By Aria Bossone ’25 This year, 2024, marks the 100th anniversary of the Immigration Act of 1924, also known as the Johnson-Reed Act (1). This act introduced the concept of quotas as a means of determining who was permitted to enter the country and who was barred, opening the door to decades of structural racism.Continue reading ““America Must Be Kept American”: The Structural Violence of Colonial Legacies in United States Immigration Law”
Americana is the student-created, student-run undergraduate research journal from the University of Notre Dame’s Department of American Studies and Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics, & Democracy.
Americana 