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In this groundbreaking work, Hidetaka Hirota reinterprets the origins of immigration restriction in the United States, especially deportation policy, offering the first sustained study of immigration control conducted by states prior to the introduction of federal immigration law. Faced...Read more about Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy

#identity is among the first scholarly books to address the positive and negative effects of Twitter on our contemporary world. Hailing from diverse scholarly fields, all contributors are affiliated with The Color of New Media, a scholarly collective based at the University of California,...Read more about #identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation

For many inside and outside the legal academy, the right place to look for law is in constitutions, statutes, and judicial opinions. This book looks for law in the “wrong places”—sites and spaces in which no formal law appears. These may be geographic regions beyond the reach of law,...Read more about Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places: Justice Beyond and Between

Immigration is one of the most polarizing issues in contemporary politics. It raises questions about identity, economic well-being, the legitimacy of state power, and the boundaries of membership and justice. How should we think about immigration and what policies should democratic...Read more about Immigration and Democracy

Roots of the Issei presents a complex and nuanced picture of the Japanese American community in the early twentieth century: a people challenged by racial prejudice and anti-Japanese immigration laws trying to gain a foothold in a new land while remaining connected to Japan. Against this...Read more about Roots of the Issei: Exploring Japanese American Newspapers

Responding to the need for contextualized inquiry, Researching Philippine Realities is a practical manual that accompanies students and scholars in writing qualitative, quantitative, or humanities research. The book guides the reader from the broad basics of forming a question and argument...Read more about Researching Philippine Realities: A Guide to Qualitative, Quantitative, and Humanities Research

This multidisciplinary volume, the first of its kind, presents an account of China’s contemporary transformation via one of its most important yet overlooked cities: Shenzhen, located just north of Hong Kong. In recent decades, Shenzhen has transformed from an experimental site for...Read more about Learning from Shenzhen: China’s Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City

The task of archiving was once entrusted only to museums, libraries, and other institutions that acted as repositories of culture in material form. But with the rise of digital networked media, a multitude of self-designated archivists—fans, pirates, hackers—have become practitioners of...Read more about Rogue Archives: Digital Cultural Memory and Media Fandom

Popular sovereignty—the doctrine that the public powers of the state originate in a concessive grant of power from ‘the people’—is perhaps the cardinal doctrine of modern constitutional theory. Its classic formulation is to be found in the major theoretical treatments of the modern state,...Read more about Popular Sovereignty in Early Modern Constitutional Thought

In What Is a World? Pheng Cheah, a leading theorist of cosmopolitanism, offers the first critical consideration of world literature’s cosmopolitan vocation. Addressing the failure of recent theories of world literature to inquire about the meaning of world, Cheah articulates a normative...Read more about What is a World?: On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature

In a century of mass atrocities, the Khmer Rouge regime marked Cambodia with one of the most extreme genocidal instances in human history. What emerged in the aftermath of the regime's collapse in 1979 was a nation fractured by death and dispersal. It is estimated that nearly one-fourth of...Read more about From the Land of Shadows: War, Revolution and the Making of The Cambodian Diaspora