Dean Johnson Cited on Immigration Policy in Huffington Post
Scholarship by Dean Kevin R. Johnson is cited in an article on "America's Love/Hate Relationship with Minorities" published in The Blog, a feature of the Huffington Post. Author Lakhpreet Kaur cites Dean Johnson's "Race, the Immigration Laws, and Domestic Race Relations: A ‘Magic Mirror' into the Heart of Darkness," published in the Indiana Law Journal in 1998, to illustrate the point that racial biases have often played a role in U.S. immigration policy.
The article includes quotations from Dean Johnson regarding the Chinese Exclusion Act and the national origins quota system instituted by Congress in the 1920s that functioned, in Dean Johnson's words, as "a formulaic device designed to ensure stability in the ethnic composition of the United States."
Kevin R. Johnson is Dean and Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o studies at UC Davis School of Law. He is an internationally recognized scholar in the fields of immigration law and policy, refugee law, and civil rights.