Kevin Kenny

Anna O Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social [ View ] May 28, 2024 at 10:02 UTC

For others who have written on this topic. See the books of Kate Masur, @schoeppner.bsky.social @kevinkenny.bsky.social @hidehirota.bsky.social Samantha Seeley, Kunal Parker. Dissertations of @bomalley500.bsky.social Katherine Carper, Cody Nager, Grace Mallon, Connie Thomas.

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social [ View ] May 28, 2024 at 20:23 UTC

People, Power, and Politics Podcast. Inception Radio FM. Intrerview with Kevin Kenny, author of The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic
@OUPHistory www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Rw0...

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social [ View ] May 21, 2024 at 15:44 UTC

Chin and Finkelman: The Free White Person Clause of the 1790 Naturalization Act "deserves a place of dishonor alongside segregation laws, the Indian Removal Act, prohibitions on interracial marriage, and other laws establishing White supremacy." 🔽🔽🔽
scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcont...

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social [ View ] May 21, 2024 at 13:45 UTC

The Immigration Act of 1924: origins, impact, and legacies. Thank you the OAH for hosting and to CSPAN for televising this session with my co-panelists @irpinaingiro.bsky.social @yaelschacher.bsky.social Carl Lindskoog and Seema Sohi @iehs.bsky.social
www.c-span.org/video/?53483...

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social [ View ] May 13, 2024 at 23:18 UTC

"Making Sense of the Molly Maguires" ... 25 years later. Thank you the Hagley Museum and Library for hosting this podcast episode on immigration and class conflict in Gilded Age Pennsylvania:
hagley.org/research/his...

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social [ View ] May 13, 2024 at 13:27 UTC

The origins federal power over immigration as a matter of national security lie in Chinese exclusion. SCOTUS cited the Chinese Exclusion Case (1889) in upholding the so-called Muslim Travel Ban in Trump v. Hawaii (2018), ignoring argments on religious discrimination. 🧵8/8

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social [ View ] May 13, 2024 at 13:27 UTC

If Congress saw “the presence of foreigners of a different race in this country, who will not assimilate with us, to be dangerous to ... peace and security,” Field wrote, their exclusion should not be prevented even if there were no military hostilities with their nation🧵7/8

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social [ View ] May 13, 2024 at 13:26 UTC

“Jurisdiction over its own territory,” said Field, “is an incident of every independent nation.” The US had authority to guard against “foreign aggression and encroachment” by another nation even if the threat came from "from vast hordes of its people crowding in upon us.” 🧵6/8

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social [ View ] May 13, 2024 at 13:26 UTC

The Court ruled that residency in the US was a privilege not a right, granted and revocable by Congress . Authority to regulate the nation’s borders was inherent in the sovereignty of the US as a matter of national security & lay with Congress & the president. 🧵5/8

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social [ View ] May 13, 2024 at 13:26 UTC

Chae Chan Ping argued he had a vested right to reside in the US where he had lived since 1875 & was being expelled without due process. The govt argued that Congress had the right to bar his entry based on the nation’s sovereign power to control its borders. 🧵4/8

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social [ View ] May 13, 2024 at 13:25 UTC

Chae Chan Ping challenged the Scott Act. He had left the United States to visit China in 1887, came back to San Francisco on October 8, 1888 (seven days after the Scott Act became law), and was denied permission to land. 🧵3/8

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social [ View ] May 13, 2024 at 13:25 UTC

Chinese laborers already in the US could travel abroad and return if they had proper documentation. Congress unilaterally discontinued return certificates in the Scott Act (1888) barring all Chinese laborers who had left the country even if they held valid documentation. 🧵2/8

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social [ View ] May 13, 2024 at 13:24 UTC

May 13, 1889: In Chae Chan Ping v. US (The Chinese Exclusion Case) SCOTUS ruled that power to admit or exclude foreigners was inherent in national sovereignty & allocated that power to the “political branches” of the fed government w/ minimal interference by the judiciary. 🧵1/8

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social [ View ] May 11, 2024 at 14:38 UTC

I've been rumbled...👀

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social [ View ] May 10, 2024 at 12:30 UTC

In Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886), SCOTUS invalidated San Francisco ordinances that discriminated against businesses run by Chinese immigrants. They were still barred from naturalizing as citizens but the 14th Amendment guaranteed their right to equal protection as "persons." 🧵2/2

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social [ View ] May 10, 2024 at 12:29 UTC

May 10, 1886: In Yick Wo v. Hopkins, the Supreme Court ruled that equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment applied “to all persons within the territorial jurisdiction, without regard to any differences of race, of color, or of nationality." 🧵1/2

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social [ View ] May 07, 2024 at 11:57 UTC

On Wed, May 8 at 7pmEDT/6pmEDT I will be in conversation with Karla McKanders about "The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic." Co-sponsored by American Society for Legal History and @iehs.bsky.social To receive the Zoom link register in advance here ⬇️⬇️⬇️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social [ View ] May 06, 2024 at 12:42 UTC

🧵7/7: Since 1889, US immigration policy has been defined as matter of national security. The origins of this doctrine lie in the racial logic of Chinese exclusion.

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social [ View ] May 06, 2024 at 12:40 UTC

🧵6/7: In Trump v Hawaii (2018), the Court upheld the so-called Muslim Travel Ban by citing the decision in the Chinese Exclusion Case (1889) that the political branches of the national government have a plenary power over immigration largely immune from judicial review.

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social [ View ] May 06, 2024 at 12:40 UTC

  🧵5/7: In Chae Chan Ping v. US ("Chinese Exclusion Case" (1889)) SCOTUS ruled that power over immigration, as a matter of national security, was inherent in national sovereignty & belonged the “political branches” of the federal government, w/ minimal interference by the courts.

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social [ View ] May 06, 2024 at 12:40 UTC

🧵4/7: The Chinese Exclusion Act allowed Chinese laborers already resident in the US to leave & return if they obtained certificates before departing. The Scott Act (1888) unilaterally discontinued this practice, leading to an unsuccessful challenge by Chae Chan Ping in (1889).

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social [ View ] May 06, 2024 at 12:39 UTC

🧵3/7: The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 discriminated by class as well as race, banning skilled and unskilled “laborers” but exempting merchants, teachers, students, diplomats, and other travelers verified by the Chinese government.

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social [ View ] May 06, 2024 at 12:39 UTC

🧵2/7: The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 act also reaffirmed the ban admitting Chinese immigrants to US citizenship through naturalization, which remained in place until 1943.

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social [ View ] May 06, 2024 at 12:38 UTC

🧵1/7. May 6, 1882: The Chinese Exclusion Act banned immigration by Chinese laborers for 10 years. The Geary Act (May 5, 1892) extended the ban for 10 years. It became permanent in 1902 and was not repealed until World War II.

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social [ View ] May 04, 2024 at 15:05 UTC

Subversive stuff

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 30, 2024 at 22:13 UTC

Thank you to all the authors of Rituals of Migration: Jill Bender @braun-strumfels.bsky.social Donna Gabaccia @hidehirota.bsky.social @kevinkenny.bsky.social @irpinaingiro.bsky.social Gráinne McEvoy Cian McMahon Linda Reeder Joan Saverino Joseph Sciorra Bernadette Whelan Clara Zaccagnini 🧵3/3

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 30, 2024 at 22:11 UTC

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 30, 2024 at 22:10 UTC

@irpinaingiro.bsky.social and I are delighted to have submitted the manuscript of Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move to @NYU Press, ready for production and due out in spring 2025. Thank you to all the authors! 🧵1/3

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 29, 2024 at 23:33 UTC

I am proud to join my colleagues on the @iehs.bsky.social Executive Board, on which I sit as immediate past president, in issuing this statement.

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 28, 2024 at 11:53 UTC

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