S. Deborah Kang

Associate Professor, Democracy Initiative, University of Virginia

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Books and Articles

The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954 (Oxford, 2017)

  • Theodore Saloutos Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society, 2018
  • Henry Adams Prize, Society on History in the Federal Government, 2018
  • Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize, 2017
  • W. Turrentine Jackson Award, Western History Association, 2018
  • Americo Paredes Book Award for Nonfiction, 2018
  • Finalist, Weber-Clements Book Prize, Western History Association, 2018

Articles

  • S. Deborah Kang, “Sovereign Mercy: The Legalization of the White Russian Refugees and the Politics of Immigration Relief,” Journal of American Ethnic History, forthcoming.
  • Tom K. Wong, Ph.D., S. Deborah Kang, Ph.D., Carolina Valdivia, M.A., Josefina Espino, Michelle Gonzalez, Elia Peralta, “How Interior Immigration Enforcement Erodes Trust in Law Enforcement,” Perspectives on Politics, vol. 17, n. 4 (2019), 1-14.
  • S. Deborah Kang, “Implementation: How the Borderlands Redefined Federal Immigration Law and Policy, 1917-1924,” California Legal History: Journal of the California Supreme Court Historical Society, vol. 7 (2012).
  • S. Deborah Kang, “Jon Gjerde’s Immigrant America,” in Norwegian American Essays 2010, edited by Øyvind Gulliksen (Oslo: Novus Forlag, 2011).
  • S. Deborah Kang, “Crossing the Line: The INS and the Federal Regulation of the Mexican Border,” in Bridging National Borders in North America, edited by Andrew Graybill and Benjamin Heber Johnson (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press,  2010).

Recent Work

Amicus brief filed in US v. Carrillo-Lopez (9th Cir.), April 14, 2022
Washington Post op-ed on Ukrainian refugees, March 4, 2022
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