Immigration Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/immigration/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:10:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Immigration Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/immigration/ 32 32 “The Basic Liberal Narrative Is Gone”: Immigrant Rights and Abolition with Silky Shah https://www.publicbooks.org/the-basic-liberal-narrative-is-gone-immigrant-rights-and-abolition-with-silky-shah/ Thu, 20 Mar 2025 15:00:52 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59155 “A singular focus on conditions, rather than the violence of immigration detention itself, just lent itself to expansion.”

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]]> “Origine Asiatique”: The Anticolonial and Communist Chinese That Flocked to Paris https://www.publicbooks.org/origine-asiatique-the-anticolonial-communist-chinese-that-flocked-to-paris/ Thu, 06 Mar 2025 16:00:23 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=59089 Asian migration has been kept out of most official histories of Paris, but walking in the quartiers chics and populaires/mixtes uncovers a portrait of the lives and history.

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]]> B-Sides: Anthony Veasna So’s “Afterparties” https://www.publicbooks.org/b-sides-anthony-veasna-sos-afterparties/ Thu, 16 Jan 2025 16:00:31 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=58742 In “Afterparties,” Anthony Veasna So explores the American dream’s false promise of a profitable, progressive futurity.

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]]> Borderlessness Must Be Our Future https://www.publicbooks.org/borderlessness-must-be-our-future/ Tue, 17 Sep 2024 15:00:12 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=57277 Since the 1970s, nations have built at least 63 border walls and 2,000 concentration camps euphemistically called “immigrant detention centers.”

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]]> Finding Sanctuary in Art https://www.publicbooks.org/finding-sanctuary-in-art/ Thu, 06 Jun 2024 15:00:24 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56582 A single mural in San Francisco’s Mission District honors Latinx victims of police violence both at the US border and in US cities.

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]]> Containment and Care in the Sonoran Desert https://www.publicbooks.org/containment-and-care-in-the-sonoran-desert/ Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:00:55 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56398 Prevention through deterrence did not prevent or deter migration. Instead, it corralled migration, hid it from view, and made it deadly.

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]]> “This Is Not for the Policy People”: Ninaj Raoul on Making Change for Migrant Lives https://www.publicbooks.org/this-is-not-for-the-policy-people-ninaj-raoul-on-making-change-for-migrant-lives/ Fri, 31 May 2024 15:00:34 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56502 “I’d never imagine that in 2024 we would have tents of refugees in Brooklyn. … We’ve totally gone backward.”

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]]> The Border Patrol and Asylum Exclusion https://www.publicbooks.org/the-border-patrol-and-asylum-exclusion/ Thu, 30 May 2024 15:00:09 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56319 Border Patrol has regularly abused its authority and mistreated immigrants and asylum seekers in countless ways. Yet its role as the frontline force in asylum exclusion has only grown.

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]]> America’s Medicalized Borders: Past, Present, and Possible Future https://www.publicbooks.org/americas-medicalized-borders-past-present-and-possible-future/ Wed, 29 May 2024 15:00:07 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56170 “Only by building new models of collective health that are driven by solidarity, rather than fear, do we stand a chance of defeating today’s medical nativists.”

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]]> The 100-Year-Old Racist Law that Broke America’s Immigration System https://www.publicbooks.org/the-100-year-old-racist-law-that-broke-americas-immigration-system/ Tue, 28 May 2024 15:00:02 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56436 The Chinese and Asiatic exclusion laws of the 19th and early 20th century paved the way for the Immigration Act of 1924.

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