This bibliography supplements an essay published in the Summer 2019 issue of the Immigration and Ethnic History Newsletter (available now to IEHS members and freely available online after a one-year delay). As the essay explains, and this list shows, scholars…
Bryan Winston, “Contesting Immigration Incarceration: How the Mexican Consulate in St. Louis Worked to Free Migrants”
On December 11, 1911, a court in Johnson County, Iowa found Enrique Betancourt guilty of larceny. A week later, he was incarcerated at the Reformatory in Anamosa, Iowa, sentenced for five years. Betancourt, who only arrived in the United States…