by Immigration and Ethnic History Society | Feb 1, 2021 | Authors on Authors
Christopher Capozzola’s Bound by War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America’s First Pacific Century provides a stunning analysis of U.S.-Philippine 20th century relations, and it does so through the prism of the military and migration. This book...
by Immigration and Ethnic History Society | Feb 1, 2021 | Authors on Authors, Blog
Jana Lipman’s In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Repatriates is a breathtaking contribution to immigration and ethnic history. Just behind the forgotten news headlines of the 1970s—which turned Vietnamese refugees into passive victims and...
by Immigration and Ethnic History Society | Oct 12, 2020 | Authors on Authors
After painstakingly building a wall of laws to exclude Asian immigrants in the late nineteenth century, how and why did the U.S. repeal exclusion of Asians in the mid-twentieth century? That’s the question Jane Hong unpacks with great skill and nuance in Opening the...
by Immigration and Ethnic History Society | Oct 11, 2020 | Authors on Authors, Blog
In this elegantly written book, Lucy Salyer uses the 1867 Fenian Revolt and the international crisis it provoked to explore a little-known episode in the history of expatriation. With great skill and nuance, Salyer traces the diplomatic and legal crisis that ensued....