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By Nicole Constable, author of Passport Entanglements: Protection, Care, and Precarious MigrationsSince the 1990s, I have done field research in Hong Kong among Filipino and Indonesian migrant workers and activists, most of whom worked as domestic workers caring for children, the elderly, and th

By Kevin Carrico, author of Two Systems, Two Countries: A Nationalist Guide to Hong KongWhen I started writing Two Systems Two Countries: A Nationalist Guide to Hong Kong in 2019, I envisioned eventually holding a book launch in Hong Kong. The fact that such an event seems utterly preposterous t

By Colin McFarlane, author of Fragments of the City: Making and Remaking Urban WorldsI was standing in front of two side-by-side pictures, both black and white images of houses on an ordinary street. When I stood back, I realised that the photos were in fact of the same house. One image of t

We are delighted to welcome Current History to UC Press's portfolio of journals. Current History's September 2020 issue—the first issue to be published by UC Press—has just released, and, in celebration, we are making this issue freely available to read online for a limited time.Current History

By Paul Almeida, author of Social Movements: The Structure of Collective MobilizationOctober 2019 witnessed an inordinate clustering of massive civil disobedience in the global South. These protests include major social movement campaigns in Haiti, Iraq, Lebanon, Ecuador, Hong Kong, Honduras