Immigration Article of the Day: Interest Convergence in Immigration Law and Theory by Richard Delgado and Allen Slate

Interest Convergence in Immigration Law and Theory by Richard Delgado and Allen Slate, Case Western Reserve Law Review (2023)

This article contends that immigration law has received precious little analysis through the lens of Critical Race Theory.  “Although a few scholars profess to be applying critical thought to immigration law, their work does not address why a developed country such as the United States has operated such a highly restrictive system of immigration throughout history. To be sure, an occasional legal writer mentions critical race concepts when discussing the Muslim Ban or the practice of family separation. But these amount to little more than gestures, not deep analysis. If critical race theory does appear in the body of prominent scholarship on immigration, it is very hard to find–not in the indexes of the major books nor discoverable by a reasonably diligent search of the law review literature in this field.”

KJ