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…
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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…
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 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…
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 …
Internal Colonialism: Questioning the Soviet Union as a Settler Colonial State Through the Deportation of the Crimean Tatars
This dissertation analyzes the political geographies of humanitarianism in Europe’s Assisted Voluntary Return (AVR) programs for migrants. Promoted as a humanitarian policy of migration management, and often implemented by humanitarian institutions, AVR programs provide counseli…
What are the consequences of expanded US border and immigration enforcement in the Americas? How do migrant policing, apprehension, and removal alter livelihoods, landscapes, and wellbeing in migrant-sending communities? Despite decades of mass apprehension and removal of undocu…
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…