Kevin Kenny

50% OFF The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States Today the United States considers immigration a federal matter. Yet, despite America's reputation as a 'nation of immigrants,' the Constitution is silent on the admission, exclusion, an...

I haven't really taken to audiobooks yet for scholarly works, but lots of my colleagues and students like the format, and this is an excellent reading of my book by the acclaimed voice actor Bill Andrew Quinn @oxfordacademic.bsky.social
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Really exciting to see excellent article in *Irish Times* last week on a new edited volume to which I had the privilege of contributing a chapter. Written by the fearless co-editors @kevinkenny.bsky.social @irpinaingiro.bsky.social @iehs.bsky.social #IrishStudies

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Did you know that the Immigration and Ethnic History Society has a YouTube channel?

Consider following us on there as we have videos of our past programs.

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***Immigration History and the Present (New Blog Series)***

Our blog invites contributions exploring the intersections of immigration history and the present. We welcome short essays, interviews, and reflections connecting historical scholarship to current issues.

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***Know your rights information on the IEHS website***

The IEHS website now has a “Know Your Rights” page with several resources to navigate the current immigration landscape.

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Threat of Dissent — Harvard University Press “Suspicion of foreigners goes back to the earliest days of the republic…Kraut traces how different ideologies would be considered intolerably dangerous according to the dominant fears of a given era. ...

For those following the AAUP v. Rubio trial on the chilling effect of ideological deportation, learn more about the history of ideological deportation (and exclusion) in the US in my book "Threat of Dissent," which traces that history from 1798 to Trump 1.0. 🗃️

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State House

Jcb library both with blue sky backgrounds!

Helloooo #SHEAR2025 it’s going to be a beautiful week in Providence and we can’t wait to welcome you to our lovely city and to Brown University and the @jcblibrary.bsky.social! 😎🤓

🗃️ Read @unlawfulentries.bsky.social on the importance of the 14th Amendment to American democracy: the "birthright citizenship clause’s broad inclusivity is well-established & indisputable, & it should be a point of national pride, which represents Americans’ commitment to a multi-racial democracy."

🗃️ Read @unlawfulentries.bsky.social on the importance of the 14th Amendment to American democracy: the "birthright citizenship clause’s broad inclusivity is well-established & indisputable, & it should be a point of national pride, which represents Americans’ commitment to a multi-racial democracy."

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Love charms, frog bread, letters and wakes: How the Irish and Italians handled emigration to the US The editors of Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move highlight two great diasporas’ differences and similarities

🗃️"Love charms, frog bread, letters and wakes: How the Irish & Italians handled emigration to the US" by the editors of a new collection "Rituals of Migration" @irpinaingiro.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social @gihnyu.bsky.social @irishtimes.com @tedsmyth.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

The cover of the latest bokk on the Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series, "Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move," edited by Kevin Kenny and Maddalena Marinari, showing an image of an Italian family preparing to depart and and Irish family reading a letter from America.

Interested in global history in the contexts of migration, diaspora, and empire? See the Glusksman Irish Diaspora Series, an initiative by @gihnyu.bsky.social that I have the pleasure of editing for @nyupress.bsky.social: nyupress.org/search-resul...

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Terrific book, buy it for your Irish or Italian families!

Such an interesting question. Portugal like Ireland and Italy had consistently high emigration rates throughout the modern era. Does the answer lie in regional patterns of settlement in late 19th/early 20th-century NY, PA, MA, & IL in urban centers where ethnicity crystallized in particular forms?

The cover of the latest bokk on the Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series, "Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move," edited by Kevin Kenny and Maddalena Marinari, showing an image of an Italian family preparing to depart and and Irish family reading a letter from America.

Interested in global history in the contexts of migration, diaspora, and empire? See the Glusksman Irish Diaspora Series, an initiative by @gihnyu.bsky.social that I have the pleasure of editing for @nyupress.bsky.social: nyupress.org/search-resul...

🗃️ Thank you @tedsmyth.bsky.social. It's the latest book in the Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series @nyupress.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️⬇️ @gihnyu.bsky.social nyupress.org/search-resul...

This is the United States that I celebrate. The country that my ancestors have shaped fundamentally and constitutionally over decades. We, too, are America./end

What a vivid story, one of several I have heard about rituals of migration today. Thank you @megmulrooney.bsky.social