Lucy E. Salyer Explained

Lucy E. Salyer is a professor of history at the University of New Hampshire known for her work on the history of immigration law in the United States.

She authored Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law, which won the Theodore Saloutos Book Award for the best book on immigration history.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]} Harsh as Tigers explores the origin of American immigration law in the late 19th and early 20th century.^[6]

Under the Starry Flag: How a Band of Irish Americans Joined the Fenian Revolt and Sparked a Crisis over Citizenship (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018) explores the concept of legal expatriation, the idea that an individual can legally cease to be a citizen of their birth state by immigrating to and becoming a citizen of a different state.^[7]

Selected works

• Book: Salyer . Lucy E. . Laws Harsh As Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law . 2000 . Univ of North Carolina Press . 978-0-8078-6431-9 .
• Book: Salyer . Lucy E. . Under the Starry Flag: How a Ban of Irish Americans Joined the Fenian Revolt and Sparked a Crisis over Citizenship . 2018 . Harvard University Press . 978-0-674-05763-0 .
• Salyer . Lucy E. . Baptism by Fire: Race, Military Service, and U.S. Citizenship Policy, 1918-1935 . Journal of American History . 1 December 2004 . 91 . 3 . 847–876 . 10.2307/3662858 . 3662858 .
• Salyer . Lucy E. . The Constitutive Nature of Law in American History . Legal Studies Forum . 15 . 1 . 1991 . 61–64 .
• Salyer . Lucy E. . Reconstructing the Immigrant: The Naturalization Act of 1870 in Global Perspective . The Journal of the Civil War Era . 2021 . 11 . 3 . 382–405 . . 10.1353/cwe.2021.0050 . 239728064 .
• Salyer . Lucy E. . A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered: US Society in An Age of Restriction, 1924–1965 . Journal of American Ethnic History . 1 April 2022 . 41 . 3 . 118–120 . 10.5406/19364695.41.3.07 . 247963489 .

Notes and References

1. News: How A Band of Irish Americans Joined The Fenian Revolt of 1867 & Sparked A Crisis Over Citizenship . . 12 April 2019 .
2. Ngai . Mae M. . Review of Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law . Political Science Quarterly . 1996 . 111 . 4 . 734–735 . 10.2307/2152117 . 2152117 .
3. Fritz . Christan G. . Review of Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law . Pacific Historical Review . 1997 . 66 . 1 . 111–112 . 10.2307/4492305 . 4492305 .
4. Bredbenner . Candice . Review of Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law . The American Journal of Legal History . 1997 . 41 . 1 . 150–152 . 10.2307/845489 . 845489 .
5. Wunder . John R. . Review of Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law . The American Historical Review . 1997 . 102 . 3 . 899–900 . 10.2307/2171664 . 2171664 .
6. Ding . Rueben Zemin . Review of Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law. . The Journal of American History . 1996 . 83 . 2 . 631–632 . 10.2307/2945009 . 2945009 .
7. News: De Barra . Caoimhin . Under the Starry Flag: How a Band of Irish Americans Joined the Fenian Revolt and Sparked a Crisis over Citizenship . 1 August 2019 . H-Net (H-War) . August 2019.