In this seminar, Professor Hiroshi Motomura will present his new book, Borders and Belonging: Toward a fair immigration policy, in which he offers a complex and fair-minded account of immigration, its root causes and the varying responses to it.
- Professor
- Date
- Thursday 12 Jun 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
- Type
- Book presentation
- Spoken Language
- English
- Room
- Atrium
- Location
- International Institute of Social Studies
Organized by the ISS Legal Mobilization Platform (LMP), ISS Development Research Seminars (DRS) and UCLA Law The Promise Institute Europe, in this seminar, Professor Hiroshi Motomura will talk about his most recent book. Amongst other important and highly topical themes, the book details the interaction (both synergy and tension) between human rights claims and claims that are more grounded in national belonging.
He tackles a series of important questions that, when answered, will move us closer to a more realistic and sustainable immigration policy.
Panellists
Motomura's lecture will be followed by a panel discussion
- Dr Zeynep Kasli - Assistant Professor in Migration and Development at International Institute of Social Studies
- Amanda Brown - Legal Associate at UCLA The Promise Institute Europe and doctoral researcher at SOAS School of Law, focusing on migration, racial discrimination and human rights at sea.
- Dr Sandra Mantu - Assistant Professor of Sociology of Law and Migration at Radboud University, the Netherlands.
The event will be followed by drinks in the Butterfly Bar at ISS.
About Hiroshi Motomura
Professor Motomura is a teacher and scholar of immigration and citizenship and the Susan Westerberg Prager Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California School of Law.
He teaches Immigration Law, Immigrants’ Rights, and the Immigrants' Rights Policy Clinic, and he is the Faculty Co-Director of the UCLA Center for Immigration Law and Policy.