Immigration and the Legacies of the Past
The Impact of Slavery and the Holocaust on Contemporary Immigrants in the United States and Western Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7987347 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nancy Foner (City University of New York), R Alba (0000-0003-2966-441X, City University of New York) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 798-819 |
| Publication date | 2010-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417510000447 |
| OpenAlex | W2095540833 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 54 |
It is a basic truism that the past influences the present, but the key questions concern which past and how its impact occurs. In this paper we seek to understand how legacies of the past affect the pathways and experiences of contemporary immigrants. Our specific concern is with the present-day impact of two momentous historical ethno-racial traumas: the Holocaust in Western Europe, and slavery and ensuing legal segregation (“Jim Crow”) in the United States. At first blush, their legacies seem unrelated to immigration today, and these pasts are rarely central to discussions about it. But in fact memories of and institutional responses to the sins of the Nazi genocide, on the one hand, and of slavery and legal racial segregation, on the other, have played a role in shaping public perceptions and policies that affect contemporary immigrants and their children
Affect (linguistics · Criminology · Ethnology · Genocide · Immigration · Immigration policy · Nazism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public discourse · Sociology · The Holocaust · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
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| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |