The White House’s controversial Aliens.gov portal dehumanises undocumented non-US citizens by blurring the boundaries between the term “illegal aliens”, or unauthorised residents, and extraterrestrials.
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Historically, farm work in the United States has been carefully constructed to appear natural, including the racism and labor exploitation that characterizes it, a scholar writes.
Afghans who have lost US work permits and protections from deportation fear persecution by the Taliban if they return to Afghanistan.
Since the earliest days of the nation, any person born on US soil is a US citizen. A new Supreme Court ruling limits judges’ ability to block Trump’s order.
Why few Native Americans are celebrating the centennial of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924.
Biden’s executive action will shield approximately 500,000 undocumented spouses of US citizens, as well as 50,000 children, from deportation and give them the legal right to stay in the US.
At the core of sovereign citizen beliefs is the denial of the legitimacy of the government. They do not believe they must obey any laws, nor that they can be held to account for lawbreaking.
Every citizen has the right to vote. But various characteristics and legal requirements affect how likely any one person is to actually cast a ballot.
A series of Supreme Court cases based on racist language and reasoning still govern the lives of 4 million Americans.
Polish-born Holocaust survivor paved the way for atheists to refuse pledge to God in citizenship oath. But discrimination against nonreligious Americans remains.
Simulating some experiences of immigrant life can help nonimmigrants learn to understand, and even trust, people from other countries more.
If upheld, a federal court ruling would solidify birthright citizenship as the law of the land, and overturn more than a century of federal refusal to grant American Samoans citizenship status.
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Richter Professor Emerita of Political Science, Swarthmore College
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Professor of Political Science and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University at Albany, State University of New York
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Associate Professor of Public Policy, Politics, and Education, University of Virginia
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Assistant Professor of Journalism, University of Arkansas
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Professor of Social Work and Criminology, Chatham University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Brigham Young University
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Research Fellow, Center for Racial Justice, Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
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USC Associates Chair in Social Sciences; Professor of Political Science and Gender and Sexuality Studies, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Associate Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies, San José State University
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Assistant Professor of Migration, Washington University in St. Louis
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Professor of History, University of Puget Sound
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Michigan State University
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Doctor in English Linguistics specialized in Political Discourse Analysis, Université Paris Cité
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Associate Professor of Political Science and Legal Studies, Suffolk University