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Recent Scholarship

Immigration and Migration

 

Bhalla, Vibha, “‘We Wanted to End Disparities at Work’: Physician Migration, Racialization, and a Struggle for Equality,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 29 (Spring 2010), 40–78.

Chacón, Jennifer M., “Civil Rights, Immigrants’ Rights, Human Rights: Lessons from the Life and Works of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,” New York University Review of Law and Social Change, 32 (no. 4, 2008), 465–84.

Efford, Alison Clark, “Race Should Be as Unimportant as Ancestry: German Radicals and African American Citizenship in the Missouri Constitution of 1865,” Missouri Historical Review, 104 (April 2010), 138–58. Heavily illustrated.

Fernández, Lilia, “Of Immigrants and Migrants: Mexican and Puerto Rican Labor Migration in Comparative Perspective, 1942–1964,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 29 (Spring 2010), 6–39.

Galusca, Roxana, “From Fictive Ability to National Identity: Disability, Medical Inspection, and Public Health Regulations on Ellis Island,” Cultural Critique, 72 (Spring 2009), 137–63.

Gingrich, Kurt, “‘That Will Make Carolina Powerful and Flourishing’: Scots and Huguenots in Carolina in the 1680s,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, 110 (Jan.–April 2009), 6–34.

Goodfriend, Joyce D., “Foreigners in a Dutch Colonial City,” New York History, 90 (Fall 2009), 241–69.

Guerrero, Vladimir, “Caste, Race, and Class in Spanish California,” Southern California Quarterly, 92 (Spring 2010), 1–18.

Guglielmo, Jennifer, “Transnational Feminism’s Radical Past: Lessons from Italian Immigrant Women Anarchists in Industrializing America,” Journal of Women’s History, 22 (Spring 2010), 10–33.

Hardwick, Susan W., “Fuzzy Transnationals? American Settlement, Identity, and Belonging in Canada,” American Review of Canadian Studies, 40 (Spring 2010), 86–103.

Kim, Youn-Jin, “Imingwa guiwha, grigo Mikukeui jeongcheseong” (Immigration, naturalization, and American national identity), Mikuksa Yeongu/Korean Journal of American History, 29 (May 2009), 63–95. In Korean.

Molina, Natalia, “‘In a Race All Their Own’: The Quest to Make Mexicans Ineligible for U.S. Citizenship,” Pacific Historical Review, 79 (May 2010), 167–201.

Radzilowski, John, “Born a Gypsy: Secondary Migration and Spatial Change in Two Polish Immigrant Communities, 1880–1925,” Polish American Studies, 66 (Autumn 2009), 73–85.

Tanaka, Kei, “Marriage as Citizen’s Privilege: Japanese Picture Marriage and American Social Justice,” Nanzan Review of American Studies (Nagoya), 31 (2009), 131–50.

Zeidel, Robert, “Pursuit of ‘Human Brotherhood’: Rockefeller Philanthropy and American Immigration, 1900–1933,” New York History, 90 (Winter–Spring 2009), 85–106.

 

Liu, Lisong, “Mobility, Community, and Identity: Chinese Student/Professional Migration to the United States since 1978 and Transnational Citizenship” (University of Minnesota, 2009). Order No. DA3366894.

Miceli, Stephen R., “Industrialization and Immigration: Labor at the River’s Bend” (University of Toledo, 2009). Order No. DA3361954.

Nguyen, Phuong Tran, “The People of the Fall: Refugee Nationalism in Little Saigon, 1975–2005” (University of Southern California, 2009). Order No. DA3368613.

Shinozuka, Jeannie Natsuko, “From a ‘Contagious’ to ‘Poisonous Yellow Peril’? Japanese and Japanese Americans in Public Health and Agriculture, 1890s–1950” (University of Minnesota, 2009). Order No. DA3360396.

Thompson, Maris Rachel, “‘They Used German when They Didn’t Want Us to Understand’: Narratives of Immigration, Ethnicity, and Language Loss in Southwestern Illinois” (University of California, Berkeley, 2008). Order No. DA3353278.

Torok, John Edward, “‘Chinese Investigations’: Immigration Policy Enforcement in Cold War New York Chinatown, 1946–1965” (University of California, Berkeley, 2008). Order No. DA3353282.

Urban, Andrew Theodore, “An Intimate World: Race, Migration, and Chinese and Irish Domestic Servants in the United States, 1850–1920” (University of Minnesota, 2009). Order No. DA3360403.

Ureña, Leslie Jennifer, “Lewis Hine at Ellis Island: The Photography of Immigration and Race, 1904–1926” (Northwestern University, 2009). Order No. DA3355743.

 

Fraga, Luis Ricardo, et al., Latino Lives in America: Making It Home. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2010. x, 212 pp. Cloth, $74.50, isbn 978-1-4399-0048-2. Paper, $26.95, isbn 978-1-4399-0049-9.)

Vigdor, Jacob L., From Immigrants to Americans: The Rise and Fall of Fitting In. (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2009. xiv, 217 pp. $34.95, isbn 978-1-4422-0136-1.)

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