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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
2/24/2021
A Path to Citizenship for 11 Million Immigrants is a No-Brainer
by A. K. Sandoval-Strausz
The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act showed the effectiveness of a large-scale amnesty for undocumented immigrants and reflected a reasonable and pragmatic approach to normalizing the status of immigrants as workers and community members. It should be remembered as a success and a model.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
2/22/2021
My Brother’s Keeper
by Ada Ferrer
Historian Ada Ferrer offers her own family history of separation and reunification around the Cuban revolution.
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SOURCE: Public Books
2/19/2021
As American as Child Separation
by Rachel Nolan
Laura Briggs's new book on child separation policies links the treatment of contemporary migrants to other historical cases including Native American boarding schools and the sale of enslaved children, showing that the assertion of control over children and families has been a core component of racial nationalism and even genocide.
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SOURCE: Boston Review
2/11/2021
Immigration Enforcement and the Afterlife of the Slave Ship
by Ryan Fontanilla
Since Ronald Reagan's executive order introduced the Haitian Migrant Interdiction Operation, the U.S. Coast Guard has been in an undeclared war against the 120,000 Haitian asylum-seekers it has interdicted, who are labeled "economic" rather than "political" refugees, as though the poverty they are fleeing is not political in nature.
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2/14/2021
Immigrant Families are the Second Casualty of War
by Elliott Young
If truth is the first casualty in war, immigrants follow as a close second. During the first and second world wars, tens of thousands of immigrants in the United States were locked up in prisons as part of a geopolitical game beyond their control.
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SOURCE: Bitter Southerner
2/9/2021
Houston Hip-Hop and Chinese Chicken
by Alana Dao
The story of a restaurant run by Chinese immigrants in Houston is the story of the growth of the diverse Gulf coast metropolis and its fusion of ethnic cultures.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/26/2021
Trump Began With His ‘Great’ Wall. He Ended With It, Too
by Geraldo Cadava
His legacy will be the divisions he has sown between Americans.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/27/2021
Lives Derailed: Notes from Migration Encounters
by Anita Isaacs and Anne Preston
"The contributions of immigrants, and the human toll of anti-immigrant policies should take center stage as we renew our national conversation on immigration."
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1/24/2021
Misremember the Alamo
by Douglas Sackman
Like most Americans, when Trump tries to "remember the Alamo," he gets it all wrong. His recent visit to Alamo, Texas was 240 miles south of the mission so holy to many Texans, but it was closer in spirit than Trump probably realized.
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SOURCE: LA Progressive
1/17/2021
Immigrants, Trump, Pope Francis, and Two Films
by Walter G. Moss
Two recent films evoke Pope Francis's message opposing insular nationalism, a stance which echoes the inclusionary nationalism of the abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
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SOURCE: Public Books
1/20/2021
Solidarity is a Process: Talking with Kelly Lytle Hernandez, Josh Kun, and Destin Jenkins
A panel of scholars discusses the concept of cross-racial solidarity and the prospects of creating powerful coalitions of the disempowered.
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SOURCE: Lowell Sun
12/31/2020
Partnership Led By UMass Lowell Preserves “Little Canada”
An undergraduate honors course in history led by Robert Forrant is developing public history markers to commemorate the Le Petit Canada neighborhood of Lowell, Massachusetts.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
12/10/2020
Immigration Cruelty Didn’t Start With Trump. Will It End Under Biden?
by Elliott Young
There is a long and ignoble history of cruelty toward immigrants in the United States, and the end of the Trump presidency will not change it by itself.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
12/4/2020
French Academics Fear Becoming Scapegoats in War on Terrorism
The killing of a social studies teacher has opened French academics to accusations of supporting radical Islamists and undermining France's policy of national secularism; those who turn a critical lens to French colonialism and racism in contemporary France have received sharp criticism from nationalist and center-right politicians.
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12/6/2020
Recognizing an Unrecognized Chinese American WWII Veteran
by A.J. Wong
In December, Congress honored all Chinese American World War II veterans with the Congressional Gold Medal, and some of their families will be eligible to receive a replica medal in their names. Hoy You Lim (林開祐) was killed in action in France in 1944. None of his survivors could complete the paperwork to receive his medal. The granddaughter of another Chinese American veteran wants to recognize his service.
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SOURCE: New York Times
12/3/2020
The Trump Administration Just Made the Citizenship Test Harder. How Would You Do?
Can you ace the new test for becoming a naturalized US Citizen?
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
12/3/2020
A Lesser-Known Trump Immigration Policy Needs Biden’s Attention
by Smita Ghosh
Biden should reverse the Trump policy of using "expedited removal" to deport migrants without a hearing, which is part of a historical pattern of deportation programs that harm communities, separate families, and sometimes result in legal residents being expelled from the United States.
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SOURCE: Capital Radio
11/30/2020
Can Trump Change A Key Census Count? Supreme Court Hears His Claim
Margo Anderson says that the Trump administration's plan to exclude undocumented immigrants from the census is unprecedented in the history of the count.
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SOURCE: Public Books
11/20/2020
The Enduring Disposability Of Latinx Workers
by Natalia Molina
"For over a century, we have excused systemic inequalities, justifying them by pointing to Mexicans’ difference from 'us'."
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SOURCE: Washington Post
11/30/2020
The Country’s Oldest Chinatown is Fighting for its Life in San Francisco
Tourism to San Francisco has fallen by half since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, and tourist spending has declined even further, impacting many of Chinatown's businesses as well as its social life.
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