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Hardeep Dhillon

@migrantherstory.bsky.social

she/her/hers historian of immigration & law Asst Prof @PennHistory PhD @ Harvard https://www.history.upenn.edu/people/hardeep-dhillon

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Karen Tani@kmtani.bsky.social · last mo.

Law review editors: are you interested in an article that helps make sense of headlines like these? Ping me and I'll point you toward an article-under-submission by one of my advisees - on the law & history of visa overstayers -- apnews.com/article/trum...

US set for largest mass visa revocation in history targeting up to 200,000 foreigners, officials say

If it happens, the move would be the largest single mass revocation of visas in U.S. history and would likely face legal challenges.

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Hardeep Dhillon@migrantherstory.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The last piece in our five-scholar forum w/ @modamhist.bsky.social is out today! Many thanks to Sarah Snyder for stewardship at MAH, Megan Cummins @publicbooks.bsky.social and contributing authors @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social, Heather Ruth Lee, Anna Pegler Gordon, & @irpinaingiro.bsky.social

Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New at PB: Maddalena Marinari (@irpinaingiro.bsky.social) tells the stories of the families aboard the Lincoln and Shinyo Maru, two ships already en route to the US when the Immigration Act of 1924 passed.

Immigration and Ethnic History Society@iehs.bsky.social · 3mo ago

***Take action against NARA closure*** The federal government recently announced that it will be closing the National Archives and Records Administration branches in San Bruno, CA and Chicago, IL and move all their historical records to a site with no research. Write a letter! Thread - 1/2

Hardeep Dhillon@migrantherstory.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Efforts to strip birthright citizenship = efforts to strip the vote latest research on Wong Kim Ark with some July 4 references with admiration for my colleagues in the forum, our reviewers, @publicbooks.bsky.social @modamhist.bsky.social

Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 3mo ago

@migrantherstory.bsky.social shares “The Struggle for America’s Ballot Box and the Making of Wong Kim Ark,” part of the series “The Historical Paths to and from Wong Kim Ark,” originally published in @modamhist.bsky.social and reprinted this week in Public Books.

Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“The Historical Paths to and from Wong Kim Ark,” originally published in @modamhist.bsky.social: Read the intro by Hardeep Dhillon, @bethlewwilliams.bsky.social, @migrantherstory.bsky.social, Heather Ruth Lee, Anna Pegler-Gordon & @irpinaingiro.bsky.social :

The Historical Paths to and from Wong Kim Ark - Public Books

“The decision in Wong Kim Ark’s case marked the culmination of a three-year legal battle and reflected two decades of sustained efforts to deny citizenship to the U.S.-born children of Chinese…

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Hardeep Dhillon@migrantherstory.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It's wonderful to see Penn History undergrads in @iehs.bsky.social blog, Not From Here. My worlds coming together 📚 From David Deng, recipient of the Thomas C. Cochran Prize for the best honors thesis in American history iehs.org/patriotic-tr...

Patriotic Transformations in Philadelphia Chinatown

This excerpt is a part of the Not From Here blog series highlighting sections of undergraduate students’ research. IEHS recognizes the intellectual labor involved in undergraduate research an…

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society@iehs.bsky.social · 6mo ago

From today's #OAH26 panel, "Critical Histories of US Immigration and Citizenship." @irpinaingiro.bsky.social @migrantherstory.bsky.social @michaelrjin.bsky.social

Mark E. Steiner@markesteiner.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Excellent panel Critical Histories of US Immigration and Citizenship, sponsored by @iehs.bsky.social with Maddalena Marinari, Hardeep Dhillon @migrantherstory.bsky.social, Lila Teeters Knolle, Yukako Otori, and Michael Jin (in absentia). Panel #OAH2026

Hardeep Dhillon@migrantherstory.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Putting solidarity, love, and power into the air. I am in awe of historians and lawyers who have been working hard to retain rights and protections for so many. Thank you, thank you, thank you. To a democracy flooded by equality.

AsAmNews@asamnews.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Sandra Wong, the great granddaughter of Wong Kim Ark, is preparing to march at the #NoKings Rally in San Francisco. Today is the 128th Anniversary of the SCOTUS decision affirming birthright citizenship.

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Hardeep Dhillon@migrantherstory.bsky.social · 7mo ago

It is a profound honor to accept the Early Career Achievement Award from the Association of Asian American Studies this year. My greatest thanks to the award committee, and my colleagues, including Eiichiro Azuma, for their nomination.

Penn Arts & Sciences@sas.upenn.edu · 7mo ago

Congratulations to Prof. Hardeep Dhillon of History on receiving the Early Career Achievement Award from the Association of Asian American Studies(AAAS)! https://bit.ly/4bqxUrj @migrantherstory.bsky.social

Hardeep Dhillon@migrantherstory.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Many thanks, dedicated to those who live with and in the afterlives of empire.

The Historical Journal@historicaljnl.bsky.social · 7mo ago

📢We are delighted to announce that Hardeep Dhillon (@migrantherstory.bsky.social) has been Highly Commended in The Historical Journal ECR Prize for her article 'Imperial Violence, Law, and Compensation in the Age of Empire, 1919–1922' 👉Read the article open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The intricacies of modern compensation procedures that value human life, injury, and property are often overlooked, despite growing demands for reparations and justice following state violence. This article historicizes the legal structures of modern compensation, arguing that the advent of imperial rule was characterized not only by the extraction of material resources and labour, but also by the discriminatory construction and implementation of imperial law, which sought to protect European life, wealth, and property. By focusing on one of the most notorious episodes of violence in British imperial and modern South Asian history – the atrocities committed by British officials in Punjab (1919), including the Jallianwalla Bagh massacre – this article underscores how British officials penalized protests and freedom struggles by legalizing indemnities, taxes, and fines to compensate European families. In contrast, colonial officials grossly undervalued the claims and payments of Indian subjects killed or maimed during state violence, if they did at all. Furthermore, this article reveals how imperial state compensation, managed in relative privacy and buried in legal proceduralism, was rooted in legal structures of intersectional racialized inequality, and political concerns that valued the longevity of imperialism, rather than a meaningful gesture of justice and redress.
Hardeep Dhillon@migrantherstory.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📣Interested in the history of family reunification rights? And, the differential rights among citizens; citizens and non-citizens (exempted categories)--please read @irpinaingiro.bsky.social new piece. This forum is an amazing compilation online w/ Modern American History.

Maddalena Marinari, Ph. D.@irpinaingiro.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I’m thrilled to see this forum published! Many thanks to @migrantherstory.bsky.social for her leadership on this project. My contribution focuses on the impact of Wong Kim Ark and family formation. More details about the other fantastic essays in this thread 👇🏽

Hidetaka Hirota@hidehirota.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I moderated a discussion of the Page Act of 1875 with Catherine Ceniza Choy, Cybelle Fox, and Leti Volpp in April. You can now watch a video of the event! news.berkeley.edu/2025/12/12/b...

Berkeley Talks: The Page Act and the making of racialized US immigration control - Berkeley News

A panel of UC Berkeley scholars unpack how the 1875 law helped institutionalize racially targeted exclusion at the border and laid the groundwork for the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act and later U.S. immi...

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Legal History Blog@legalhistoryblog.bsky.social · 10mo ago

ASLH Cromwell Book Prize to Gronningsater for "The Rising Generation"

Continuing with our notices of the awards, prizes, and fellowships announced at the recent meeting of the American Society for Legal History, we turn now to the William Nelson Cromwell Book Prize.  About the award: "The William Nelson Cromwell Foundation Book Prize is awarded annually to the best book in the field of American legal history by an early career scholar. The prize is designed to recognize and promote new work in the field by graduate students, law students, post-doctoral fellows and early career faculty. The work may be in any area of American legal history, including constitutional and comparative studies, but scholarship in the colonial and early national periods will receive some preference." This year's award went to Sarah L. H. Gronningsater (University of Pennsylvania) for The Rising Generation: Gradual Abolition, Black Legal Culture and the Making of National Freedom (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024). The citation: Elegantly rendered and beautifully constructed, Sarah Gronningsater’s  traces the experiences of a formative generation of New Yorkers – people born into the quasi-freedom granted by New York’s emancipation laws. By using a varied and creative source base, Gronningsater chronicles how their lives were shaped by gradual emancipation, and how their experiences and struggles within that legal regime translated into political activism in their later years. Gronningsater convincingly shows how legal consciousness gained early in life connected a generation of freedpeople who later used that knowledge to influence the larger national conversation about citizenship and racial equality in the United States. Congratulations to Professor Gronningsater! -- Karen Tani  

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Maddalena Marinari, Ph. D.@irpinaingiro.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Thank you for your excellent questions, @migrantherstory.bsky.social! I loved being in conversation with you about Rituals of Migration for the @iehs.bsky.social blog. @kevinkenny.bsky.social @gihnyu.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social

Hardeep Dhillon@migrantherstory.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I had a chance to interview two of my favorite people in the field - @irpinaingiro.bsky.social & @kevinkenny.bsky.social After Rituals of Migration was published! Read more about their new edited work--with nine scholars-- here: iehs.org/authors-on-a...

Hardeep Dhillon@migrantherstory.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I had a chance to interview two of my favorite people in the field - @irpinaingiro.bsky.social & @kevinkenny.bsky.social After Rituals of Migration was published! Read more about their new edited work--with nine scholars-- here: iehs.org/authors-on-a...

Authors on Authors: Kevin Kenny & Maddalena Marinari

Kevin Kenny and Maddalena Marinari, Rituals of Migration: Irish and Italians on the Move (New York University Press, 2025). In Rituals of Migration, editors Kevin Kenny and Maddalena Marinari—with …

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Hardeep Dhillon@migrantherstory.bsky.social · last yr.

Ninety-eight years ago, a large mob descended on the residents of Asian immigrants in Bellingham, WA, and drove them out of town. The legacy of law, justice, and empire among instances of immigrant violence still matters. Sharing some research here.

Hardeep Dhillon@migrantherstory.bsky.social · last yr.

publication day. the history of racial violence against immigrants in the early 20th c. remains as important to history as it does to our present academic.oup.com/jah/article/... With many thanks to those who supported me on this journey.