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
Salyer, Lucy E. (2000). Laws Harsh As Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law. Univ of North Carolina Press. ISBN978-0-8078-6431-9.
Salyer, Lucy E. (2018). Under the Starry Flag: How a Ban of Irish Americans Joined the Fenian Revolt and Sparked a Crisis over Citizenship. Harvard University Press. ISBN978-0-674-05763-0.
Salyer, Lucy E. (1 December 2004). "Baptism by Fire: Race, Military Service, and U.S. Citizenship Policy, 1918-1935". Journal of American History. 91 (3): 847–876. doi:10.2307/3662858. JSTOR3662858.
Salyer, Lucy E. (1 April 2022). "A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered: US Society in An Age of Restriction, 1924–1965". Journal of American Ethnic History. 41 (3): 118–120. doi:10.5406/19364695.41.3.07. S2CID247963489.
^Ngai, Mae M. (1996). "Review of Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law". Political Science Quarterly. 111 (4): 734–735. doi:10.2307/2152117. JSTOR2152117.
^Fritz, Christan G. (1997). "Review of Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law". Pacific Historical Review. 66 (1): 111–112. doi:10.2307/4492305. JSTOR4492305.
^Bredbenner, Candice (1997). "Review of Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law". The American Journal of Legal History. 41 (1): 150–152. doi:10.2307/845489. JSTOR845489.
^Wunder, John R. (1997). "Review of Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law". The American Historical Review. 102 (3): 899–900. doi:10.2307/2171664. JSTOR2171664.
^Ding, Rueben Zemin (1996). "Review of Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law". The Journal of American History. 83 (2): 631–632. doi:10.2307/2945009. JSTOR2945009.