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Iehs: Expert Witness Database at the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies
This article focuses on the need for expert witnesses which is growing as immigration judges are requiring more and more evidence to back claims made by asylum seekers. The Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS) at the University...
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Iehs: Carl Lindskoog, "Immigration Detention: A Selective Bibliography"
This bibliography supplements an essay in the Summer 2019 issue of the Immigration and Ethnic History Newsletter. This list shows, scholars in an array of disciplines have shaped the historiography of immigration detention. It includes...
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Iehs: Asher Lubotzky, We Become the Scape Goat: African Voices at Indiana Univ.
This article focuses on Indiana University's (IU) transformation in terms of its foreign student population. From 1950 to 1977, IU transformed itself from an "All-American school" into an international hub. It provides two short stories...
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Iehs: Evan Turiano, Teaching Fiction in Immigration History
This article focuses on using fiction to teach immigration history. Including fiction like Atticus Lish's 2015 novel, "Preparation for the Next Life" can meaningfully enrich a history seminar. A critical analysis of the novel introduces...
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Iehs: Melanie Simone Lorenz, "Promoting Immigration in 19th Century America"
This blog focuses on the U.S.'s need for immigration in the 19th and early 20th century to satisfy particular labor needs and increase investments.
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Iehs: Julie Weise, "2016: The Year Nativism Conquered the South"
This article focuses on South's change of heart toward undocumented immigrants from Mexico especially regarding their votes during the 1916 Presidential election of the anti-immigration Trump.
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Iehs: Jessica Lee, Did Immigrants Cheer a National Tragedy? Rumors Become Policy
This article focuses on immigrants and their reactions to national tragedy such as the assassination of President McKinley in 1901 and the rumored reaction of immigrants in New Jersey after the 9/11 attack. The point is that rumors can...
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Iehs: Stacy D. Fahrenthold, "Teaching Migrant and Refugee Histories"
This article focuses on the difficulty of trying to teach a course titled "My Migrants and Refugees in the Middle East" in light of President Trump's ban on migration from some Middle East countries.
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Iehs: Marlene Epp, "Narrating the Canadian Mosaic: Immigration and Ethnicity"
This article focuses on Canada's efforts to create a series of booklets about the immigration for each ethnic group in Canada. Thus far they have completed 34 booklets. They have 200 different ethnic groups in Canada.
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Iehs: Krystyn Moon, "Scottish White Ethnic Revivalism in Alexandria, Va"
This article focuses on some traditional white events such as Scottish men wearing a kilt and playing bagpipes are now considered racist by the American south as they believe it is connected to the Confederacy. It also discusses events...
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Iehs: Katherine S. Carper, "The Immigrant Waterfront"
This article focuses on the "Water Street Revival," a short-lived (July-October 1868) religious reform effort, which began after journalist Oliver Dyer published a "Packard's Monthly" article identifying John Allen, the owner of a...
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Iehs: Nicholas Trajano Molnar, "On the Eve of Immigration Restriction"
This article explores the 1920s immigration and social policies of the outsider "law and order" candidate Leonard Wood and the lessons that can be drawn from his candidacy for our time. Wood gave a popular voice to an immigration...
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Iehs: Adam Mendelsohn, "No Business Like the Clothing Business: The Rag Race"
This article focuses on why the Jews who migrated to the US after WWII became more prosperous than those who settled in England. It discusses many factors, including the clothing industry and timing.
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Iehs: Jo Ann Lo Savio, Educated Professionals: Thai Women in Transnational Perspec
This article focuses on Thai women and the need to change their stereotype of "as passive and exotic, or worse as defeated, abused casualties of modernity." It discusses how Thai women are "not passive recipients of history; they were...