immigration

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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. 

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  

  The Border Patrol Helped Create the "Browning" of America

  The family story of historian Mireya Loza and her father Pedro illustrates an irony of militarized border enforcement: Labor migrants who once contemplated returning to Mexico or Central America were forced to stay in the US and raise American families.

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• 7/25/2021
  

  Explaining the Different Post-Colonial Trajectories of Ireland and Haiti

  by Alan J. Singer

  "The divergent paths of Haiti and Ireland are rooted in the history of 19th century European colonialism, European and American racism, and the very different alternatives offered to the people of the former colonies for the last two hundred plus years."

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  7/18/2021
  

  Migration Is Not the Crisis

  by Aviva Chomsky

  Migration from Central America is rooted in American support for exploitative oligarchies and export-oriented industry under the guises of anticommunism and economic development. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  7/8/2021
  

  The Root Cause of Central American Migration? The United States

  by Aviva Chomsky

  Joe Biden's pledge to pay attention to the conditions in Central America that are driving migration is a good start, but policy needs to be based in a recognition that those conditions have been created by the economic and military influence of the United States. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  6/28/2021
  

  Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s #Pride Tweet Conceals a Violent History

  by Jessica Ordaz and Alejandra Portillos

  "ICE’s message, that immigration enforcement and LGBTQ equality can be compatible, is dangerous because it conceals a violent history of immigration enforcement that has targeted and harmed LGBTQ people in the name of policing borders."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/11/2021
  

  As Immigration Politics Changed, So Did "In the Heights"

  by A. K. Sandoval-Strausz

  The film release of Lin-Manuel Miranda's "In the Heights" reflects the way the show has evolved in response to the shifting politics of immigration and nativism in the United States. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  6/17/2021
  

  There’s No LGBTQ Pride Without Immigrants

  by Julio Capó, Jr.

  Today's LGBTQ movement must recall its roots in the defense of marginalized groups against state power. Today, LGBTQ immigrants including the undocumented are among the most vulnerable. 

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• 6/20/2021
  

  Should Immigration Courts Operate under the Attorney General? History Says this is an Accident that Should be Undone

  by Alison Peck

  Franklin Roosevelt was pushed fear of a Nazi fifth column and big business's hostility toward foreign-born labor leaders to shift immigration courts from the Department of Labor to the Department of Justice, where they act as an extension of law enforcement. Legislation to make them independent is long overdue.