Kif Augustine‐Adams
Biographic Data
| ID | 5404030 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kif Augustine‐Adams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kif |
| FAMILY NAME | Augustine‐Adams |
| SIGNATURE | ADAMS K A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brigham Young University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8376-1937 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Minor Wives: Married Girls in US Immigration Detention
Executive Summary Early marriage presents significant risks to the well-being of children around the world. Likewise, migrant children experience significant vulnerabilities in the United States as they confront complex legal and administrative proceedings. At a crucial intersection of migration and marriage, scholars, advocates, and lawmakers have recognized ways that US immigration law enables child marriage. Research and public policy has yet …
Virtuality for Real Children: Unaccompanied Minors and US Immigration Custody
Executive Summary In the United States, federal law charges the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) with responsibility for the custody and care of unaccompanied migrant children. Since April 2021, more than 1,250 child migrants have experienced what ORR terms a “Virtual” program placement while in its custody. ORR has not: explained what its use of virtuality means for the children in its care, defined Virtual as a program placement type, set f…
Racialized unaccompanied minors: African children in United States immigration detention
Border policing and enforcement produce “spectacles” foregrounding the “illegality” of migrants of all ages. These practices reinforce policies that racialize meanings of citizenship. The United States government’s detention of unaccompanied migrant children qualifies as one such “spectacle,” yet little research has examined the disparate treatment children receive based on their region of origin. We use a complete census of all unaccompanied mig…
Unaccompanied Migrant Children in US Government Custody: 2014–2023
Between October 1, 2014, and March 1, 2023, the US Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) took custody of 568,890 unaccompanied migrant children. Drawing on a unique dataset that ORR produced in response to Freedom of Information Act requests and litigation, we provide the first comprehensive, long-term demographic study of the population of unaccompanied migrant children while in ORR custody. Our analysis reveals the children's differential treatm…
Sobre Pablo Yankelevich, Los otros. Raza, normas y corrupción en la gestión de la extranjería en México, 1900-1950
Counting Chinese People in a Catholic Country: Religious Difference, Racial Discrimination, and the 1930 Mexican Population Census
On May 15, 1930, in the small border town of Naco, Sonora, census enumerator Miguel Robles started to count. When he finished walking his assigned portions of Calle Hidalgo, Avenida Independencia, and Calle Morelos, he had enumerated 143 individuals, each of whom answered the single question regarding religious identity the same way: Catholic. A block over, a carpenter named Ignacio Ledgard left his tools for the day to canvas his own neighborhoo…
Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the US-Mexico Borderlands
In Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the US-Mexico Borderlands, Julian Lim provides an eminently readable analysis of mixing, passing, and crossing of all kinds, focused geographically in and around the US border town of El Paso, Texas, as the nineteenth century turned to the twentieth. In Lim's account, little is solid or fixed: not borders, not bodies, not law, and especially not racial meaning. The porousness of multiple bo…
The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954
Book Review| May 01 2018 The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917–1954 The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917–1954. By Kang, S. Deborah. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Photographs. Table. Notes. Bibliography. Index. ix, 282 pp. Cloth, $35.00. Kif Augustine-Adams Kif Augustine-Adams Brigham Young University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Hispa…
Women's Suffrage, the Anti-Chinese Campaigns, and Gendered Ideals in Sonora, Mexico, 1917-1925
Sonoran women who organized anti-Chinese auxiliaries in the immediate postrevolutionary years participated in Mexican women's movement into the public sphere from a more constrained role in the private spaces of home and church. While a particular ideal of womanhood imposed on women a duty to defend country, race, and gender-increasingly in the public sphere-the lack of suffrage constrained women's political participation. At least two Sonoran wo…
Prohibir el mestizaje con chinos: Solicitudes de amparo, Sonora, 1921-1935
En el estado de Sonora la población china enfrentó una manifiesta discriminación expresada en la Ley 31 de 1923. Esta Ley prohibía el matrimonio y la mestización entre hombres chinos y mujeres mexicanas. Por medio de peticiones de amparo, parejas mexicano-chinas desafiaron esta legislación, llegando con los procesos legales hasta la Suprema Corte de Justicia. En los años 1924 y 1925, jueces federales en Sonora aplicaron los principios de la Const…
Marriage and Mestizaje , Chinese and Mexican: Constitutional Interpretation and Resistance in Sonora, 1921–1935
On a hopeful September day in 1912, Gim Pon, a twenty-five year old Chinese man from Canton, boarded the steamship Siberia in Hong Kong harbor to sail west across the Pacific. The Siberia docked briefly in San Francisco, but Gim Pon's destination, and that of seven fellow Chinese travelers, was not California but the northern Mexican state of Sonora. In the early twentieth century, thousands of men like Gim Pon immigrated to Mexico, boosting the …
Making Mexico: Legal Nationality, Chinese Race, and the 1930 Population Census
“Take the census; make the country. Let's do both together!” “ Hacer censos, es hacer Patria. Ayúdenos a hacerlos ” cajoled one bold, bright poster in the days before May 15, 1930 when census takers dispersed across Mexico to count its inhabitants. Other placards similarly played on multiple meanings for the verb “hacer”—to make or to do: “Taking a census will make the country ...” “Hagamos censos y haremos patria...” At the same time, within tha…
Constructing Mexico: Marriage, Law and Women's Dependent Citizenship in the Late‐Nineteenth and Early‐Twentieth Centuries
With Notice of the Consequences: Liberal Political Theory, Marriage, and Women's Citizenship in the United States
Using case law and other legal sources, this article explores how many judges, scholars, and government officials in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries used classical liberal political theory, particularly notions of consent, to construct a woman's changed citizenship on marriage as her own independent choice. In the United States, rules that made a married woman's citizenship dependent on that of her husband reveal a current of ascript…
The Web of Membership: The Consonance and Conflict of Being American and Latter-Day Saint
When asked who she is, an individual may identify herself as Hispanic, a born-again Christian, Canadian, an accountant, a sister, a daughter, a friend. The various communities to which she belongs create a web of membership, strands of her individual identity. Her membership in a public legal community, her citizenship, stands out as a dominant strand, affecting her ability to maintain and enjoy other strands of membership and identity, be they r…
Prohibir el mestizaje con chinos: Solicitudes de amparo, Sonora, 1921-1935
En el estado de Sonora la población china enfrentó una manifiesta discriminación expresada en la Ley 31 de 1923. Esta Ley prohibía el matrimonio y la mestización entre hombres chinos y mujeres mexicanas. Por medio de peticiones de amparo, parejas mexicano-chinas desafiaron esta legislación, llegando con los procesos legales hasta la Suprema Corte de Justicia. En los años 1924 y 1925, jueces federales en Sonora aplicaron los principios de la Const…
Marriage and Mestizaje , Chinese and Mexican: Constitutional Interpretation and Resistance in Sonora, 1921–1935
On a hopeful September day in 1912, Gim Pon, a twenty-five year old Chinese man from Canton, boarded the steamship Siberia in Hong Kong harbor to sail west across the Pacific. The Siberia docked briefly in San Francisco, but Gim Pon's destination, and that of seven fellow Chinese travelers, was not California but the northern Mexican state of Sonora. In the early twentieth century, thousands of men like Gim Pon immigrated to Mexico, boosting the …
Constructing Mexico: Marriage, Law and Women's Dependent Citizenship in the Late‐Nineteenth and Early‐Twentieth Centuries
Women's Suffrage, the Anti-Chinese Campaigns, and Gendered Ideals in Sonora, Mexico, 1917-1925
Sonoran women who organized anti-Chinese auxiliaries in the immediate postrevolutionary years participated in Mexican women's movement into the public sphere from a more constrained role in the private spaces of home and church. While a particular ideal of womanhood imposed on women a duty to defend country, race, and gender-increasingly in the public sphere-the lack of suffrage constrained women's political participation. At least two Sonoran wo…
Making Mexico: Legal Nationality, Chinese Race, and the 1930 Population Census
“Take the census; make the country. Let's do both together!” “ Hacer censos, es hacer Patria. Ayúdenos a hacerlos ” cajoled one bold, bright poster in the days before May 15, 1930 when census takers dispersed across Mexico to count its inhabitants. Other placards similarly played on multiple meanings for the verb “hacer”—to make or to do: “Taking a census will make the country ...” “Hagamos censos y haremos patria...” At the same time, within tha…
The Web of Membership: The Consonance and Conflict of Being American and Latter-Day Saint
When asked who she is, an individual may identify herself as Hispanic, a born-again Christian, Canadian, an accountant, a sister, a daughter, a friend. The various communities to which she belongs create a web of membership, strands of her individual identity. Her membership in a public legal community, her citizenship, stands out as a dominant strand, affecting her ability to maintain and enjoy other strands of membership and identity, be they r…
With Notice of the Consequences: Liberal Political Theory, Marriage, and Women's Citizenship in the United States
Using case law and other legal sources, this article explores how many judges, scholars, and government officials in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries used classical liberal political theory, particularly notions of consent, to construct a woman's changed citizenship on marriage as her own independent choice. In the United States, rules that made a married woman's citizenship dependent on that of her husband reveal a current of ascript…
Constructing Mexico: Marriage, Law and Women's Dependent Citizenship in the Late‐Nineteenth and Early‐Twentieth Centuries
Making Mexico: Legal Nationality, Chinese Race, and the 1930 Population Census
“Take the census; make the country. Let's do both together!” “ Hacer censos, es hacer Patria. Ayúdenos a hacerlos ” cajoled one bold, bright poster in the days before May 15, 1930 when census takers dispersed across Mexico to count its inhabitants. Other placards similarly played on multiple meanings for the verb “hacer”—to make or to do: “Taking a census will make the country ...” “Hagamos censos y haremos patria...” At the same time, within tha…
Marriage and Mestizaje , Chinese and Mexican: Constitutional Interpretation and Resistance in Sonora, 1921–1935
On a hopeful September day in 1912, Gim Pon, a twenty-five year old Chinese man from Canton, boarded the steamship Siberia in Hong Kong harbor to sail west across the Pacific. The Siberia docked briefly in San Francisco, but Gim Pon's destination, and that of seven fellow Chinese travelers, was not California but the northern Mexican state of Sonora. In the early twentieth century, thousands of men like Gim Pon immigrated to Mexico, boosting the …
Prohibir el mestizaje con chinos: Solicitudes de amparo, Sonora, 1921-1935
En el estado de Sonora la población china enfrentó una manifiesta discriminación expresada en la Ley 31 de 1923. Esta Ley prohibía el matrimonio y la mestización entre hombres chinos y mujeres mexicanas. Por medio de peticiones de amparo, parejas mexicano-chinas desafiaron esta legislación, llegando con los procesos legales hasta la Suprema Corte de Justicia. En los años 1924 y 1925, jueces federales en Sonora aplicaron los principios de la Const…
Women's Suffrage, the Anti-Chinese Campaigns, and Gendered Ideals in Sonora, Mexico, 1917-1925
Sonoran women who organized anti-Chinese auxiliaries in the immediate postrevolutionary years participated in Mexican women's movement into the public sphere from a more constrained role in the private spaces of home and church. While a particular ideal of womanhood imposed on women a duty to defend country, race, and gender-increasingly in the public sphere-the lack of suffrage constrained women's political participation. At least two Sonoran wo…
The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954
Book Review| May 01 2018 The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917–1954 The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917–1954. By Kang, S. Deborah. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Photographs. Table. Notes. Bibliography. Index. ix, 282 pp. Cloth, $35.00. Kif Augustine-Adams Kif Augustine-Adams Brigham Young University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Hispa…
Counting Chinese People in a Catholic Country: Religious Difference, Racial Discrimination, and the 1930 Mexican Population Census
On May 15, 1930, in the small border town of Naco, Sonora, census enumerator Miguel Robles started to count. When he finished walking his assigned portions of Calle Hidalgo, Avenida Independencia, and Calle Morelos, he had enumerated 143 individuals, each of whom answered the single question regarding religious identity the same way: Catholic. A block over, a carpenter named Ignacio Ledgard left his tools for the day to canvas his own neighborhoo…
Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the US-Mexico Borderlands
In Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the US-Mexico Borderlands, Julian Lim provides an eminently readable analysis of mixing, passing, and crossing of all kinds, focused geographically in and around the US border town of El Paso, Texas, as the nineteenth century turned to the twentieth. In Lim's account, little is solid or fixed: not borders, not bodies, not law, and especially not racial meaning. The porousness of multiple bo…
Sobre Pablo Yankelevich, Los otros. Raza, normas y corrupción en la gestión de la extranjería en México, 1900-1950
Virtuality for Real Children: Unaccompanied Minors and US Immigration Custody
Executive Summary In the United States, federal law charges the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) with responsibility for the custody and care of unaccompanied migrant children. Since April 2021, more than 1,250 child migrants have experienced what ORR terms a “Virtual” program placement while in its custody. ORR has not: explained what its use of virtuality means for the children in its care, defined Virtual as a program placement type, set f…
Racialized unaccompanied minors: African children in United States immigration detention
Border policing and enforcement produce “spectacles” foregrounding the “illegality” of migrants of all ages. These practices reinforce policies that racialize meanings of citizenship. The United States government’s detention of unaccompanied migrant children qualifies as one such “spectacle,” yet little research has examined the disparate treatment children receive based on their region of origin. We use a complete census of all unaccompanied mig…
Unaccompanied Migrant Children in US Government Custody: 2014–2023
Between October 1, 2014, and March 1, 2023, the US Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) took custody of 568,890 unaccompanied migrant children. Drawing on a unique dataset that ORR produced in response to Freedom of Information Act requests and litigation, we provide the first comprehensive, long-term demographic study of the population of unaccompanied migrant children while in ORR custody. Our analysis reveals the children's differential treatm…
Minor Wives: Married Girls in US Immigration Detention
Executive Summary Early marriage presents significant risks to the well-being of children around the world. Likewise, migrant children experience significant vulnerabilities in the United States as they confront complex legal and administrative proceedings. At a crucial intersection of migration and marriage, scholars, advocates, and lawmakers have recognized ways that US immigration law enables child marriage. Research and public policy has yet …
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · History (6 works) · Immigration (6 works) · Citizenship (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (4 works)