Borderline Americans

Benton-Cohen, Katherine

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“…Amidst rumors that the "foreign element" was under the influence of "Prussians," organizations like the Citizen's Protective League and the Workman's Loyalty League joined with the town Sheriff to seize striking workers at the Bisbee mines. 76 Sherriff Wheeler, once opposed by mine owners precisely because of his reputation for fairness and honesty, played a critical role in the deportation and deputized men in Bisbee, something he said "had they not convinced him that there was German influence behind the strike he would have died rather than deputize men to take sides against labor." 77 Sherrif Wheeler deputized men from Bisbee and Douglas, creating a posse of about 1,500 men.…”

Section: Southwest: Labor and Exclusionmentioning

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States of Immigration: Making Immigration Policy from Above and Below, 1875–1924

Jacobson

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2022

J. Policy Hist.

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For nearly 150 years, the Supreme Court has denounced jurisdictional ambiguities in immigration policy, regularly striking down state laws as unconstitutional intrusions on the federal government’s “broad, undoubted power.” Most scholarship on the historical evolution of US immigration policy has followed suit, rendering invisible the role of state governments and federalism in immigration policy during the crucial, transformative decades of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era. This article redresses these silences by spotlighting the aggressive state policy activism and critical intergovernmental negotiations over how to control immigration and noncitizens from the 1870s to the 1920s. Focusing on two older, eastern seaboard states—Maryland and Virginia—and two newer, southwestern states—Arizona and New Mexico—these historical case studies show how subnational immigration initiatives were fueled by distinctive local and regional labor need and racial landscapes. This article also identifies and illuminates distinct forms of autonomous, interdependent, insistent, and validated activism by states in immigration federalism.

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States of Immigration: Making Immigration Policy from Above and Below, 1875–1924

Jacobson

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2022

J. Policy Hist.

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“…Initially, blurry borders of interracial social, political, and economic cooperation and even marriage gave way to strictures that equated white with American and Hispanic with outsider. 9 Thus, the US-Mexico boundary's early porosity closed up in a large part because of the hardening of regional ethnic divisions. Attention to non-national borders has similarly marked recent colonial borderlands scholarship.…”

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Construction and Contestation: Toward a Unifying Methodology for Borderlands History

Orsi

2014

History Compass

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Borderlands history is a burgeoning field that churns out dozens of important monographs every year. Despite their individual insights, these works collectively lack conceptual glue to hold them together as a field. Using US‐Mexican border historiography as a case study, this article synthesizes recent scholarship to extract an emerging but as yet not fully articulated methodology that unites much of the field's scholarship of the last decade. Regardless of their individual time, place, or subject matter emphases, the works considered here share common starting questions that inquire what borders are present in any historical context and what their origins and consequences are. The keystone of the methodology is a dialect through which borderlands historians understand borders to be constructed, contested, reconstructed, and ultimately unfinished and unstable. Borderlands historians extend their analysis to include the mental categories with which people have historically made sense of their worlds, and they employ innovative narrative structures that integrate large and small spatial and geographical scales into coherent stories. As a research field seeking to explain the origins and evolution of national and other borders, borderlands history explores one of the most important developments of modern history. As a teaching field that introduces students to the history of boundary making and crossing, borderlands history helps prepare them for twenty‐first‐century world citizenship.

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Latinos in Arizona: Demographic Context in the SB 1070 Era

McConnell

2013

Latino Politics and Arizona’s Immigration Law SB 1070

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Borderline Americans

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States of Immigration: Making Immigration Policy from Above and Below, 1875–1924

States of Immigration: Making Immigration Policy from Above and Below, 1875–1924

Construction and Contestation: Toward a Unifying Methodology for Borderlands History

Latinos in Arizona: Demographic Context in the SB 1070 Era

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