Karla Mari Mckanders

Publications

• The <em>Racialized</em> Retaliatory State: Weaponizing Immigration Law to Criminalize Dissent
  32 WM. & MARY J. RACE GENDER & SOC. JUST. 63 (2025) · William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice · 2025
• Decolonizing Colorblind Asylum Narratives
  67 ST. LOUIS U. L.J. (2023) · Saint Louis University Law Journal · 2023
• Immigration and Racial Justice: Enforcing the Borders of Blackness
  37 GA. ST. U. L. REV. 1139 (2021) · Georgia State University Law Review · 2021
• Deconstructing Invisible Walls: Sotomayor's Dissents in an Era of Immigration Exceptionalism
  27 WM. & MARY J. RACE GENDER & SOC. JUST. 95 (2021) · William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice · 2021

• Refugee Reception and Perception: U.S. Detention Camps and German Welcome Centers
  40 FORDHAM INT'L L.J. 523 (2017) · Fordham International Law Journal · 2017
• Deconstructing Race in Immigration Law’s Origin Stories
  37 MD. J. INT'L L. 18 (2013) · Maryland Journal of International Law · 2013
• Panel Discussion II: Analyzing the Immigration Process and How Criminal Law Fits In
  9 TENN. J. L. & POL'Y (2013) · Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy · 2013
• Immigration Enforcement and the Fugitive Slave Acts: Exploring Their Similarities
  61 CATH. U. L. REV. 921 (2012) · Catholic University Law Review · 2012
• Black and Brown Coalition Building During the “Post-Racial” Obama Era
  29 ST. LOUIS U. PUB. L. REV. (2010) · Saint Louis University Public Law Review · 2010

• Welcome to Hazelton! "Illegal" Immigrants Beware: Local Immigration Ordinances and What the Federal Government Must Do about It
  39 LOY. U. CHI. L.J. 1 (2007) · Loyola University Chicago Law Journal · 2007