US Immigration Law and its Geographies of Social Control: Lessons from Homosexual Exclusion during the Cold War

Despite its preoccupation with issues of space, power, and subjectivity, as well as being a prominent home for immigration-related scholarship, geography includes little research on the intersection of immigration and sexuality as well as on their joint regulation through immigration law. This paper looks at the intersection of immigration and sexuality through the lens of the Cold War practice of homosexual exclusion in US immigration law. By drawing linkages between homosexual exclusion and current immigration law, I argue that homosexual exclusion is not an aberrant part of US immigration law history, that immigration law has important social control functions, and that, as a result, immigration researchers in geography attend to immigration control beyond border enforcement per se.

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Deporting black radicalism: Claudia Jones' deportation and policing blackness in the cold war

Twentieth Century Communism ◽

10.3898/175864320829334780 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 18 (18) ◽

pp. 39-63

Author(s):

Denise Lynn

Keyword(s):

Cold War ◽

Working Class ◽

Social Control ◽

White Supremacy ◽

The United States ◽

Economic Elites ◽

Gender Based ◽

And Gender ◽

Post War ◽

The Cold War

This article looks at the relationship between Claudia Jones, the pioneering black Marxist feminist, and the border regime of the United States. The article makes the case that Jones' denial of citizenship, legal harassment, and later expulsion was not merely a product of the transgression of the restrictive Cold War limitation of freedom of speech but instead concretely related to her Blackness. Jones is placed as a key figure in challenging the economic determinism within party thought, placing emphasis on her as a trailblazer in position racial oppression as a form of racialised social control which transcended a purely-economic basis. This was a form of social control that political and economic elites exploited to control working-class and minority populations and prevent working-class unity. Her involuntary bordercrossing experiences are shown to reveal how anticommunism, white supremacy, and gender-based oppression cohered in post-war America, shaping Jones' ideas which would challenge fellow communists on both sides of the Atlantic.

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“New” and “Old” Civil Wars: A Valid Distinction?

World Politics ◽

10.1353/wp.2001.0022 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 54 (1) ◽

pp. 99-118 ◽

Cited By ~ 170

Author(s):

Stathis N. Kalyvas

Keyword(s):

Cold War ◽

Civil Wars ◽

Historical Research ◽

Post Cold War ◽

Popular Support ◽

Per Se ◽

The Cold War

This article questions the prevalent argument that civil wars have fundamentally changed since the end of the cold war. According to this argument, “new” civil wars are different from “old” civil wars along at least three related dimensions—they are caused and motivated by private predation rather than collective grievances and ideological concerns; the parties to these conflicts lack popular support and must rely on coercion; and gratuitous, barbaric violence is dispensed against civilian populations. Recent civil wars, therefore, are distinguished as criminal rather than political phenomena. This article traces the origins of this distinction and argues that it is based on an uncritical adoption of categories and labels, combined with deficient information on “new” civil wars and neglect of recent historical research on “old” civil wars. Perceived differences between post—cold war conflicts and previous civil wars may be attributable more to the demise of readily available conceptual categories caused by the end of the cold war than to the end of the cold war per se.

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Possession of nuclear weapons – between legality and legitimization

International and Comparative Law Review ◽

10.1515/iclr-2016-0001 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 7-21

Author(s):

Tomasz Srogosz

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Cold War ◽

Nuclear Weapons ◽

Legal Order ◽

Nuclear Deterrence ◽

The World ◽

International Legal Order ◽

Per Se ◽

The Times ◽

The Cold War

Summary Recently in Russian policy there was a return to the Cold War practices, which include, inter alia, nuclear deterrence, and even threatening to use nuclear weapons. That policy, however, is carried out in the changed international space compared with the times of the Cold War. The period of detente in relations between world powers was dominated inter alia by discussion on the humanitarian intervention. Human rights, tied to the value of justice, become the most important component of international order. Thus, justice has become the value of the international legal order equivalent to peace. In such a reality, the legitimacy of nuclear weapons should be based not only on the deterrence, but also on the need to protect human rights, tied with justice. Possession of nuclear weapons per se is contrary to this value. This fact should be taken into account in the world powers’ policies. Banning nuclear weapons, in accordance with the Radbruch formula, should be a result of these policies.

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The indexing of biography as a special genre or as historically documented text

The Indexer The International Journal of Indexing ◽

10.3828/indexer.2021.16 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 39 (2) ◽

pp. 151-163

Author(s):

Glyn Sutcliffe

Keyword(s):

Information Retrieval ◽

Cold War ◽

Chess Player ◽

History Of ◽

Per Se ◽

The Cold War ◽

Subject Indexing

The indexing of biography as a genre, per se, is reconsidered with respect to subject indexing in general and the histories of lives in particular. The index of a biography of the chess player Bobby Fischer is compared with the index of a history of chess at the height of the Cold War conflict in which Bobby Fischer was the central protagonist. Some received theory of the indexing of biographies is critiqued and challenged by practical comparisons. Indexing from a literary perspective is considered and contrasted with back-of-book indexing from an information retrieval standpoint.

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