American Society for Legal History Conference Session: “Law on the U.S.-Mexico Borderland: Critical Approaches in Legal History,” November 5, 2021 @ 10:15 – 11:45 am

10:15 AM – 11:45 AM

Law on the U.S.-Mexico Borderland: Critical Approaches in Legal History (Acadian)

Chair: Deborah Kang, California State University San Marcos ([email protected]), Commentator: Deborah Kang, California State University San Marcos ([email protected])

Hardeep Dhillon, Harvard University ([email protected])
Crossing the Line: Migrant Geographies in the U.S.-Mexico Borderland in the Early Twentieth Century

Irvin Ibarguen, New York University ([email protected])
The End of Mexican Migration?: Subversive U.S. Immigration Policy in the Face of Mexican Anti- Emigrationism, 1953-1954.

Miguel Giron, Northwestern University ([email protected]) Who Gets to Police the Border?: Delinquency, Annexation, and the Creation of the San Diego Police Department Border Units

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