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Brianna Nofil

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  • Mexican Americans in a detention camp.

    A Nation of Imprisoned Immigrants

    Jails have been foundational to immigration enforcement for over a century—and have always operated with a staggering absence of oversight and public awareness.
    by Brianna Nofil via Inquest on January 21, 2025
  • Photo of Galveston County Jail, 1929.

    How Texas Jails Built Migrant Incarceration

    Following a 1925 investigation, immigrant detention in the Galveston County Jail was declared “a crime against humanity.”
    by Brianna Nofil via Texas Observer on November 19, 2024
  • A crowd of Chinese immigrants stands around in a train depot.
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    The China Business

    At the turn of the century in upstate New York, one tiny town learned there was money to make in the jailing of Chinese migrants.
    by Brianna Nofil via HNN on October 22, 2024
  • Cartoon portraits of women who were mayors in 1922.

    In the 1920s, the Now-Forgotten Flood of 'Girl Mayors' Became the Face of Feminism

    Profiles of a few of the municipal leaders elected in the wake of the 19th Amendment.
    by Brianna Nofil via Atlas Obscura on July 6, 2016
  • Ellis Island's Forgotten Final Act as a Cold War Detention Center

    The idealistic interpretation of Ellis Island should be revisited.
    by Brianna Nofil via Atlas Obscura on February 2, 2016
Book
The Migrant's Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration
Brianna Nofil
2024
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