Join us in Knight Law Center Room 175 and via livestream for Borders and Belonging: Toward a Fair Immigration Policy, featuring Hiroshi Motomura (UCLA Law)

Hiroshi Motomura is among the nation’s most prominent and respected scholars of immigration law and citizenship with influence across a range of academic disciplines and in federal, state, and local policymaking. He is the Susan Westerberg Prager Distinguished Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at the UCLA School of Law. Motomura is the author of Immigration Outside the Law (Oxford 2014), Americans in Waiting (Oxford 2006), many influential articles on immigration and citizenship, and he is a co-author of the law school casebook, Immigration and Citizenship: Process and Policy. He has testified in Congress and served on the ABA Commission on Immigration. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Migration Review and was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2018.

Motomura's most recent book, book Borders and Belonging: Toward a Fair Immigration Policy (Oxford 2025) is described as a uniquely broad and fair-minded guide to making immigration policy ethical. The book:

• challenges the conventional wisdom and narrow perspectives within immigration policy research,
• ​​​​​​lays the foundation for thinking creatively but realistically about this complex topics, and
• suggests fresh approaches and solutions to the problems of national borders and immigration policy

Part of the Wayne Morse Center’s 2025-27 theme of inquiry Common Ground: Cities, Towns, and Counties Confronting Shared Challenges.

Free and open to the public. No registration required.