# Hiroshi Motomura
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hiroshi motomura (born 1953) is the Susan Westerberg Prager Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law. He is a leading scholar of American immigration and citizenship law.
== Awards ==
2006 PSP Award for Excellence, Law & Legal Studies from the Association of American Publishers for Americans in Waiting
Guggenheim Fellowship (April 2017)
== Works ==
Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States.
Hiroshi Motomura, "Borders and Belonging: Toward a Fair, Realistic, and Sustainable Immigration Policy" (Oxford UP, 2024)
Immigration is now a polarizing issue across most advanced democracies. But too much that is written about immigration fails to appreciate the complex responses to the phenomenon. Too many observers assume imaginary consensus, avoid basic questions, or disregard the larger context for human migrati…
Scholars’ Circle – Immigrants to US and how they are treated by its Laws and Executive power of US Presidents – February 9, 2025
What exactly is the political, physical, and existential meanings of borders? Borders are human creations but often define state and national boundaries and even identities. They define belonging to a nation. And under this new administration, borders have become the most visible feature not just o…
Unpacking the Beast That is Immigration in America
The United States has a complicated relationship with immigration. Or, does it? In this podcast episode, we unpack immigration policies in the US and narratives around immigration with Prof. Hiroshi Motomura and Prof. Cecilia Menjívar from UCLA.
This interview was conducted by Ankita M. Kumar, who …
Scholars’ Circle – Supreme Court allows deportation based on profiling ; The future of indigenous exhibits – September 14, 2025
How does the US Supreme Court decision to allow ICE to target immigrants based on language, accent, race, and employment affect the sweeps of undocumented immigrants in the US. And what are the social and economic impacts of Trump’s deportation policy? [ dur: 29mins. ]
Hiroshi Motomura is the Su…
Season 2, Episode 2: H-1B Visas
David J. Bier, Director of Immigration Studies and The Selz Foundation Chair in Immigration Policy at the Cato Institute, joins Hiroshi Motomura and Cristina Rodriguez to discuss the implications of 2025 Executive Order on H-1B visas, what might be motivating that Executive Order, and the ins and o…
Season 2, Episode 3: 'I’m an Immigration Lawyer. Trump Is Shattering My Clients’ Lives.'
Elora Mukherjee, Jerome L. Greene Clinical Professor Law at Columbia Law School, joins Alex Aleinikoff and Hiroshi Motomura to discuss her December 2025 op-ed in the New York Times, “I’m an Immigration Lawyer. Trump Is Shattering My Clients’ Lives” and the broader context around immigration law in …
Scholars’ Circle – US Policy of Policing Immigrants; Author Interview of Borders, Politics and Belonging – April 12, 2026
Kristi Noem, the controversial Secretary of Homeland Security, was fired from her position in March of 2026. Her short tenure as secretary was marked by numerous accusations of overreach of power, violations of due process particularly with regard to immigrants without proper documentation, and kil…
Scholars’ Circle – SCOTUS Decisions: Birthright Citizenship and Refugee Rights – July 5, 2026
The 14th Amendment of the US Constitution, Section 1 reads as follows: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.” So all persons born in the US are citizens. We call this…
UCLA Professor Hiroshi Motomura: Americans in Waiting, Immigration and Our Shared Future
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In this episode of Finding Your Voice, UCLA Professor Hiroshi Motomura reflects on how immigrating from Japan to the United States at age three shaped his identity and his life’s work in immigration law. Drawing from his book Borders and Belonging, he explores the difference betwee…
Borders, Migration, and National Security
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was created in 2002 to address national security concerns in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. Over the last 25 years, however, DHS has expanded its reach to become the largest law enforcement agency in the U.S. And in recent years, much of that gr…
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