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Radical History Review (2021) 2021 (140): 175–185.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Jessica Ordaz Abstract This article explores the intersection between migrant detention and HIV/AIDS from the 1980s to the present. “AIDS Knows No Borders” centers histories of exclusion, detention, and deportation. The first part discusses immigration policy that made AIDS screening mandatory...
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in Portable and Precarious: Life and Spectacle in China’s Construction Camps
> Radical History Review
Published: 01 October 2018
Figure 6. Although rural migrant workers are often depicted as nameless and faceless in Chinese public discourse, they are also seen as a potential source of activism and unrest. Unsurprisingly, many construction companies use open-air cinema as a means to distract their workers, preventing them
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Published: 01 January 2023
Figure 1. A visualization of Jonathan’s journey, a return migrant living in coastal Ghana who experienced stowaway and deportation via Greece, France, and the Ivory Coast in an attempt to emigrate when life as a fisherman was no longer profitable. Artwork by Monica Curca of Activate Labs.
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Published: 01 January 2023
Figure 4. The Rainbow 17 Trans/Gay Migrant Caravan in Nogales, Mexico, in 2017. Jamila Hammami.
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in Freedom to Move, Freedom to Stay, Freedom to Return: A Transnational Roundtable on Sanctuary Activism
> Radical History Review
Published: 01 October 2019
Figure 2. Alarm Phone informational flier for migrants. Courtesy the Alarm Phone.
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Radical History Review (2009) 2009 (104): 103–125.
Published: 01 May 2009
...John Corbally In 1948, as citizens of Birmingham and London attempted to recover from the destructive effects of World War Two, they were perhaps unaware that another barrage was about to be unleashed upon them, this time in the shape of migrants rather than bombs. As commonwealth and Irish...
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Radical History Review (2012) 2012 (113): 81–98.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Rebecca M. Schreiber Sanctuary City/Ciudad Santuario, 1989–2009 was a collaboration between artist Sergio De La Torre and a group of student artists that was exhibited in a gallery in San Francisco's Mission District. The exhibit focused on issues of safety and security for Latino migrants...
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Radical History Review (2014) 2014 (120): 75–93.
Published: 01 October 2014
...Melissa Autumn White Drawing on interviews with self-identified LGBTQ migrants, lawyers and immigration consultants conducted in Toronto in 2008–09 and 2013, this article explores the affective economies of queer migration governance in the transnational Canadian context. With a specific focus...
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (145): 147–164.
Published: 01 January 2023
...Figure 1. A visualization of Jonathan’s journey, a return migrant living in coastal Ghana who experienced stowaway and deportation via Greece, France, and the Ivory Coast in an attempt to emigrate when life as a fisherman was no longer profitable. Artwork by Monica Curca of Activate Labs. ...
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Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (131): 146–149.
Published: 01 May 2018
...Mingwei Huang The story of Chinese capital and migration in South Africa is one of contradictions — of state-driven capital flows and South-South diplomacy, and of Chinese entrepreneurial migrants and their reliance on precarious African migrant labor. Toward illustrating the contradictory facets...
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Radical History Review (2019) 2019 (135): 138–159.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Figure 2. Alarm Phone informational flier for migrants. Courtesy the Alarm Phone. ...
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Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (132): 126–143.
Published: 01 October 2018
...Erica Toffoli Abstract This article traces photography’s double-edged role in mediating capitalism’s relationship with dependent laborers. It analyzes five photo-narratives published in the 1950s in the United States focusing on Mexican migrants working in the country as part of the bracero program...
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Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (132): 173–179.
Published: 01 October 2018
...Figure 6. Although rural migrant workers are often depicted as nameless and faceless in Chinese public discourse, they are also seen as a potential source of activism and unrest. Unsurprisingly, many construction companies use open-air cinema as a means to distract their workers, preventing them...
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Radical History Review (2011) 2011 (110): 109–126.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Donna R. Gabaccia; Jeffrey M. Pilcher This article examines the modernization of food retailing and the governance of urban space through a connected comparison of southern Italian migrants to New York City and Mexicans living in San Antonio, Texas. Street foods were common and restaurants scarce...
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Radical History Review (2013) 2013 (115): 115–141.
Published: 01 January 2013
... to an ad hoc refugee camp to an institutionalized immigration detention center, or more precisely a jail. This site's transformation underscores a Cold War shift from fear of a Caribbean-based nuclear attack to fear of an invasion of undocumented and undesirable Caribbean migrants. In addition, this paper...
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Radical History Review (2013) 2013 (115): 142–168.
Published: 01 January 2013
... as they relate to Haitian migrants. © 2013 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2013 Carceral Quarantine at Guantánamo
Legacies of US Imprisonment of Haitian Refugees,
1991 – 1994
A. Naomi Paik
Although the defendants euphemistically refer to its Guantánamo operation...
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Radical History Review (2017) 2017 (128): 173–198.
Published: 01 May 2017
... of respectability could privilege Puerto Ricans vis-à-vis Mexican American agricultural migrants in rural Michigan. Eileen J. Findlay is professor of history at American University. Her most recent publication on the history of Puerto Rico and its diaspora is We Are Left without a Father Here: Masculinity...
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Radical History Review (2019) 2019 (135): 1–13.
Published: 01 October 2019
.... Like each contribution to this special issue, the introduction challenges readers to reconsider the meanings and possibilities of sanctuary movements across time and place. It raises contexts and themes that are investigated in the issue’s contributions on the struggles of migrant communities...
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Radical History Review (2019) 2019 (135): 119–137.
Published: 01 October 2019
... approximate their entitlement to subsidized housing and assert their rights. For many Eritrean refugee occupiers in Rome, it is the Habesha community itself that provides the most reliable form of care, shelter, and protection, such that migrant-occupied housing projects (squats) act as sites of sanctuary...
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Radical History Review (2019) 2019 (135): 14–42.
Published: 01 October 2019
... and practice. It argues that the UNHCR Convention created a distinction between refugees and migrants that met challenges from sanctuary activists responding to the depredations of the US-backed “dirty wars” in Central America during the 1980s. The sanctuary movement contested this distinction, as did...
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