By Joowon Park, author of Belonging in a House Divided: The Violence of the North Korean Resettlement Process In October 2022, the decomposed skeletal remains of a 49-year-old North Korean woman were …
Read More >By Nicole Constable, author of Passport Entanglements: Protection, Care, and Precarious Migrations Since the 1990s, I have done field research in Hong Kong among Filipino and Indonesian migrant workers and activists, most …
Read More >By Michael Dear, author of Border Witness: Reimagining the US-Mexico Borderlands through Film Over the past two decades, there has been an explosion of film releases about the US-Mexico borderlands. Not surprisingly, …
Read More >By Patrick Bixby, author of License to Travel: A Cultural History of the Passport Passports occupy a place in some of our most avid fantasies. They can promise travel to exotic destinations; …
Read More >UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are some of our recent award winners from October 2022. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by …
Read More >UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are some of our recent award winners from August and September 2022. Please join us in celebrating these …
Read More >Pacific Historical Review is delighted to share the news that its articles have recently been honored with awards from the Urban History Association and the Western Association of Women HIstorians. Hannah Kim’s “Death …
Read More >For Mother’s Day, author Natalia Molina remembers her grandmother Doña Natalia Barraza, the impressive woman who opened the Nayarit restaurant in Echo Park, Los Angeles in 1951. The restaurant became an urban …
Read More >By Ethan Blue, author of The Deportation Express: A History of America through Forced Removal The possibility of expedited resettlement in the US for some of the millions of Ukrainians displaced by …
Read More >By Ana Muñiz, author of Borderland Circuitry: Immigration Surveillance in the United States and Beyond The passage below is an adapted excerpt from Borderland Circuitry. I’ve loved the land for as long …
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