The Nation and Its Peoples: Citizens, Denizens, Migrants

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.