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Tag: Immigration

Pranab Bardhan

Financial Times commentator Martin Wolf says "it's the economy, stupid." The truth is more complicated.

Eli Friedman

Protests in China are shining a light not only on the country’s draconian population management but restrictions on workers everywhere.

Harsha Walia

The problem isn't new; it's the bordered logic of global apartheid itself.

Tobias Hübinette

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.

Matt Nadel
Angel Francisco Breard was executed by Virginia in contempt of a treaty that required his home country to be notified when he was first charged. What difference might it have made if the U.S. had obeyed the law?
Eleanor Davey
Twenty years of cruel anti-immigrant policy have left thousands of asylum seekers in limbo, detained in offshore prisons or in mainland commercial hotels.
Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
On language and belonging.
Jeffrey S. Kahn

The Haitian migrant crisis at the southern border is only the latest stage in a decades-long legacy of brutal mistreatment by the U.S. government, much of which unfolded at Cuban detention facilities.

Paul Linden-Retek

The UN Convention on Refugees gives form to a humanitarian ideal, but states still judge what counts as harm and who deserves protection.

Joseph Margulies

Far from a relic of the past, September 11 continues to normalize state-sanctioned barbarity.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

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

Alexander Betts
East African countries host seven times more refugees than we do. Their policies look beyond their borders. So should ours.
Sierra Pettengill, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Watch our release of documentary short The Rifleman, which examines how NRA head Harlon Carter fused gun rights, immigration enforcement, and white supremacy. Then read an interview with filmmaker Sierra Pettengill and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.

Ruth Milkman
Non-college-educated U.S.-born workers have every reason to be enraged by declining wages and living standards, but more restrictive immigration policies won’t solve these problems.
Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian

Noam Chomsky on his new book, the Capitol coup attempt, 2020 unrest, and the prospects for progress under Biden.

Ryan Fontanilla
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.
Lauren Carasik
The pandemic risks turning immigration detention into a death sentence for many, yet the Trump administration has rejected calls for mass humanitarian release, and continues to deport infectious detainees to Latin America.
Mark Nowak
When Celes Tisdale led poetry workshops at Attica State Prison, soon after the 1971 uprising, some of the prisoners were still recovering from gunshots. Their writings demonstrates the power of poetry to help oppressed people heal from trauma and organize their political thinking.
David Herd, Lytton Smith
An ancient pilgrimage route inspires a project of cooperative storytelling which pairs writers with detained immigrants, such as the Mexican horticulturalist in this story.
Stephanie DeGooyer
Amidst chants of “send her back,” it’s clear that we need a more just conception of citizenship—one that abolishes the distinction between “natural” and naturalized citizens.
Lauren Carasik

A leaked Department of Homeland Security database confirms what many suspected: the U.S. government is trying to punish and intimidate people advocating for immigrant rights.

Matthew Longo

We have surrendered the cherished value of “innocent until proven guilty” for the security logic that we are all “risky until proven safe.”

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

Marta Figlerowicz
A new anthology is dedicated to the scholar who saw nostalgia as a radical rebellion against modern ideas of time.
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Trump v. Hawaii is not about religion. It’s about the president’s unlimited power at the border.
Robert L. Tsai
Jeff Sessions is fond of citing the Bible to support the persecution of immigrants, in stark contrast to a long tradition of biblical interpretation.
Calvin TerBeek, Robert L. Tsai
We can’t fully appreciate the current anti-immigration moment without understanding the decades-long investment by right-wing movement politics.
Felicia Wong
Political lessons from the state of resistance.
Matthew Longo

It is an ever-widening surveillance zone that turns borderland citizens into guardians of the state.

Maytha Alhassen
Trump’s Muslim ban was not just an abberation: U.S. citizenship has long been predicated on whiteness as it was understood in 1790.
Joseph H. Carens

The moral right of states to apprehend and deport irregular migrants erodes with the passage of time.

Lauren Carasik

A recent conference made it clear: military and corporate interests will prevail.

Stephen Kantrowitz
We can learn from the surprising coalition of people who sheltered and rescued escaped slaves.
Pranab Bardhan
It's cultural resentment, not economic malaise.
Anke Hassel

Basic income is a seductive poison that would benefit the margins of society at the expense of the middle class and immigrants.

Valeria Luiselli

Following the 2014 immigration crisis, Valeria Luiselli began volunteering at a New York City immigration court. This is what she heard.

Alejandra Marchevsky, Alan A. Aja
Immigrants are not committing more crimes than in the past. Rather the definition of “criminal” has broadened significantly.
Adam Hosein

Stayed or not, Trump's ban highlights the need for strong immigrant rights.

Lauren Carasik

Public safety is precisely why sanctuary cities are a good idea.

Jeanne Theoharis, Amna A. Akbar

For too long we have acquiesced to Islamophobic government policies. The cost of our silence is now clear.

Paul Hockenos

Refugee scholars in Europe face tremendous obstacles. Now some universities are trying to change that.

Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Calling the nations subjected to the ban Muslim is sloppy, misguided, and dangerous.
Aziz Rana, John Bowen

Islamophobia is a shared project of the Democrat and Republican parties, long preceding the rise of white nationalism and Trump.

Joshua Cohen
A pluralistic democracy is built on debate, disagreement, and wakeful action. This forum begins the conversation.
Steve Healey
Daniel Borzutzky and Solmaz Sharif explore the poetics of war and exile, pushing the boundaries of a national literature.
Colin Dayan

Undocumented immigrants face horrible conditions in U.S. detention, with little legal recourse.

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