Hidden histories of unauthorized migrations from Europe to the United States
Battisti, D.; Kang, S.D. (Ed.) (2025). Hidden histories of unauthorized migrations from Europe to the United States. Studies of world migrations. University of Illinois Press: Urbana. ISBN 978-0-252-08855-1. 304 pp.
Part of: Studies of world migrations. University of Illinois Press: Urbana. , more
Often depicted as the nation’s iconic legal immigrant, unauthorized European migrants are often overlooked by scholars, policymakers, and the media. This volume tells the stories of European migrants who adopted irregular migration strategies to enter and remain in the United States throughout the twentieth century. Contributors explore facets of this history with essays on migration patterns from Russia, Italy, Ireland, the Ottoman Empire, and Poland. They also offer important arguments about the treatment of unauthorized European migrants by states and societies on both sides of the Atlantic and how the reception of undocumented immigrants has been and continues to be impacted by the dynamics of racial, class, and gender constructions in the United States and abroad. As the contributors show, the reception accorded unauthorized European migrants frequently obscured and even normalized their irregular migration strategies, easing their access to American citizenship.
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