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Maddalena Marinari, Ph. D.

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Historian. Author of Unwanted (@UNC_Press). Current President of @IEHS.

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 17h
***Register for our Fall Online Book Event*** Join us at 4:30 pm ET on 10/27 for our next online book event with @unlawfulentries.bsky.social and Mary E. Mendoza. Jonathan Cortez will moderate the discussion. iehs.org/event/online...
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Let's stop using anodyne labels like "the immigration debate" or "controversy over migrants" and start referring to things accurately. "Expelling children who, by law, are entitled to remain in the country" or "imprisoning toddlers in concentration camps" or "pogrom"
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What a lie. Some of these people are being imprisoned indefinitely in squalid condition in African prisons. Others report being beaten and arbitrarily deported in violation of international law back to their home countries, where they face persecution or torture.
The indefinite nature of their confinement has taken a severe toll. In October 2025, a Cuban man who was on the July flight went on a hunger strike for a month-until he started showing signs of organ failure —to protest the conditions of his detention, including his ongoing confinement and lack of access to legal counsel.
Terrified of being imprisoned in Eswatini forever, another man repeatedly told his attorney that the prison there never lets people go. One man told his attorney that he feels like a caged animal with no end in sight. The prison does not have air conditioning, making the hot, humid summer months especially uncomfortable for the men.
Food is insufficient, medication is scarce, and requests often go unmet or are belatedly met.
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Immigration and Ethnic History Society has a monthly email digest that comes out on the 27th of each month! Want something in the next IEHS monthly digest? Email digest@iehs.org
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
***IEHS on Social Media*** Be sure to follow and connect with the IEHS on social media if you have yet to do so! The IEHS is on Bluesky, Facebook, and Youtube. If there is anything in particular you’d like to see added to the IEHS social media channels, please reach out to social_media@iehs.org.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS *grants* Tennessee's request to vacate the stay of execution the Sixth Circuit had entered in the case of Christa Pike, clearing the way for her execution: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
***The Immigration and Ethnic History Society is on YouTube!*** Please visit the IEHS YouTube channel to watch clips from our past virtual events, including book talks, panel discussions, and more. These clips are great teaching tools! www.youtube.com/@iehs_org
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
***Videos of OAH-IEHS Joint Events Available*** The videos of the three-part OAH-IEHS webinar series are now available to stream anytime on the OAH YouTube channel. @oah.org www.youtube.com/@TheOAH/videos
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Organization of American Historians
The Organization of American Historians promotes excellence in the scholarship, teaching, and presentation of American history, and encourages wide discussion of historical questions and equitable tre...
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
***Letter-writing Zoom Event*** IEHS members are invited to join a Save Our National Archives Letter-writing Zoom Event on Wednesday, September 30 at 6 pm ET. RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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RSVP: Save Our National Archive
Please use this form to RSVP for the ALANA Save Our National Archive Letter Writing Zoom Event on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 6p EST. Agenda: 15 mins | Brief Introduction to Save Our National A...
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
***Immigration History Manuscript Workshop*** The @ihrc-umn.bsky.social at the University of Minnesota is now accepting applications for its annual Immigration History Manuscript Workshop. To have your manuscript considered for this workshop, please fill this out docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
***Conference on Illinois History, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum and Library*** The 28th Annual Conference highlights research into all aspects of Illinois history, culture, politics, geography, and archaeology. The conference will take place between October 1-2, 2026. Thread - 1/2
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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I so enjoyed my joint new book event with Gautham Rao that there is another one at the end of October. Deets for sign up soon, open to all since it's online. This one is hosted by the immigration historians and pairs my book with an intriguing one about pathogens + people at the SW border.
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New post in our Immigration and Ethnic History Society blog, Not from Here: "Towards a Digital Archive: Documenting the Island of Diego Garcia" by Kate Motluck iehs.org/towards-a-di...
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Towards a Digital Archive: Documenting the Island of Diego Garcia
The island of Diego Garcia is difficult place to get to know. This is in part a function of geography. The island sits close to the centre of the Indian Ocean, nearly 2,000km away from neighbouring…
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Have you checked out the Summer 2026 issue of the Journal of American History? @illinoispress.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss...
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
***Awards from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS)*** The IEHS offers a number of prestigious awards that recognize excellence in scholarship in the fields of immigration and ethnic history. iehs.org/awards/
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Awards Overview
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
***Upcoming: "Asian Exclusion and the Battle for Birthright Citizenship"*** This conference contextualizes efforts to restrict and strip birthright citizenship from the children of immigrants ineligible to naturalize within the context of Asian American history. www.huntington.org/event/asian-...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As I told @gregsargent.bsky.social, Congress should demand answers from those responsible for diverting taxpayer funding intended to protect people from persecution to some of the world’s worst authoritarians, for purposes which clearly violate human rights.
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Immigration History Research Center @ihrc-umn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Join us for a conversation with Sahra Noor, the author of Salt in the Snow: A Somali Immigrant Story. The event takes place on October 6, 2026, at 4:45 PM. This is a hybrid event. Information & registration: z.umn.edu/IHRCSahraNoor @umnnursing.bsky.social @umncla.bsky.social @ridgs.bsky.social
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The Organization of American Historians @oah.org · 22/09/2026
📢Congratulations to our new OAH Lecturers! 🎉 We are proud to announce this year’s group of U. S. historians who bring a wealth of knowledge and diverse historical perspectives to the OAH Lectureship Program roster. #OAHLecturer 👉 Meet the new speakers: ow.ly/I0L550ZQhGC
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
***Have you recently published something on immigration and/or ethnic history?*** Please email us at digest@iehs.org. We are happy to feature your scholarship in the monthly digest.
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Must read. And all of the Forbidden Stories on this topic to come. wapo.st/4dLG4wo
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How Trump turned a refugee bureau into a $410 million deportation operation
Inside the secret deals powering the president’s push to deport migrants to countries not their own.
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New book by IEHS member Jeffrey Louis Decker: Rebel Girl and the Godfather: New York City’s Italians and the Fight for Civil Rights sunypress.edu/Books/R/Rebe...
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New book by IEHS member Ruth Wasem: The Struggle for Fairness: Forging the Immigration Act of 1965 @degruyterbrill.bsky.social www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Down in Music City for my older son’s college Family Weekend, but y’all knew I’d still find a way to share my 294th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share widely, & enjoy, y’all! 🗃️ +
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#ScholarSunday Thread 294 (9/20/26) – Black and White and Read All Over
Down in Music City for my older son’s college Family Weekend, but y’all knew I’d still find a way to share my 294th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcomi...
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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Republican Governor Jim Pillen has been a champion of Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown. But at least 20 of his family farms employed undocumented immigrants, according to a new investigation by the Flatwater Free Press and The New York Times. youtu.be/5RZgrR1_7Dc?...
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This GOP governor said ‘illegal aliens’ have ‘invaded.’ His family farms EMPLOYED them, report finds
YouTube video by MS NOW
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
New book by Felice A. Bonadio: A. P. Giannini: Banker of America (University of California Press, 2026) www.ucpress.edu/books/a-p-gi...
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Public universities have led the way in creating popular ethnic & gender studies programs, which are now being destroyed by aggressively regressive politicians & administrators, not because students aren't interested in these subjects, but because they are. www.texastribune.org/2026/09/17/u...
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Majors related to race, gender cut at University of Texas
The University of Texas at Austin rejected a department’s plan to keep the majors, a decision that came without public knowledge, an interim department chair told faculty.
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Forthcoming book on the history of the sanctuary movement by IEHS members @elprofebarba.bsky.social and @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social: Sanctuary in America: How Activists Defied the Government and Defended Immigrants—And Why It Still Matters global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New book: Racist by Design: Two Centuries of U.S. Immigration Control by Kelly Lytle Hernández wwnorton.com/books/978132...
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Glucksman Ireland House NYU @gihnyu.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eric Foner donated one of his books to the National Library of Ireland with a dedication to "Irish men and women who fought against slavery.” Kevin Kenny explained how Foner's work transformed Irish-American historiography @irpinaingiro.bsky.social @hidehirota.bsky.social www.nli.ie/news-stories...
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A May Day Celebration for Eric Foner
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.
According to Mohamed, guards at Guantanamo have said they are being held there because that's what officials in Washington, DC, want. "There's no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison," he told me. "And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us... Washington...ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay."
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New book edited by IEHS members @elprofebarba.bsky.social and @smgonzalezwi.bsky.social : Sacred Refuge: New Histories of the Sanctuary Movement (New York University Press, 2026) nyupress.org/978147983370...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
One of the coolest things about people who don't have a lot of power taking a principled stand is it lays bare the complete cowardice of the ones who actually *do* have power when they fail to do even a fraction as much.
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
***Soliciting Members for Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS) Board*** The Nominations Committee invites all IEHS members to recommend colleagues for leadership positions in the organization. Thread - 1/3
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
***Share Your News with Us*** The Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS) monthly digest comes out on the 27th of every month. Please email us at digest@iehs.org if you have any announcements.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 15/09/2026
You may’ve heard of DHS and White House officials getting peppered with questions about a report of a parent getting detained by ICE at a school bus stop. Well, @joshuaeaton.bsky.social got video of the incident in question — which also appears to have taken place near a church.
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
***Are You A Member? Create an Expert Profile on the Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS) Website*** If you are an IEHS member, consider creating an expert profile on the IEHS webpage. You can set up your profile page by filling out here: iehs.org/expert-regis...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards. The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat.🧵
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
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Staff also reported that time spent in the small metal enclosures is closely monitored, and
detainees are not locked in, even though we observed locking mechanisms on the enclosures.
Figures 11 and 12. Small Metal Enclosures; Observed January 21, 2026

Underneath is a picture of a metal cage that is 4 feet 3 inches wide by 4 feet 3 inches long, and 7 feet 9 inches high. The cage itself is placed on a tiny spot of fake turf, and then surrounded by another chainlink fence with razor wire on top. The cage is covered by a roof, but it's entirely exposed to the outside otherwise, meaning mosquitos and no air conditioning.
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
**Write for the Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS) Blog** Not From Here, the official blog of the IEHS, seeks submissions from scholars writing about the histories of immigration, race, and ethnicity. For more information: iehs.org/submit-a-blo...
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Submit a blog post
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
***Book Reviewers for the Journal of American Ethnic History ( JAEH, @illinoispress.bsky.social ) Needed*** If you are interested in reviewing books for the JAEH, please complete the volunteer reviewer form: iehs.org/review-books...
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Review Books for the JAEH
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
***Membership Discount for Graduate Students*** Please help spread the word about our free introductory offer for new student members. Membership comes with many benefits! Continuing student members pay $15 per year. order.press.uillinois.edu/jaeh/order.h...
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
***Academic Job Opportunity*** Assistant Professor of Migration Studies apply.interfolio.com/192729
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
***Call for Papers*** Stanford University’s Department of African and African American Studies will be hosting a conference entitled ‘The Archival Gap in the Global Imagination’ on February 18, 2027. Send your 300-word proposal and brief bio to daaasevents@stanford.edu by September 1, 2026.
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
***Postdoc Opportunity*** Columbia University has authorized a search for a two-year post-doc position in Asian American history through its Ethnic Studies center. @karl-jacoby.bsky.social is chairing the committee and can answer any questions. More info: apply.interfolio.com/192621.
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Secretary Bunch is a national treasure. He deserves a Medal of Freedom. The Smithsonian - and the country - will miss his leadership when he retires. I wish him well. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/a...
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Smithsonian’s Secretary to Resign as Trump Tries to Rule the Institution (Gift Article)
In the face of escalating White House attacks about how museums present American history, Lonnie G. Bunch III has announced his decision to depart.
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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
***OAH Letter Writing Event for NARA*** The OAH Committee on the Status of African American, Latina/o, Asian American, and Native American Historians (ALANA) has an upcoming event to preserve the National Archives and Records Administration facilities in San Bruno and Chicago. Thread - 1/
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