Nolan Awarded Russell Sage Foundation Grant to Support New Research
Rachel Nolan, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, has been awarded a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation to assist with the work on her newest book The Returned: Deportation as Migration at the Personal, Family, and National Scale.
Over the last century, the United States has deported over 56 million people, primarily to Latin American countries. These deportations represent an unrecognized mass migration that has both accelerated and changed in character. Nolan’s forthcoming book will examine the effects of deportations from the United States to Latin America from 1954 to the present day. She will focus on three periods of deportation: “Operation Wetback” deportations to Mexico, Drug War-related deportations to the Dominican Republic, and the recent deportations of asylum-seekers to Guatemala and El Salvador.
“This generous grant will allow me to do long-term research on an ambitious, not to say somewhat sprawling, second book. I am also very pleased that it includes funding for paid research assistance by students. I thought through this book idea together with wonderful students in a seminar on the history of deportation, which I have offered several times since coming to BU.”
Read the grant announcement on the Russell Sage Foundation’s website.
Rachel Nolan is a historian of modern Latin America. Her research focuses on political violence, Central American civil wars, childhood and the family, historical memory, and U.S.-Latin American relations. She is currently completing a book manuscript on the history of international adoption from Guatemala. Read more about Professor Nolan on her faculty profile.