The Whites-Only Immigration Regime

Abstract After the U.S. Civil War, federal authorities began building the framework for our modern immigration regime. By the 1930s, they had adopted a variety of laws, rules, and tactics designed to target non-White immigrants for exclusion, punishment, and removal, imposing a Whites-only immigration regime in all but name. To date, federal authorities have revised but have yet to repeal this regime. This essay is a written version of the author’s 2024 Western History Association presidential address.

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Western Historical Quarterly
Published
2024-12-25
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https://doi.org/10.1093/whq/whae078
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Migration and Labor Dynamics
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The Whites-Only Immigration Regime

Kelly Lytle Hernández
Western Historical Quarterly
Migration and Labor Dynamics
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The Whites-Only Immigration Regime

Kelly Lytle Hernández
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Abstract

Abstract After the U.S. Civil War, federal authorities began building the framework for our modern immigration regime. By the 1930s, they had adopted a variety of laws, rules, and tactics designed to target non-White immigrants for exclusion, punishment, and removal, imposing a Whites-only immigration regime in all but name. To date, federal authorities have revised but have yet to repeal this regime. This essay is a written version of the author’s 2024 Western History Association presidential address.

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