Elusive Citizenship

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Lucid and compelling, Park's book is essential reading for those who want to understand the limits of American civil rights discourse-and post-September 11, that should be all of us. - Angela Harris,Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley Park rigorously and elegantly pursues a vexing socio-legal issue: Who belongs in America, and why does U.S. immigration law shape contradictory public responses to this question? Examining Asian immigrants who 'evaded, fought, and embraced American law' in the face of government treatment that was sometimes welcoming and most often hostile, Park generates deep insights into a conflictual legal regime that continues to foster treatment of present-day immigrants of color (post-Proposition 187 and September 11) simultaneously as economic contributors and social pariahs. - Eric Yamamoto,School of Law, University of Hawaii Although he is a legal scholar, his book is more than academic. The issues that Park raises are at the heart of what it means to be a diverse democracy- or not. (Trial) A well-executed interdisciplinary work combining the theoretical and the empirical in ways that benefit the understanding of both. (The Law and Politics Book Review) In many ways, this book is perfect....This is an important book that succeeds on its own terms and will be well used in immigration and legal history as well as Asian American studies. (Journal of Asian Studies)