Event
Deported Americans: US Citizens & the Expanding Global Deportation Regime during the Interwar Era
Author: Emily Pope-Obeda, Lehigh University
Comment: Kunal Parker, University of Miami School of Law
This is a hybrid event. The in-person reception will begin at 4:30 PM.
This paper explores the deportation of American citizens to the United States during the interwar period and argues the need for a more multi-directional approach to understanding immigrant removal. Although the numbers of deported Americans remained relatively small, their expulsions involved complex international negotiations and speak to the importance of reckoning with the transnational dimensions of the developing global deportation regime. Using diplomatic and consular documents, Immigration Service files, and press coverage, this paper demonstrates that Americans were regularly expelled from other nations for a range of reasons, including criminal acts, poverty and institutionalization, and immigration violations.
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Hybrid Event
The in-person reception starts at 4:30 PM and the seminar will begin at 5:00 PM.
Masks are optional for this event.
The virtual seminar begins at 5:00 PM and will be hosted on the video conference platform, Zoom. Registrants will receive a confirmation message with attendance information.
