The Nation and Its Peoples: Citizens, Denizens, Migrants

With this volume, The University of California Center for New Racial Studies inaugurates a new book series with Routledge. Focusing on the shifting and contradictory meaning of race, The Nation and Its Peoples underscores the persistence of structural discrimination, and the ways in which ＂race＂ has formally disappeared in the law and yet remains one of the most powerful, underlying, unacknowledged, and often unspoken aspects of debates about citizenship, about membership and national belonging, within immigration politics and policy. This collection of original essays also emphasizes the need for race scholars to be more attentive to the processes and consequences of migration across multiple boundaries, as surely there is no place that can stay fixed--racially or otherwise--when so many people have been moving. This book is ideal as required reading in courses, as well as a vital new resource for researchers throughout the social sciences.

John Park

John S.W. Park is Professor and Chair of Asian American Studies and an affiliated faculty member in Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He completed his doctorate in Jurisprudence and Social Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. From 2011 to the present, he has served as the Associate Director for the UC Center for New Racial Studies. Park writes and teaches on topics in race theory, immigration law and policy, and Anglo-American legal and political theory. His books include Elusive Citizenship: Immigration, Asian Americans, and the Paradox of Civil Rights (NYU Press, 2004), Probationary Americans: Contemporary Immigration Policies and the Shaping of Asian American Communities (Routledge, 2005, with Edward J.W. Park), and Illegal Migrations and the Huckleberry Finn Problem (Temple University Press, 2013). 　

Shannon Gleeson

Shannon Gleeson is Associate Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She received her Ph.D. in 2008 in Sociology and Demography from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on the workplace experiences of immigrants, the role of documentation status in stratification, andimmigrant civic engagement. Gleeson’s work has been published in a range of journals including Latino Studies, Law & Social Inquiry, Law & Society Review, International Migration, and The American Journal of Sociology. Her book, Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston, was published in 2012 by Cornell University Press.