Elliott Young

Elliott Young is Professor in the History Department at Lewis and Clark College. Professor Young is the author of Forever Prisoners: How the United States Made the World’s Largest Immigrant Detention System (Oxford, 2021), Alien Nation: Chinese Migration in the Americas from the Coolie Era through WWII (UNC, 2014), and Catarino Garza’s Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border (Duke 2004), as well as co-editor of Continental Crossroads: Remapping US-Mexico Borderlands History (Duke, 2004). He is co-founder of the Tepoztlán Institute for Transnational History of the Americas, the Migration Scholar Collaborative (MiSC) and the Migration and Asylum Lab (MAL) at Stanford University. He has also provided expert witness testimony for over 700 asylum cases. In addition to his scholarship, Professor Young’s opinion essays have appeared in the Washington Post, Time, the Houston Chronicle, and the Oregonian.