immigration

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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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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  8/16/2022
  

  Salman Rushdie Changed Everything

  by Siva Vaidhyanathan

  The novelist's creative brilliance and critical acclaim signaled a moment for south Asian people around the world to see themselves outside the frame of colonialism and to grapple with the subcontinent's ethnic and religious fissures. 

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• SOURCE: Minnesota Public Radio
  8/12/2022
  

  Kelly Lytle Hernández on the Linked Histories of Mexico and the US

  "Many Americans don’t know that the histories of the United States and Mexico are inseparably intertwined. But historian Kelly Lytle Hernández says you cannot fully understand one without the other."