Maddalena Marinari, Ph. D. (@irpinaingiro)

***Online Discussion presented by @ihrc-umn.bsky.social : The Founding of the United States and Immigration History***

Tue, Mar 31, 2026 | 3:30 - 5 PM

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We just had another one of our wonderful book talks!

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04.03.2026 21:22 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

I can see why!

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Really excited about that the next @iehs.bsky.social online book event tomorrow! Join us if you can.

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Underground...stations, if you will, perhaps connected to a means of transportation that became popular in the 19th century.

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Really excited about that the next @iehs.bsky.social online book event tomorrow! Join us if you can.

03.03.2026 22:28 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

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03.03.2026 17:24 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

From Deportees to Coerced Workers: Managing Labor and Migration Within Mexico After the Bracero Program Abstract. In 1971, agents from Mexico's secret intelligence agency began to report that hundreds to thousands of Mexican men recently detained in the United States were being taken every night from Me...

New article from IEHS member Laura Gutierrez:

"From Deportees to Coerced Workers: Managing Labor and Migration Within Mexico After the Bracero Program,” in the Hispanic American Historical Review

read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article...

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Call for Proposals Immigrants in Challenging Times Edited by Maddalena Marinari and Maria Cristina Garcia A Call for Papers Since the early republic, advocacy has played a crucial role in shaping the contours of state ...

***Call for Proposals for New Edited Volume***

Maddalena Marinari and Maria Cristina Garcia are inviting IEHS members to submit a paper proposal for an edited anthology, tentatively titled Immigrants in Challenging Times, by March 15, 2026.

More info and to submit: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

02.03.2026 23:50 👍 7 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 0

Today should be your 38th birthday.. When you lose your son you lose more than a child you lose a piece of your heart and your joy. Life is forever altered, and nothing can ever fill that space. Yet in my soul, he remains, my precious boy, forever loved. His laughter, his smile, and his love are woven into who I am. My love for him will never fade. Yor are my pride and my joy - you've made a change that cannot be broken..

Alex's mom on his 38th birthday.

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#ScholarSunday Thread 265 (3/1/26) – Black and White and Read All Over March has come in with more administration lyin’, which means all the more reason to share my 265th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the last w...

March has come in with more administration lyin’, which means all the more reason to share my 265th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share as widely as you can, & solidarity, all! 🗃️ +

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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Book Launch: Hidden Histories. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Book Launch: Hidden Histories. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

***Hybrid Book Launch***

Hidden Histories of Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the United States (UIP 2025)

WHEN: Thursday, March 26, 2026
4:00 - 5:30pm

WHERE: Taliaferro Hall, 2110 (The Berlin Room) or over Zoom.

REGISTER: go.umd.edu/hiddenhistories

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***Online Virtual Book Event***

Please join our spring Online IEHS Book Series at 3:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday, March 4! Marla A. Ramirez and Reem Bailony will present their books. The event will be moderated by Mark Tseng-Putterman.

More info and register: iehs.org/event/online...

27.02.2026 17:57 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

911 calls capture kids burning with fever, struggling to breathe at ICE detention center EMS crews were called to the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas at least 11 times since September for children in medical distress, records show.

NEW: We obtained 911 audio from the Texas detention center housing hundreds of immigrant kids and their parents.

Since mid-September, EMS crews have been dispatched to Dilley at least 11 times to treat children in medical distress.

Burning fevers. Low oxygen. Seizures. A broken leg.

My report:

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Search

There have been a LOT of amicus briefs filed on both sides of the birthright citizenship issue for Trump v Barbara slated for oral argument on April 1 and decision probably in June. You can find all the briefs here: www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?...

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society

***IEHS YouTube Channel***

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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📚Also reviewed in Journal of American Ethnic History Vol. 45, No. 2:
- "Emergency in Transit" @ucpress.bsky.social
- "Undoing Slavery" @pennpress.bsky.social
- "Horace M. Kallen in the Heartland" @univpressofkansas.bsky.social
cc: @iehs.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss...

26.02.2026 15:03 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1

The Washington Post's description of the bodycam video of his arrest last year, and the translation of Mr. Shah Alam's comments, is gutting. Remember, he was entirely blind in one eye and could only see three feet in the other, and he spoke virtually no English.

He spent a year in jail for this.

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Zohran Mamdani’s New York and the Evolution of American Muslim Civic Life Zohran Mamdani’s rise from the margins to the office of mayor marks a historic reshaping of New York City’s political landscape. He is the first Muslim and South Asian mayor and one of the youngest…

New post in the IEHS blog, Not From Here:

Zohran Mamdani’s New York and the Evolution of American Muslim Civic Life by Aleezay Khaliq

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26.02.2026 04:59 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

***Online Virtual Book Event***

Please join our spring Online IEHS Book Series at 3:00 p.m. EST on Wednesday, March 4! Marla A. Ramirez and Reem Bailony will present their books. The event will be moderated by Mark Tseng-Putterman.

More info and register: iehs.org/event/online...

26.02.2026 04:54 👍 8 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0

Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."

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MAH: Symposium on Birthright Citizenship Modern American History 8:3 (November 2025) includes an open-access symposium on birthright citizenship: The Historical Paths to and from Wong Kim Ark Hardeep Dhillon, Beth Lew-Williams, Maddalena Marinari, Heather Ruth Lee, Anna Pegler-Gordon Birthright citizenship, as a common law principle, was a cornerstone of the American Republic at its founding. Like many “universal” rights at the time, it was presumed to apply to white people, routinely denied to enslaved people, and deeply contested for free people of color. After the Civil War, amid the effort to rebuild a fractured Union and answer the decades-long Black freedom struggle, Congress sought to affirm and extend the principle of birthright citizenship in the U.S. Constitution. In 1868, Congress recognized the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, extending citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil. The language of the Fourteenth Amendment was clear: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” This included—as the congressional record reveals—the children of immigrants regardless of race, nationality, or desirability of their parents. The Meaning of Alienage for Wong Kim Ark Beth Lew-Williams When Congress debated the wording of the Fourteenth Amendment, Chinese immigration was not at the forefront of legislators’ minds. They were primarily focused on granting citizenship to newly emancipated Black people while continuing to deny it to Native people living outside of America’s jurisdiction. Their ultimate choice of words reflected these desires. The first sentence of the amendment proclaimed, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” The Struggle for America’s Ballot Box and the Making of Wong Kim Ark Hardeep Dhillon On July 4, 1895, U.S. flags fluttered alongside red Chinese lanterns outside 753 Clay Street, the newly claimed San Francisco headquarters of the Native Sons of the Golden State (NSGS).1 Inside, NSGS president Chun Dick rose to speak. Standing at five feet two inches with short-cropped black hair, he shared that at least fifty men in NSGS were birthright citizens and ready to vote, and that more Chinese American voters would follow.2 Chun Dick, members of the Chinese community in attendance, their guests, and journalists in the room reflected a new political reality: Chinese American children, born in the United States, were coming of age and claiming a place in U.S. politics. Chinese immigrants constituted the largest racial minority in the state, and while many were ineligible to vote, their children who could were organizing to do so. Therefore, this moment on July 4 in San Francisco marked a turning point. The Right to Return: Chinese Merchants, the Scott Act, and Legal Knowledge in an Era of Exclusion Heather Ruth Lee On October 7, 1888, approximately 176 Chinese passengers arrived in San Francisco aboard the S.S. Belgic. They carried laborer return certificates—documents that, until just days earlier, had guaranteed their right to reenter. But on October 1, President Grover Cleveland had signed the Scott Act into law, abruptly voiding those certificates. Officially, the act barred only Chinese laborers from returning. In practice, however, Chinese merchants and U.S.-born children of Chinese parents also traveled with laborer return certificates. They, too, would now be denied readmission. Documenting Birthright Citizenship under Chinese Exclusion Anna Pegler-Gordon Following the Wong Kim Ark decision in 1898, ethnic Chinese, other Asians, and almost all individuals born on U.S. soil secured the right to jus soli birthright citizenship. They could not, however, secure recognition of their citizenship without documentation, the key that linked birth to birthright. At a time when birth registration was not common, ethnic Chinese were able to establish U.S. citizenship in two main ways: through an order by a U.S. District Court or certification by U.S. immigration authorities.1 However, this documentation did not settle questions of the holder’s identity, immigration or citizenship status. Immigration inspectors generally doubted testimony given in these cases and believed that it was used to obtain fraudulent documentation of lawful immigration or citizenship status. A Tale of Two Families: Birthright Citizenship and Family Reunification for Chinese Migrants in 1925 Maddalena Marinari On July 11, 1924, the Lincoln reached Angel Island, the desolate and remote location of the infamous immigration station in California. Aboard the ship were nine Chinese wives, hopeful that they would soon reunite with their spouses who had preceded them to the United States. Until then, despite harsh immigration laws, many Chinese women had been admitted to the country because they were married to noncitizen merchants or to American citizens. Building on coverture principles that a man’s care and comfort were so important that his wife’s status should follow his, Chinese husbands had often argued successfully that their right to reunite with their families took precedence over existing immigration laws, which excluded Chinese immigrants because of their race. It was these laws, they contended, that had forced many Chinese migrants into transnational marriages in the first place. Despite these precedents, the immigration officers who inspected the women on the Lincoln rejected them all, regardless of their age, education, and class. --Dan Ernst

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Spring 2026 Online Books Series Visit the post for more.

I am really looking forward to the next @iehs.bsky.social online book event (March 4, 3pm ET). Reem Bailony and Marla A. Ramirez, moderated by Mark Tseng-Putterman! iehs.org/event/online...

23.02.2026 18:19 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Volume 45 Issue 1 | Journal of American Ethnic History | Scholarly Publishing Collective

In case you missed it...

Check out the Fall 2025 issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History ( @illinoispress.bsky.social ):

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Awards Overview Visit the post for more.

***Apply to IEHS Awards***

The IEHS offers a number of prestigious awards that recognize excellence in scholarship in the fields of immigration and ethnic history.

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23.02.2026 17:37 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

Opinion | The Bible Tells Us to Love Immigrants

"Xenophobia is, then, spiritually speaking, an illness, a failure to see people as God does, to treat them as God demands they be treated." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/o...

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What was immigration like before ICE? YouTube video by Vox

"How American immigration became law enforcement": a 15-minute @vox.com video explainer. "The rights that were won for Americans in the past are vulnerable. We have to fight to retain them." @iehs.bsky.social @unlawfulentries.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Special Saturday Triad: What I Saw at the Battle of Minneapolis The national media has moved on. Minnesota is still under siege.

"You now live in a country where volunteers deliver babies at home, in secret, off the books, because mothers fear that if they go to the hospital, they will be abducted by masked, armed agents of the state while giving birth. This is not a hypothetical."

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An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

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