We're looking forward to seeing you at #OAH24 ! Check out everything Immigration and Ethnic History Society has planned for the conference in this thread:

A very effective summary of the significance of the Civil War and Reconstruction for immigration, especially the simultaneous development of legal protection for immigrants and exclusion policy, by Kevin Kenny Journal of CW Era

In today’s #Muster , Kevin Kenny explains how the federal government transformed immigration policy in the United States from a sub-national to a national policy for regulating the admission, exclusion, and removal of foreigners. Read more here: wp.me/p1ZRcM-18P.

Thank you Journal of CW Era #Muster for publishing my piece on antebellum state laws regulating free Black people and immigrants ... & how Reconstruction both eliminated the worst abuses by the states and paved the way for Chinese exclusion at the federal level. journalofthecivilwarera.org/2024/04/how-th…

The Organization of American Historians Annual Conference on American History is right around the corner and we can't wait to see all of our members and friends in New Orleans. Check out the lineup of meet-ups, panels, roundtables, and seminars we've got planned for #OAH24 !

April is Hmong Heritage Month! Read about Hmong farm cooperatives and refugee resettlement in 1980s Minnesota in Cecilia M. Tsu (History UC Davis)'s Journal of American Ethnic History article in Vol. 36, Iss. 3. cc: Immigration and Ethnic History Society scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/artic…

Texas Is Trying to Upend Who Controls U.S. Immigration Policy, by Kevin Kenny

'The federal government has long controlled immigration law—and for very good reason. Changing that could have catastrophic consequences, both for immigrants and for American foreign policy.'

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Mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII devastated SF's Japantown - what was once a rich, thriving neighborhood for Japanese Americans

For the first time, we can visualize how disastrous a 1942 order was on the community San Francisco Chronicle

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Immigration federalism in 20 posts by Kevin Kenny, from antebellum anti-pauper and anti-free Black laws to Chinese Exclusion to California Prop 187 to Arizona SB1070 to today!

Really looking forward to this event! There will be so many amazing scholars talking about the 1924 Immigration Act. Register if you can!

Thread: some historical background to today’s crisis over US immigration authority. 🧵1/17

The Molly Maguires were a secret organization of Irish coal miners in the late 1800s, they may also have been murderers.

Kevin Kenny talks to TheSparkWITF about the group's history, here: oxford.ly/48UGZWm

It's #Womenhistorymonth and we celebrate the work of Carly Goodman, her book Dream Land: America's Immigration Lottery in An Ange of Restriction (@UNC_Press) and we thank her support to women historians #slaveryarchive uncpress.org/book/978146967…

🧵 A historian’s thread on why leaving immigration policy to the states was and remains a bad idea. Immigration and Ethnic History Society Migration Scholar Collaborative

An amazing work by a UC Berkeley History student!

‘They’ll figure that I’m a queer’: UC Berkeley student brings to light stories of LGBTQ Japanese Americans incarcerated during WWII lib.berkeley.edu/about/news/era…

This sounds like an incredible resource!

Vol. 43, Iss. 2 of Journal of American Ethnic History includes a reading of articles in Progressive Era magazines by Lauren Braun-Strumfels (@cedarcrestcolle) to show how the press tried to remake Italian migrants into citizen farmworkers in the American South. cc: Immigration and Ethnic History Society scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/artic…

In case you missed it, you can view a recording of our recent webinar hosted in collaboration with Immigration and Ethnic History Society 'The Immigration Act of 1924: Rethinking its Origins and Impact 100 Years Later' on our youtube channel: youtube.com/watch?v=L-hA5A…

Here's an exciting new initiative for early career scholars around the world: ASLH Early Career (Virtual) Legal History Workshop. International applicants are encouraged to apply! Applications due: 30 June 2024.
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