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Immigration Case Files and Stories of Restriction and Deportation

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  • Contract Labor
    • Null Contracts and the Story of Mexican Laborers
    • Migrant Workers of The 1900s
    • Greek Shoeshine Boys
  • Public Charges and Dependents
    • The Case of Alice Hilda Sparksman
    • An Irish Woman’s Secret
    • The Alleged Radical
    • The Burden of Proving a Marriage
    • Undesirables: An Italian Immigration Story
    • The Widowed Grandmother
    • Marcella Lisowski: Public Charge for Life
  • Moral Turpitude
    • The Fear of Immorality
    • An Undesirable Moral Body
    • The Mysterious Case of Margarethe Schenk
  • Stowaways and Illicit Crossings
    • The Case of Antonio Baez: Stowaway Turned Convict Laborer
    • The “Unintentional” Destination of an Extraordinary Journey
  • Mental and Physical “Defects”
    • Disability and the Law
    • A Russian Cobbler: Wrongfully Deemed Disabled
    • How One Immigrant Almost Rewrote Immigration Law
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Stowaways and Illicit Crossings

Table of Contents
  • The Case of Antonio Baez: Stowaway Turned Convict Laborer
    • An Argentinian stowaway found himself disabled and facing deportation after months of hard labor in a turpentine camp.
  • The “Unintentional” Destination of an Extraordinary Journey
    • Nine Japanese laborers endured a long journey at sea only to be deported due to restrictive diplomatic agreements.
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