BOOKS:

• Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (University of North Carolina Press, December 2017)
  • Winner, 2019 Book Award for Outstanding Achievement in History, Association for Asian American Studies
  • Winner, 2019 Humanities Book Award, Institute for Humanities Research, Arizona State University
  • Winner, 2018 David J. Weber-Clements Center Prize for Best Non-Fiction Book on Southwestern America, Western History Association
  • Honorable Mention, 2018 Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award for Best Book on U.S. Immigration History, Immigration and Ethnic History Society

ARTICLES:

• “Immigration, Plenary Powers, and Sovereignty Talk: Then and Now,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.(7,000 words) (forthcoming, manuscript submitted) 
• “Immigrants and the State: Assessing the Promise and Perils of U.S. Immigration Legislation,” co-authored with Maddalena Marinari, Modern American History 2 (forthcoming 2018), 1-4.
• “A Shadow on the Past: Teaching and Studying Migration and Borders in the Age of Trump,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (forthcoming). 
• “Reconceptualizing Asian Pacific American Identity at the Margins,” UC Irvine Law Review 3:4 (2014): 1151-77.
• “Immigration, Asylum, and Citizenship: A More Holistic Approach,” California Law Review 101:4 (2013): 1013-77.
• “Chinos and Paisanos: Chinese-Mexican Relations in the Borderlands,” Pacific Historical Review 79:1 (2010): 50-85.
• “Tongue Tied in the Market: The Relevance of Contract Law to Racial-Language Minorities,” California Law Review 91 (2003): 579-620.

Op-eds and Public Writings:

• “A ‘Nation of Immigrants’ at the Border,” Borderlands History Blog, August 22, 2017, available at https://borderlandshistory.org/2017/08/22/summer-series-a-nation-of-immigrants-at-the-border/. (invited)
• “We’ve Been Here Before: Historians Annotate and Analyze Immigration Ban’s Place in History,” (contributor) Public Radio International, February 1, 2017, available at https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-02-01/we-ve-been-here-historians-annotate-and-analyze-immigration-bans-place-history.
• “#ImmigrationSyllabus,” (organizer and contributor) (public syllabus providing essential topics, readings, and multimedia to provide historical context to current immigration debates), January 26, 2017, available at http://immigrationsyllabus.umn.edu.
• “The Supreme Court Ruled Wrong, Then Right, on Japanese American Internment.” Zócalo Public Square, January 18, 2017, available at http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2017/01/18/supreme-court-ruled-wrong-right-japanese-american-internment/ideas/nexus/.