In the Service of White Supremacy: Immigration and Reproductive Violence

By Lina-Maria Murillo December 8, 2020 20th and 21st Century United States, Medicine and the Body, Race and Ethnicity 0 comments

Reproductive control and violence have been a hallmark of immigration policy in the United States for over a century.

Queering Immigration in the Age of Trump: A Roundtable on Boutilier v. INS

By Marc Stein May 22, 2017 20th and 21st Century United States 0 comments

On its 50th anniversary, a roundtable on what Boutilier v. INS can teach us about our present and queering immigration

The Cologne Sexual Assaults in Historical Perspective

By Michelle Lynn Kahn January 19, 2016 Modern Europe, Sexual Violence 4 comments

The language of xenophobia and nationalism has long been staged on women’s bodies.

Heterosexuality and Americanization: "Social Education" for Immigrant Youth in the 1920s

By Erica Ryan January 22, 2015 Childhood and Youth Comments are Disabled

An “American Style” marriage, reformers believed, was one solution to the problem of unassimilated immigrants.

Immigration, sexuality and ‘British’ identity: contrasts and continuities

By Simon Jenkins January 16, 2014 Race and Ethnicity, United Kingdom 6 comments

Sexuality was a dominant aspect in concerns over migrants following the First World War.