Articles in Race tagged with Immigration

Tobias Hübinette

Race and Sweden’s Fascist Turn

The recent electoral success of a party with Nazi origins must be understood as part of the long history of white Swedes’ desire for racial homogeneity.

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

Unlearning Our Settler Colonial Tongues

On language and belonging.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

The United States Is Not “a Nation of Immigrants”

Celebrations of multiculturalism obscure the country’s settler colonial history—and the role that immigrants play in perpetuating it.

Ryan Fontanilla

Immigration Enforcement and the Afterlife of the Slave Ship

Coast Guard techniques for blocking Haitian asylum seekers have their roots in the slave trade. Understanding these connections can help us disentangle immigration policy from white nationalism.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

What White Supremacists Know

The violent theft of land and capital is at the core of the U.S. experiment: the U.S. military got its start in the wars against Native Americans.

Robert L. Tsai

The Origins of Birthright Citizenship

The Fourteenth Amendment was shaped by freed blacks’ insistence that everyone born in the United States deserved full citizenship.

Stephen Kantrowitz

Refuge for Fugitives

We can learn from the surprising coalition of people who sheltered and rescued escaped slaves.

Elizabeth Cullen Dunn

The Failure of Refugee Camps

Refugee camps, intended to be temporary, host people for an average of 12 years.

Claude S. Fischer

Family Farms vs. Americanism

Below the surface–and sometimes above it–a lot of today’s debates around immigration reform are about cultural assimilation.

David Bacon

Europe’s Deadly Border

Migrants are dying as they cross the Mediterranean. Is there a better way?

With photographs by David Bacon.