Celebrating Immprof Books & Book Chapters of 2025

Kit Johnson

30 Dec 2025 — 1 min read

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It's nearly the end of the year and a good time to celebrate the wonderful things that immigration law professors published this year.

Here are some of the books published by immprofs in 2025:

Stephen H. Legomsky (Washington University, St Louis), Reimagining the American Union: The Case for Abolishing State Government
Hiroshi Motomura (UCLA), Borders and Belonging: Toward a Fair Immigration Policy
Emily C. Torstveit Ngara, Jenny R. Hernandez, and Maureen A. Sweeney, Crimmigration in a Nutshell
Hidden Histories of Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the United States, edited by Danielle Battisti (Nebraska-History) and S. Deborah Kang (UVA-History)
Kids in Cages: Surviving and Resisting Child Migrant Detention, edited by Emily Ruehs-Navarro, Lina Caswell Muñoz, and Sarah Diaz
Irene I. Vega (UCI-Sociology), Bordering on Indifference: Immigration Agents Negotiating Race and Morality

And check out this book chapter:

Ingrid Eagly (UCLA), Virtual Adjudication in Criminal Courts, in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, edited by Henry N. Pontell.

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