by Evan Taparata | May 17, 2016 | Blog, guest post
The following entry emerges from my preparations to write the foreword to the English translation of Fernando Saúl Alanís Enciso’s Que se queden allá. El gobierno de México y la repatriación de mexicanos de Estados Unidos 1934–1940 (English: Let them stay there: The... by Evan Taparata | Apr 15, 2016 | Blog, guest post
When we distinguish between immigrants and native-born Americans today, citizenship provides a firm dividing line. Everyone born within the national territory is a citizen of the United States (with the exception of the children of foreign diplomats). People born... by Evan Taparata | Apr 2, 2016 | Blog, guest post
I was walking down the avenue in Biyem-Assi, a neighborhood in Yaoundé, Cameroon’s capital, trying to avoid stepping into the sewer that edged the road or into the path of one of the many scrambling shared taxis that comprise public transit here. As a historian of... 
by Evan Taparata | Jan 25, 2016 | Blog, guest post
“The old English stock of the Bay State seems to have its power of assimilating other people taxed to the utmost,” lamented a writer for Boston’s Daily Globe in the winter of 1889. “We have thus rapidly developing among us,” added Egbert Smyth several years later, “an... by Evan Taparata | Jan 5, 2016 | Blog, guest post
Fueling anger against “illegal” immigrants is the outrage that they have not only broken U.S. laws by crossing national borders and working without permission, but also that they have cheated others by jumping ahead of their place in line. A commonly voiced criticism...