RMIAN Founding Board Member, Hiroshi Motomura, Publishes New Book: Borders and Belonging

Read the Introduction of RMIAN Founding Board Member and UCLA Law Professor Hiroshi Motomura’s new book, Borders and Belonging, here.

“Borders and Belonging starts with an inquiry into why citizenship and immigration restrictions might be justified or troubling. The book next suggests ways to think about objections to national borders as they exist today. People sometimes make claims based on their humanity; in other words, they object to national borders that inflict harm that no human being should have to endure. At other times, people make claims of a different sort -- based on belonging, that is, that they are part of communities in a given country and that national borders erase or disregard that belonging.”

Hiroshi meeting with RMIAN staff on 1/16/25 to discuss his new book, Borders and Belonging.