Between 1980 and 2020, the United States saw the precipitous expansion of a regime of detention, incarceration, and mass deportation on a scale without parallel or precedent in modern history. This study has the following aims: a) to refine our understanding of the social and po…
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Internal Colonialism: Questioning the Soviet Union as a Settler Colonial State Through the Deportation of the Crimean Tatars
This project examines the Southeast Asian refugees, specifically Cambodian refugees, as they relate to both the imperial and carceral state. In examining both “oral hxstory” interviews from organizers within the Southeast Asian Freedom Network (SEAFN) and my own autoethnographic…
This dissertation argues that Stalin’s rumored plan to deport the Jews of the Soviet Union to locations in the Soviet Far East in 1953 can be examined as a plot-generating device, irrespective of the question of its historical reality. Seen in this light, the deportation plan fi…
This qualitative research study investigates the perceptions of children, parents, and staff members at a Boston multi-service nonprofit for Haitian immigrants. It is an exploration of how children cultivate their identity, and how a center for immigrants functions in the curren…
Social policies that criminalize students can create a school environment that pushes immigrant students out of school and into immigration enforcement agencies' crosshairs. The school-to-prison pipeline is a well-documented phenomenon rooted in institutional racism and affects …
In recent years, a significant body of scholarly works has noted that the multi-national Soviet regime paradoxically fostered ethnic identities among many groups that had previously lacked such identities. For example, the ethnic designations of the peoples of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz…
Between the autumn of 1939 and the spring of 1941, the Nazi regime conducted a mammoth exercise in population policy devised to “Germanize” those regions of western Poland formally annexed to the Reich following the Polish campaign. Based on the conviction that any lasting conqu…
This dissertation examines Meskhetian Turk refugees' conception of home as a way of investigating repatriation, the dominant discourse in global policy and theory for managing refugees. Repatriation is considered ideologically and in policy making to be the preferred “durable” s…
"From 1718 to 1775, British courts banished 50,000 convicts to America--the largest body of immigrants, aside from African slaves, ever sent across the Atlantic--in hopes of restoring social peace at home without posing the threat to traditional freedoms raised by the death pena…
This collection of essays considers the Soviet-era gulag in the Baltic States within the broader international research on displacement and cultural memory. Scholars from the Baltic States, Western Europe, Canada, and the United States explore the following questions: Do differe…