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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
Class Readings
Other Sites of Interest
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Stylianos Katrantonis: Greek Shoeshine boys