border policy focused on apprehension and driven by social panics about immigration will repeat a cycle of escalation and relaxation without addressing the fundamental human dynamics of migration, argues a border policy scholar.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
3/15/2023
Welcome Corps is the Newest Idea for Welcoming Refugees, but it Has a Long History
by Emily Frazier and Laura E. Alexander
The proposal for a new refugee resettlement agency extends the mission of many religious settlement and humanitarian groups that have operated in the United States for more than 150 years. This has the potential and the peril of bringing resettlement more in line with the characteristics of local communities.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
1/24/2023
Erika Lee and Carol Anderson on Myths and Realities of Race in American History
"The problem we have in the United States is that we use these myths as a way to diminish the humanity and the citizenship of large sectors of our population and to then craft policies based on myths."
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
1/3/2022
Immigration Policies like Title 42 Have Long Encouraged Abuse and Exploitation
by Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez
The militarization of the border increases the likelihood that undocumented migrants will be exploited and abused by smugglers, traffickers, and employers.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
12/21/2022
Enjoying the Christmas Lights? Thank Jewish Refugees from the Ottoman Empire
by Devin E. Naar
The story of Christmas lighting in America follows the paths of Sephardic Jewish immigrants from Turkey, who coped with nativist prejudice, linguistic difference, and labor exploitation to find community and work—including in light bulb factories.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
12/20/2022
Israel's Religious Right Pushes for Restrictive Changes to Law of Return
As Jews around the world are considering Israel as a refuge from antisemitism, that country's religious fundamentalist parties have the political leverage to decide that many fewer people are Jewish enough to qualify for immigration and citizenship. American Reform Jews are particularly affected.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
12/14/2022
The Farm Workforce Modernization Act Raises Troubling Echoes
by Matt Garcia
The support of the United Farm Workers for the bill cuts against the organization's origins in opposition to the Bracero guestworker program, and signals its shift toward advocacy of global responsibility initiatives in the food supply chain. Other labor organizations believe the bill would reestablish indentured servitude in farm work.
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12/11/2022
Immigrant Education in America is a Series of Stories of Courage
by Jessica Lander
One in four K-12 students today is an immigrant or a child of immigrants. A high school history teacher in an immigrant-serving school argues that we need to remember the examples of past educators who defied law and prejudice to make schools places where immigrants became Americans.
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SOURCE: Buzzfeed
12/4/2022
The Racist History of Family Separation, and the Lawyers Challenging It
Attorney Kara Hartzler drew on the work of historian Kelly Lytle Hernández to point out the racist underpinnings of the laws defining "illegal entry" to the United States.
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SOURCE: Canopy Forum
11/30/2022
Open Hearts, Closed Doors: Immigration and the Eclipse of Protestant Cultural Authority in America
by Nicholas T. Pruitt
Liberal Protestants in the early 1960s supported the reform of racially restrictive immigration laws, but ended up encouraging a more diverse nation where their brand of moderate religion was eclipsed by both multiculturalism and conservative white evangelicalism.
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SOURCE: The Metropole
11/17/2022
Immigrant Merchants and Law-and-Order Politics in Detroit
by Kenneth Alyass
The Chaldean community of Detroit became a significant middleman-minority through the operation of small stores in working-class and majority-Black neighborhoods. As white flight and disinvestment created increasingly dire conditions, they also became a constituency for aggressive policing.
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
10/17/2022
What American Dream did Asian Immigrants Find in the Southern California Suburbs?
by James Zarsadiaz
Asian-American suburbs grew east of Los Angeles in part because developers catered to a growing market and in part because Asian Americans embraced some of the anti-urban tropes common in postwar America. Today conflict still surrounds how much diversity the suburban ideal can accommodate.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
10/20/2022
Remarks by LA City Council Members Struck at Local Oaxacan Community
by A.S. Dillingham
Remarks stigmatizing Mexican immigrants with indigenous ancestry point to the fallacy of a unitary Latino identity and highlight the persistence of racial hierarchies in Latin America.
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SOURCE: Jewish Currents
10/19/2022
Today's Conflicts Among American Jews Rooted in Political Origins of Conservative Judaism
The tendency of many Conservative Jewish leaders to eschew partisan politics isn't a reaction to recent polarization, it's the result of a century old effort by influential donors to the Jewish Theological Seminary to marginalize radical immigrants from American Jewish life.
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SOURCE: U.S. Department of Agriculture
9/29/2022
Mireya Loza's History of Farm Work Will Shape Equity in Agriculture Industry
“We should not be creating a system in which guest workers are exploited and exploitable, and we're basically justifying it by saying, well, they're feeding their families.”
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SOURCE: Washington Post
9/25/2022
When Italian Immigrants were Tricked into Debt Peonage in the Jim Crow South
A labor agency in Mississippi experimented with a creative, if evil, solution to the problem of Black demands for labor rights at the turn of the 20th century: trick Italian farmers to sign contracts that shackled them with debt to their employers.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
9/20/2022
Governors DeSantis and Abbott Borrow from the Jim Crow Playbook
by Greta de Jong
"Immigration scholars have noted how U.S. foreign policies contributed to the poverty and violence in Central and South America that migrants are fleeing. Yet rather than acknowledge this – along with assuming the moral responsibilities it entails – some GOP leaders denigrate and dehumanize refugees to win support from voters."
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SOURCE: CNN
9/15/2022
DeSantis's Stunt Echoes a Cruel Chapter of American History
by Nicole Hemmer
The latest immigration stunt shows a Republican party committed to trolling its enemies and disinterested in actual immigration policy.
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SOURCE: New York Times
9/14/2022
Los Angeles to Memorialize 1871 Anti-Chinese Massacre
Architect Annie Chu describes the task of using design and space to evoke an emotional connection to the victims of mass violence whose identities and stories have been largely lost.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
9/16/2022
DeSantis's Martha's Vineyard Stunt Echoes "Reverse Freedom Rides" of Civil Rights Era
The segregationist White Citizens Councils hoped to use the media to dunk on northern liberals by sending poor African Americans north with false promises of jobs, housing and services.
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