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During Jim Crow segregation, political leaders used domestic military power to preserve the interests of racial authoritarians.
Foreign terrorism accounts for a miniscule portion of violence in the United States.
History shows that building the trust of immigrants is an effective tactic in combating local crime and making entire communities safer.
There’s no one set legal definition for sanctuary cities and other places with these policies. But they often limit local coordination with federal immigration authorities.
Philadelphia was the birthplace of Bread and Freedom, a weekly anarchist paper published by Jewish immigrants who felt their peers in New York were too moderate.
The high court ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a Maryland man, Kilmar Abrego García, to the United States.
Can both sides legitimately say they won a Supreme Court victory?
The loss of TPS doesn’t necessarily mean all of these people will immediately leave the country. Some will seek legal or illegal means to stay.
A recent report looks at the ongoing disparities racialized immigrant women face in the Canadian labour market.
Canada and other OECD nations are missing an opportunity by failing to fully utilize immigrant talent.
A survey of hundreds of Floridians found that nearly two-thirds of non-US citizens and one-third of US citizens hesitated to seek medical care.
Create a moral panic. Blame it on certain people. Commence monitoring. Deploy droves of security agents. Detain or remove the targets. Sound familiar?
Even before the lead actress’s racist tweets were unearthed, the film was sagging under the weight of the director’s flippant approach to Mexican language and culture.
In 2023, approximately 51 million foreign-born people lived in the United States. Almost three-quarters were in the country legally. Half of the rest had some legal protection from deportation.
Trump isn’t alone in using tariffs, travel bans and sanctions to make countries play ball on deportations. But the other side of migration diplomacy can be incentives for countries willing to take on refugees.
Global north policies are increasingly nasty but these countries are ageing fast – without migrant labour, they face economic hardship.
Hateful language used to demonize particular groups of people had been used long before the era of Donald Trump, including by the Nazis.
Brady Corbet’s epic is a hymn to one man’s tenacity and vision that explores the interconnected fates of the architect and his buildings.
The Alien Enemies Act, first approved in the late 1700s, was last used during World War II to identify particular foreign nationals living in the US.
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Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Davis
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Visiting professor, Harvard University
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Director, Centre for Refugee Studies & Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor of International Business, University of Victoria
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PhD candidate, Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto
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Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Research associate, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, Canada
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Professor of Sociology and Chair, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Economics, University of Michigan
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Professor of political socialization, Department of Education, Practice and Society, UCL Institute of Education, UCL
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John Rennie Short is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor Emeritus of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Assistant Professor, Research Methods, School of Social Sciences, Heriot-Watt University
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Associate Professor, Institute for Culture and Society & School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University
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Assistant Professor of Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute