On “Mobility and Sovereignty: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Immigration Restriction”

In the September 2022 special issue of the Journal of American History, Kevin Kenny’s article, “Mobility and Sovereignty: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Immigration Restriction,” powerfully connects slavery, Indian removal, and state policies regulating mobility to trace the constitutional and statutory origins of immigration restriction in the nineteenth century. He explains how immigration policy moved from […]

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In the September 2022 special issue of the Journal of American History, Kevin Kenny’s article, “Mobility and Sovereignty: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Immigration Restriction,” powerfully connects slavery, Indian removal, and state policies regulating mobility to trace the constitutional and statutory origins of immigration restriction in the nineteenth century. He explains how immigration policy moved from […]

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