The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954 (Oxford, 2017)
- Theodore Saloutos Book Award, Immigration
and Ethnic History Society, 2018 - Henry Adams Prize, Society on History in the Federal Government, 2018
- Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize, 2017
- W. Turrentine Jackson Award, Western History Association, 2018
- Americo Paredes Book Award for Nonfiction, 2018
- Finalist, Weber-Clements Book Prize, Western History Association, 2018
Hidden Histories: Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the United States in the Twentieth Century, Danielle Battisti and S. Deborah Kang, eds. (University of Illinois Press, forthcoming 2025)
Articles
- S. Deborah Kang, “Sovereign Mercy: The Legalization of the White Russian Refugees and the Politics of Immigration Relief,” Journal of American Ethnic History, vol. 43, n. 1 (2023): 5-42.
- S. Deborah Kang, “Implementation: How the Borderlands Redefined Federal Immigration Law and Policy, 1917-1924,” California Legal History: Journal of the California Supreme Court Historical Society, vol. 7 (2012).