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Insane Aliens: The Incarceration of Mentally Ill Immigrants in the United States and Mexico, 1880s-1940

21st September 2018 21/09/18
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How were aliens constructed as mentally ill and incarcerated by doctors and immigration authorities in the US and Mexico in the early twentieth century?

Alien Detention Across the Americas

25th September 2016 25/09/16
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In the United States, federal detention of immigrants began in the early 1880s to enforce the government’s first national immigration laws against Chinese laborers and people with contagious diseases and mental illnesses. Today, almost half a million aliens are detained each year in the United States, making up the fastest growing part of the prison population.

Migrant Detention: From McNeil Island to Mexico

1st June 2015 1/06/15
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In the 1880s, just after Chinese Exclusion, scores of Chinese were held at McNeil Island Prison until US courts ruled that they could be deported back to China in the early 1890s. This was the beginning of the creation of a mass incarceration system for aliens which today holds upwards of 340,000 migrants in jail in the United States.

The Great War 100 Years Later: The College, the Country, and the World

1st June 2015 1/06/15
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Migrant Detentions in the US and Mexico: The Rise of a Transnational Migrant Policing Regime

11th August 2014 11/08/14
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The US and Mexico jail more than half a million migrants each year. This project explores the history of migrant detentions in Mexico and the collaboration between the US and Mexican governments to create a transnational migrant policing regime from the late nineteenth century through the 1960s.

The War Beyond the West: Rethinking the Great War in Austria-Hungary and the Balkans

23rd April 2014 23/04/14
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First, how does consideration of Austria-Hungary and the Balkans change our understandings of World War I? These geographic areas have long been overshadowed in a field of scholarship dominated by work on the Western front (Britain, France Germany). Second, how did the home front populations in these areas react and respond to the extraordinary strains of everyday life during Europe’s first “total war”?