Rick Baldoz is an associate professor of sociology at Oberlin College. He is the author of The Third Asiatic Invasion: Empire and Migration in Filipino America, 1898–1946 (NYU Press, 2011). He is writing a book about the shifting contours of US immigration and citizenship policy from 1950 to the present, focusing on how geopolitical considerations have shaped the broader processes of American nation building.
Rick Baldoz
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Migration and the Remains of US Empire
The way we talk about history matters. And this is especially true in the case of the Philippines, which, in many ways, served as a laboratory for America’s imperial …
