historian of refuge//migration//belonging in the US. Some hats: assistant prof @UCCS + @abusablepast coeditor + @MigrationCollab member
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A historical take on the United States’ failure to follow through on its claims to being a place of refuge—and how people have pushed back by making sanctuary spaces and seeking asylum, past and present
The global refugee regime does more to protect the right of nation-states to enforce their borders than it does to protect refugees.
Evan Taparata (@etaparata) and Rachel Buff (@rachelidatweets) explore the myth of American refuge:
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I'm learning so much from this--essential reading for anyone interested in histories of campus policing and abolitionist organizing. Thanks @lucien_baskin for organizing the forum and contributing to @abusablepast!
We’re excited to share our latest forum organized by @lucien_baskin on campus policing and abolitionist organizing. Check it out and share widely! radicalhistoryreview.org/abu…
Looking forward to being in conversation with such an amazing and inspiring group of scholars!
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Today, @MigrationCollab members launched #MiSCTalks, a series of conversations aimed at contextualizing ongoing immigration policy. The first talk, moderated by @elliottyoungpdx, is on Haiti, featuring @MonicaMnzMtz, @Carl_Lindskoog, and @YaelSchacher.
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Essential reading from @prof_erikalee, @irpinaingiro, and @IHirsi
What has happened to immigrants in the US during the pandemic?
As part of our immigration series with @MigrationCollab, @irpinaingiro @prof_erikalee, and @IHirsi explore how the virus has aided Trump-era migration policy:
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“Any effort to transform or even abolish the punitive regime of displacement and border enforcement would best look to the long history and current iterations of asylum practiced by those continuously displaced.”— @rachelidatweets and @etaparata
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The essay is part of a new @PublicBooks series, “From ‘Crisis’ to Futurity”—edited by fellow @MigrationCollab members @gerry_cadava, @ANaomiPaik, and Catherine S. Ramírez—that aims to spark conversation & action toward ending U.S. border policing
Check out all the essays here, including contributions from @elliottyoungpdx, @Carl_Lindskoog, @MonicaMnzMtz, @karl_jacoby, and Lynn Stephen publicbooks.org/from-crisis-…
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See this powerful, sweeping history of refuge/asylum in the United States--with an eye on the present, and future. By @rachelidatweets and @etaparata, both members of the @MigrationCollab. It's the 4th essay this week from @PublicBooks' immigration series.
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Solidarity with every contingent academic spending their summer ‘break’ waiting for someone else to make a decision about whether or not you’ll be employed in the fall. That university admins can ignore that they hold people’s actual lives in their hands is exhausting & enraging.
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Migration Scholar Collaborative (MiSC) is a collective of scholars and researchers fighting to decriminalize migration.
And, friends, we now have a website. You can find our recent Op-Eds & a full archive of our annotated Executive Orders + Memos here: migrationcollab.umn.edu/
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Plain and simple, we need a system that does not treat immigrants and refugees like criminals.
#Immigration #DecriminalizeMigration #AbolishICE
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"Anti-immigration hard-liners have gotten the history wrong" @SandovalStrausz writes in @madebyhistory,"They have smeared legalization as “amnesty” to conjure up images of lawlessness and border crisis when...it is restrictionist policies that have fomented humanitarian crisis."
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🔥🔥 Event alert: "History in Real Time: Undocumented Organizing," organized by the National Museum of American History, on F 2/26 at 12pm EST, with @GaribaldoValdez. Register here: eventbrite.com/e/history-in-…
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Fresh Off the Press: MiSC's annotated guide to #Biden's Executive Order on #climatechange & #migration. Commentary by Laura Briggs(@LjbriggsLaura ), Maria Cristina Garcia (@ithacamcg ), Mae Ngai, Yael Schacher (@YaelSchacher), & Evan Taparata (@etaparata)
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What does the death of Rush Limbaugh mean to his legions of followers and conservative politics? Scholar of the American Right @ajbauer wrote about his own experience growing up listening to Rush in a new #counterobituary up now @abusablepast radicalhistoryreview.org/abu…
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On February 19, 1942, #EO9066 authorized the incarceration of people of Japanese ancestry during WWII. On this #DayofRemembrance we consider the enduring histories of removal, family separation,& incarceration—& their entanglement with US nation-building
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