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Hardeep Dhillon @migrantherstory.bsky.social · Sep 4

Typo: residences

Hardeep Dhillon @migrantherstory.bsky.social · Sep 4

Ninety-eight years ago, a large mob descended on the residents of Asian immigrants in Bellingham, WA, and drove them out of town.

The legacy of law, justice, and empire among instances of immigrant violence still matters.

Sharing some research here.

Hardeep Dhillon @migrantherstory.bsky.social · Jun 16

publication day.

the history of racial violence against immigrants in the early 20th c. remains as important to history as it does to our present

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With many thanks to those who supported me on this journey.

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · Sep 3

***The Immigration and Ethnic History Society is looking for a new editor for the Journal of American Ethnic History***

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · Aug 25

Have you read this new special issue of our publication, the Journal of American Ethnic History, yet?

It's on "Immigration and Citizenship" and edited by @irpinaingiro.bsky.social and @migrantherstory.bsky.social .

@illinoispress.bsky.social

scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss...

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University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social · Aug 21

✨Special Issue ✨ of Journal of American Ethnic History (Vol. 44, No. 4) "Immigration and Citizenship," guest edited by Hardeep Dhillon @migrantherstory.bsky.social and Maddalena Marinari @irpinaingiro.bsky.social is now available! @iehs.bsky.social
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Hardeep Dhillon @migrantherstory.bsky.social · Aug 9

This article originated in the spirit of honoring women in the discipline of history and centering women’s history. In this light, my sister has been one of my greatest sources of strength and inspiration. It is with the deepest affection that I dedicate this article to her. <3

Hardeep Dhillon @migrantherstory.bsky.social · Aug 9

Many thanks to Benjamin and Gary and the scholars who helped me strengthen my scholarship.

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Hardeep Dhillon @migrantherstory.bsky.social · Aug 9

Drawing on women’s writing, family oral histories, and legal records, this article reveals how a patchwork of state and federal laws systematically undermined the rights and protections of U.S. citizenship for children even as court victories affirmed birthright citizenship.

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Hardeep Dhillon @migrantherstory.bsky.social · Aug 9

As a result, U.S.-born children lived their childhoods at the intersection of xenophobic campaigns pledging to disenfranchise them and their families.

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Hardeep Dhillon @migrantherstory.bsky.social · Aug 9

Legislators, private citizens, health officials, judges, and immigration authorities advocated for racial limits on birthright citizenship by invoking parents' legal status.

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Hardeep Dhillon @migrantherstory.bsky.social · Aug 9

PUB DAY:
Nativists attacked the extension of birthright citizenship for the children of all immigrants from the moment the Fourteenth Amendment was introduced. These attacks continued over the twentieth century...
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Family Ties in the Age of Exclusion: A Microhistory of Immigration, Childhood, and U.S. Citizenship

Abstract. Drawing on women’s writing, family oral histories, and legal records, this article reveals how a patchwork of state and federal laws systematical

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Hardeep Dhillon @migrantherstory.bsky.social · Jul 2

<3

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Hardeep Dhillon @migrantherstory.bsky.social · Jul 2

Vibes.

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Hardeep Dhillon @migrantherstory.bsky.social · Jul 1

The special issue concludes with an epilogue by the brilliant Mae Ngai.

We're grateful for this collaboration. Many thanks to the eight peer reviewers and Marisa Wieneke for being an excellent production editor!

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Hardeep Dhillon @migrantherstory.bsky.social · Jul 1

The scholars elucidate the history of disability and children, Japanese American internment, and settler migration and the Lakota (among other topics). Each article is superb.

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Hardeep Dhillon @migrantherstory.bsky.social · Jul 1

The introduction is open access and the issue includes fantastic articles by Michael Jin, Yukako Otori, and Lila Teeters Knolle (among others).

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Hardeep Dhillon @migrantherstory.bsky.social · Jul 1

The use of citizenship to order power in the United States isn't new. It has a long and troubling history.

Today is publication day for a new scholarship on this topic.
Maddalena Marinari and I --with five superb historians-- share.

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Volume 44 Issue 4 | Journal of American Ethnic History | Scholarly Publishing Collective

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Maddalena Marinari, Ph. D. @irpinaingiro.bsky.social · Jul 1

Incredibly excited to share that the special issue on Citizenship and Migration that @migrantherstory.bsky.social and I coedited for the Journal of American and Ethnic History is out: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss.... The introduction we wrote is open access

Volume 44 Issue 4 | Journal of American Ethnic History | Scholarly Publishing Collective

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Hardeep Dhillon @migrantherstory.bsky.social · Jun 24

@carceralhistory.bsky.social, thank you for this shoutout 📣.
the biggest honor is knowing the work finds a home with readers. 🙏

Carceral History newsletter @carceralhistory.bsky.social · Jun 23

today I’m featuring new work from @migrantherstory.bsky.social, @ejwestuk.bsky.social, @briannanofil.bsky.social, Anthony Grasso, and Anthony Gregory carceral-history.ghost.io/fresh-picks-...

fresh picks: con men, anti-Indian policing, and more

Here's what I'm reading this week: Hardeep Dhillon's new article in the Journal of American History shows how "anti-immigrant violence was a constitutive component of legal violence" in the American ...

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Hardeep Dhillon @migrantherstory.bsky.social · Jun 17

Thank you for being you, always.

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Hardeep Dhillon @migrantherstory.bsky.social · Jun 16

publication day.

the history of racial violence against immigrants in the early 20th c. remains as important to history as it does to our present

academic.oup.com/jah/article/...

With many thanks to those who supported me on this journey.

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Hardeep Dhillon @migrantherstory.bsky.social · May 23

"It was the specific fear of Chinese Americans’ enfranchisement and of the bestowal of other legal rights upon them that ultimately precipitated the drive to curtail birthright citizenship more than a century ago."

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Hardeep Dhillon @migrantherstory.bsky.social · May 23

Why meticulous research in the archives is ALWAYS necessary.
"Last year, Hardeep Dhillon, a historian at the University of Pennsylvania, shared some research with me that is instructive in this current moment...
Dhillon...argues that the Wise letter casts the Wong Kim Ark case in a new light..."

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · May 20

The research of IEHS board member, @migrantherstory.bsky.social , was featured in the New Yorker this morning:

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Who Gets to Be an American?

Since the earliest days of the Republic, American citizenship has been contested, subject to the anti-democratic impulses of racism, suspicion, and paranoia.

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social · May 15

🧵To mark the publication of "Rituals of Migration" @kevinkenny.bsky.social & @irpinaingiro.bsky.social 👏 to the Bluesky contributors @hidehirota.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @appalachianphilly.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social nyupress.org/blog/2025/05...

Ten Rituals of Migration by Kevin Kenny and Maddalena Marinari - NYU Press

What do migrants do, feel, think, eat, and carry with them—on the eve of departure, in transit, and when returning home? Rituals of Migration offers snapshots of Italian and Irish migrants... READ MOR...

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