Jonathan H. Shannon is professor of anthropology, Hunter College, and a member of the doctoral faculties in music and anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/contributor/jonathan-shannon/rss en Laws & Policy Refugee Voices Fri, 05 May 2017 08:00:41 +0000 Jonathan Shannon https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2017/05/05/a-syrian-immigrants-experience-in-1930s-america https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/community/2017/05/05/a-syrian-immigrants-experience-in-1930s-america Amid today’s restrictions on refugee resettlement in the United States, an American anthropologist describes his Syrian grandfather’s experience of becoming an ‘illegal immigrant’ in the U.S. due to a 1924 law that some lawmakers have recently praised.