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Tag: Immigration

A new anthology is dedicated to the scholar who saw nostalgia as a radical rebellion against modern ideas of time.
Marta Figlerowicz
Trump v. Hawaii is not about religion. It’s about the president’s unlimited power at the border.
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

Jeff Sessions is fond of citing the Bible to support the persecution of immigrants, in stark contrast to a long tradition of biblical interpretation.

Robert L. Tsai

We can’t fully appreciate the current anti-immigration moment without understanding the decades-long investment by right-wing movement politics.

Calvin TerBeek, Robert L. Tsai
Political lessons from the state of resistance.
Felicia Wong

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

Matthew Longo

Trump’s Muslim ban was not just an aberration. U.S. citizenship has long been predicated on whiteness as it was understood in 1790.

Maytha Alhassen

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

Joseph H. Carens

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

Lauren Carasik

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

Stephen Kantrowitz
It's cultural resentment, not economic malaise.
Pranab Bardhan

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

Anke Hassel

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

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

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

Adam Hosein

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

Lauren Carasik

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

Jeanne Theoharis, Amna A. Akbar

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

Paul Hockenos
Calling the nations subjected to the ban Muslim is sloppy, misguided, and dangerous.
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

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

Aziz Rana, John Bowen

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A pluralistic democracy is built on debate, disagreement, and wakeful action. This forum begins the conversation.

Joshua Cohen
Daniel Borzutzky and Solmaz Sharif explore the poetics of war and exile, pushing the boundaries of a national literature.
Steve Healey

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

Colin Dayan

For many EU citizens in the UK, the Brexit vote means the end of home as they know it.

Andrea Mammone

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