Browsing Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Works by Author "McKanders, Karla"

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    • Deconstructing Invisible Walls: Sotomayor's Dissents in Era of Immigration Exceptionalism 
      McKanders, Karla (William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, & Social Justice, 2020)
      Since 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court has granted certiorari and considered twenty immigration cases.2 In 2019, the Supreme Court issued eight decisions focusing on immigration. There are many different theories accounting ...
    • Immigration and Blackness 
      McKanders, Karla (Human Rights, 2019)
      There is a long history of the intersection of immigration, race, and civil rights in America. Immigration laws have operated in a manner to maintain homogeneity to the exclusion of immigrants of color. Immigration laws ...
    • Immigration and Racial Justice: Enforcing the Borders of Blackness 
      McKanders, Karla (Georgia State University Law Review, 2021)
      Black immigrants are invisible at the intersection of their race and immigration status. Until recently, conversations on border security, unlawful immigration, and national security obscured racially motivated laws seeking ...
    • The Supreme Court and Refugees at the Southern Border 
      McKanders, Karla (Conversation, 2019)
      I sat in a small room in Tijuana, Mexico with a 13-year-old indigenous Mayan Guatemalan girl. She left Guatemala after a cartel murdered her friend and threatened to rape her. Her mother wanted her to live and believed ...