Congratualtions to Professor S. Deborah Kang on her recently published article, “Sovereign Mercy: The Legalization of the White Russian Refugees and the Politics of Immigration Relief” in the Journal of American Ethnic History!

Deborah S. Kang argues, "that even though these Russians were defined as refugees under international law and perceived as such by the public, their American defenders deliberately recast them as undocumented immigrants to halt their deportations to the Soviet Union and give them a pathway to citizenship."

Read here: https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/article-abstract/43/1/5/382052/Sovereign-Mercy-The-Legalization-of-the-White?redirectedFrom=fulltext