The Right to Remain: Racialized Removal and Citizenship Acquisition in the United States

• In Event: Immigrants, Participation, and Representation in the U.S. and Europe

Brief Overview

The paper traces the co-evolution and effects of immigration (admissions/deportation) and alienage law (rights and legal status membership) to show how threatening enforcement contexts change the propensity to naturalize in the contemporary period.

Author

• Lauren Duquette-Rury, Wayne State University