“Human-trafficking,” “exploitation,” and “victim” are three words that have ruined how the world sees Thai women. These words have hidden them, covered them like invisible ink. They posit Thai women as passive and exotic, or worse as defeated, abused casualties…
Ashley Johnson Bavery, “Borderlands in North America: A Selective Bibliography”
This bibliography supplements a historiographical essay published in the summer 2018 issue of the Immigration and Ethnic History Newsletter (available now to IEHS members and freely available online after a one-year delay). Conceptual Works Anzaldua, Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New…
Carly Goodman, “Writing U.S. Immigration History on the Other Side of the World”
I was walking down the avenue in Biyem-Assi, a neighborhood in Yaoundé, Cameroon’s capital, trying to avoid stepping into the sewer that edged the road or into the path of one of the many scrambling shared taxis that comprise public…
