In late July 1909, headlines in several New York City newspapers expressed curious excitement about a group of recently arrived, and swiftly deported, immigrants. “Gypsies Fight to Resist Deportation,” read the Evening Mail. “Wield Babies as War Clubs,” exclaimed the…
The 2016 presidential election foregrounded public debates about immigration, national security, and belonging in ways that scholars have struggled to understand. The hardline stances on immigration emanating from the new presidential administration—from Executive Orders aimed at suspending migration from designated…
