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Maddalena Marinari, Ph. D.
@irpinaingiro.bsky.social
Historian. Author of Unwanted (@UNC_Press). Current President of @IEHS.
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Are you interested in the history of the sanctuary movement and/or of Chicago?

Check out my article in Middle West Review about the rise of the movement in and out of the city.

You can access and read it for free, below.

www.academia.edu/95259933/Pol...
Politicized Refuge: Chicago and the Transformation of the Sanctuary Movement
Politicized Refuge: Chicago and the Transformation of the Sanctuary Movement
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November 24, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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New publication from IEHS member Harvey Strum:

“Maine's Aid to Ireland during the Great Hunger,” Journal of New England History 82, no. 2 (Spring 2025): 80-107.

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Strum, Harvey. Maine's Aid to Ireland During the Great Hunger | NEJH
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November 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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New publication by IEHS member Samuel J. Klee:

“Drawing Barbed Wire: The Tule Lake Scrapbook of 1942,” Environmental History 30, no. 4 (October, 2025): 729-745.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Drawing Barbed Wire: The Tule Lake Scrapbook of 1942 | Environmental History: Vol 30, No 4
Abstract In December 1942, teachers and Japanese Americans at the Tule Lake Relocation Center created a scrapbook for Elmer Shirrell, the camp’s outgoing director. The scrapbook reveals Tule Lake teac...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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***New article by IEHS member @kangborderlaw.bsky.social ***

“Creating a ‘Mass Production Technique’: Anti-Mexican Racism and the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952,” Journal of American Constitutional History 3, no. 3 (2025): 545-613.

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Creating a “Mass Production Technique”: Anti-Mexican Racism and the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952
by S. Deborah Kang New archival research shines a light on the anti-Mexican animus that motivated the authors and agents of the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952 and reveals that racism was a feature, rathe...
jach.law.wisc.edu
November 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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***We're on YouTube!***

Please visit the IEHS YouTube channel to watch clips from our past virtual events, including book talks, panel discussions, and more. These clips are great teaching tools!

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society
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November 18, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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***Share Your News with Us***

The IEHS monthly digest comes out on the 27th of every month. Please email us at [email protected] if you have any announcements about events, grants, job ads, or public speaking engagements that you would like us to share with the IEHS community.
November 18, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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“Multiple prominent Protestant leaders say that two pastors close to Trump [Paula White-Cain and Mark Burns] have given their approval of the plan.”
Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays
The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Our next bath of 3D printed whistles are in process, and we have requests to supply multiple large trainings over the next 2 weeks.

We’ll also hand out hundreds of whistles (for free!) in heavily immigrant communities this week.
November 18, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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***Write for the IEHS Blog***

Not From Here, the official blog of the IEHS, seeks submissions from scholars writing about the histories of immigration, race, and ethnicity.

For more information:

iehs.org/submit-a-blo...
Submit a blog post
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November 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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New blog post on the IEHS blog, Not From Here: Authors on Authors: Kevin Kenny & Maddalena Marinari with Hardeep Dhillon

@kevinkenny.bsky.social @irpinaingiro.bsky.social

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Authors on Authors: Kevin Kenny & Maddalena Marinari
Kevin Kenny and Maddalena Marinari, Rituals of Migration: Irish and Italians on the Move (New York University Press, 2025). In Rituals of Migration, editors Kevin Kenny and Maddalena Marinari—with …
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November 14, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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***TODAY***

The @ihrc-umn.bsky.social invites you to the Hidden Histories of Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the United States webinar on Wednesday, November 12 from 4:00 to 5:15 CST.

Register: z.umn.edu/HiddenHistories.
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Hidden Histories of Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the United States. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the web...
European migrants are often depicted as the nation’s iconic legal immigrants, yet Europeans did enter and remain in the US without proper authorization. In this webinar, our experts will tell the stor...
z.umn.edu
November 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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***Book Reviewers for the JAEH Needed***

If you are interested in reviewing books for the Journal of American Ethnic History, please complete the volunteer reviewer form or send your contact information and areas of expertise to [email protected]

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Review Books for the JAEH
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November 12, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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NEW DATA: ICE's number of average daily arrests in Texas have more than doubled under Trump — leading to one in four arrests across the country.

Arrests of people who have not been convicted of a crime have also increased.

This is plain cruelty. The ICE detention machine must be shut down.
Data shows how immigration crackdown plays out in Texas
ICE agents are arresting more immigrants on the streets and at routine check-ins than under President Biden. But most of them don't have criminal convictions despite pledges to pursue “the worst of the worst.”
www.texastribune.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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***Tomorrow***

The recently formed Migration Scholars Solidarity and Resistance Network urges all migration scholars around the globe to organize Teach Ins-Outs around the theme “Stop the War on Migrants; Migration is a Social Good” on November 11, 2025.

More: [email protected].
November 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Reliable, transparent information about country conditions has become harder to access — yet it remains essential for fair asylum decisions and informed migration policy.

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November 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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***Funding Opportunity***

The Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies is pleased to announce the 2026-2027 Research and Project Grant call for applications.

Deadline: 3/31/26.

botstiberbiaas.org/grants/resea...
Research & Project Grants | The Botstiber Institute for Austrian-American Studies
The BIAAS seeks grant proposals for research or projects aimed at promoting an understanding of the historic relationship between the United States and Austria, including Habsburg Austria.
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November 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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In case you missed it:

There is a new special issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History ( @illinoispress.bsky.social ) guest edited by @migrantherstory.bsky.social and @irpinaingiro.bsky.social on "Immigration and Citizenship."

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Volume 44 Issue 4 | Journal of American Ethnic History | Scholarly Publishing Collective
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November 6, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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***A week from today***

The IHRC invites you to the Hidden Histories of Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the United States webinar on Wednesday, November 12 from 4:00 to 5:15 CST.

Register at z.umn.edu/HiddenHistories.
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Hidden Histories of Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the United States. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the web...
European migrants are often depicted as the nation’s iconic legal immigrants, yet Europeans did enter and remain in the US without proper authorization. In this webinar, our experts will tell the stor...
z.umn.edu
November 5, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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TODAY, November 5th

Philip K. Hitti Memorial Fund Lecture at the University of Minnesota

Possible Histories: Arab Americans and the Queer Ecology of Peddling with Charlotte Karem Albrecht for the inaugural Philip K. Hitti Memorial Fund lecture at UMN and online. Register at z.umn.edu/HittiLecture
IHRC Welcomes Charlotte Karem Albrecht for the Inaugural Philip K. Hitti Memorial Fund Lecture
Wednesday, November 5, 2025 Reception 5-6pm Lecture 6-7:30pm (hybrid) Weisman Art Museum 333 E River Rd, Minneapolis, MN 55455 The Immigration History Research Center invites you to our inaugural Phi...
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November 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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You'll be shocked to know that it was a Spanish Immersion Early Learning Center

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VIDEO: Day care teacher detained by ICE agents on Chicago’s North Side
A day care teacher was taken into ICE custody Wednesday morning at the Rayito de Sol Spanish Immersion Early Learning Center in Chicago’s North Center neighborhood.
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November 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Global Teach Ins-Outs about Migration

The Migration Scholars Solidarity and Resistance Network urges migration scholars to organize Teach Ins-Outs around the theme “Stop the War on Migrants; Migration is a Social Good” on November 11, 2025.

Info? [email protected].
November 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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***Attention graduate students***

Apply to the George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award!

IEHS invites submissions for two awards of $3,500 each (up from $1,000) to help graduate students with their dissertations on U.S. immigration, emigration, or ethnic history.

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George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award
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November 3, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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It’s November, and like Mariah it’s time for my 248th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week to be defrosted. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️

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#ScholarSunday Thread 248 (11/2/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
It’s November, and like Mariah it’s time for my 248th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week to be defrosted. Add ...
blackwhiteandread.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

They’ve had their necks kneeled on.

They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.

At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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November 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM