Lucy E. Salyer

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 the state in which s/he was born by immigrating to and becoming a citizen of a different state.[7]

References
  1. "How a Band of Irish Americans Joined the Fenian Revolt of 1867 & Sparked a Crisis Over Citizenship". New Hampshire Public Radio. 12 April 2019. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
  2. Ngai, Mae M. Political Science Quarterly, vol. 111, no. 4, 1996, pp. 734–735. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2152117.
  3. Christan G. Fritz. Pacific Historical Review, vol. 66, no. 1, 1997, pp. 111–112. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4492305.
  4. Bredbenner, Candice. The American Journal of Legal History, vol. 41, no. 1, 1997, pp. 150–152. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/845489.
  5. Wunder, John R. The American Historical Review, vol. 102, no. 3, 1997, pp. 899–900. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2171664.
  6. Ding, Rueben Zemin. The Journal of American History, vol. 83, no. 2, 1996, pp. 631–632. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2945009.
  7. De Barra, Caoimhin (August 2019). "Under the Starry Flag: How a Band of Irish Americans Joined the Fenian Revolt and Sparked a Crisis over Citizenship". H-Net (H-War). Retrieved 1 August 2019.
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