Yii-Jan Lin is Associate Professor of New Testament at Yale Divinity School. This interview is based on her new book, Immigration and Apocalypse: How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration (Yale University Press, 2024). JF: What led you to write Immigration and […]
Immigration History
Trump’s immigration policy has a long history
Here is historian Ana Raquel Minian at The New York Times: Donald Trump has long explicitly challenged a foundational myth of American identity: the idea of the United States as a nation of immigrants that welcomes the world’s “huddled masses […]
Daniel Okrent on the Immigration Act of 1924
Last month, The Arena ran a piece by historian Jay Green (who is Current‘s Managing Editor) on the 100th anniversary of the Johnson Reed Act. Today, I want to call your attention to the World Socialist Web Site’s interview with […]
The Author’s Corner with Mark Richard
Mark Richard is Professor of History and Canadian Studies at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. This interview is based on his new book, Catholics Across Borders: Canadian Immigrants in the North Country, Plattsburgh, New York, 1850-1950 (State […]
The Author’s Corner with Kevin Kenny
Kevin Kenny is Professor of History and Glucksman Professor in Irish Studies at New York University. This interview is based on his new book, The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States (Oxford […]
How turn-of-the-20th-century Italian immigrants were tricked into debt peonage
Writer Brad Ricca tells the story of the Italian immigrants of Sunnyside Plantation in Arkansas. Here is a taste of his piece at The Washington Post: In the early 1900s, a small travel agency in Greenville, Miss., began sending representatives […]