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Category Archives: immigration
Throwbacklist Thursday: The Immigrant Songs
in american history, asian american studies, biography, immigration, latino studies, migration, women's history
Tagged immigration, Throwbacklist Thursday
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Pretty much every world religion and ethical system makes a virtue of offering succor to travelers, the rootless, and the persecuted. Immigration, the social-political system we’ve constructed around those ideas, plays a vital role in the narratives of many nations. … Continue reading
Release Party: Gendered Asylum
in gay/lesbian, gender studies, immigration, law, women's history
Tagged Gendered Asylum, migration, Sara L. McKinnon, sexuality, women's studies
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Women filing gender-based asylum claims long faced skepticism and outright rejection within the U.S. immigration system. Despite erratic progress, the United States still fails to recognize gender as an established category for experiencing persecution. Gender exists in a sort of … Continue reading
Release Party: A Century of Transnationalism
in immigration, world history
Tagged immigration studies, migration, Nancy L. Green, Roger Waldinger, transnationalism
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Immigrant transnationalism reminded scholars that migrants, in leaving home for a new life abroad, inevitably tie place of origin and destination together, scholars of transnationalism have also insisted that today’s cross-border connections are unprecedented. This collection of articles by sociologically … Continue reading
Release Party: Immigrant Identity and the Politics of Citizenship
in american history, eBooks, immigration
Tagged 2016 election, Common Threads, immigration, John Bukowczyk, journals
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The latest e-book in our trendsetting Common Threads series, Immigrant Identity and the Politics of Citizenship draws on decades of scholarship to provide the context for current discussions about immigration, a topic of national importance and without a doubt one of the flash points of … Continue reading
Q&A with Taste of the Nation author Camille Bégin
in american history, author commentary, authors, food, immigration, interviews
Tagged America Eats, Camille Bégin, Taste of the Nation
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Camille Bégin is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Sensory Studies at Concordia University in Montreal. She answered some questions about her book Taste of the Nation: The New Deal Search for America’s Food. Q: What … Continue reading
5 reasons to visit us at OAH
in american history, author events, authors, conferences, immigration, journals, labor history, military history, press events, women's history
Tagged Common Threads, Elizabeth Fones-Wolf, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jacob Remes, Ken Fones-Wolf, Roger Daniels, Stephen Meyer
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If you are headed to the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting in Providence, Rhode Island during April 7-9 there are a few things you’ll want to be on the lookout for courtesy of your friends at UIP. 1) Given … Continue reading
Q&A with Driven by Fear author Guenter Risse
in american history, author commentary, authors, immigration, public health
Tagged AIDS, Black Death, Driven by Fear, Guenter Risse, medicine, San Francisco, SARS
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Guenter B. Risse is a professor emeritus of the history of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He answered some questions about his book Driven by Fear: Epidemics and Isolation in San Francisco’s House of Pestilence. Q: What was the … Continue reading
Q&A with Immigrants against the State author Kenyon Zimmer
in american history, author commentary, authors, immigration, interviews, radical studies
Tagged anarchism, Immigrants against the State, Kenyon Zimmer
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Kenyon Zimmer is an assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington. He answered some questions about his book Immigrants against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America. Q: Is there a popular conceit that the immigrant anarchists … Continue reading
Not our first Zika
in american history, asian american studies, immigration
Tagged disease, Driven by Fear, Gunter Risse, history of emotion, Zika
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To judge when an emerging pathogen enters the historical record, we look to medical journals and the Centers for Disease Control. To judge when an emerging pathogen enters the zeitgiest, we look to panicked news reports and conspiracy theorists on … Continue reading
Throwbacklist Thursday
in immigration, migration
Tagged Janet W. Salaff, Mary H. Blewett, Michael Ugarte, Studies of World Migrations, Throwbacklist Thursday
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Migrations are in the news again. As happens when humanity goes through one of its giant spasms of violence, displacement follows. People tired of bombs, bullets, hunger, and the rest of a long list of horrors vote with their feet … Continue reading