The SSRC's first-ever research committee was formed in response to the restrictive immigration laws of the 1920s. A century later, as enforcement and detention expand and public scrutiny of federal immigration operations increases, this issue of Items & Issues gathers social science research on immigration and its connections to labor, race, foreign policy, surveillance, and more.
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When I think of Mexican migration, I think of a powerful metaphor and its sediments: tierra. Land. Earth. Soil. Subsoil. Dirt. Dust. Especially in the…
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This article explores the bureaucratic mechanisms of exclusion of Latinas in the Texas–Mexico border region from coverage under Medicaid for Pregnant Women, a safety net…
An examination of the US refugee resettlement program shows that its administrative pipelines create path dependent imbalances in the distribution of scarce resettlement spaces.
This essay in American Historical Review explores the inter-American origins of the Bracero Program (1942–64), a bilateral agreement to regulate labor migration between the United…