Seattle University School of Law Digital Commons Faculty Scholarship 1-1-1997 Centering the Immigrant in the Inter/National Imagination Robert S. Chang Keith Aoki Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/faculty Part of the Immigration Law Commons, and the Law and Race Commons Recommended Citation Robert S. Chang and Keith Aoki, Centering the Immigrant in the Inter/National Imagination, 85 CALIF. L. REV. 1395 (1997). https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/faculty/479 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Seattle University School of Law Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Scholarship by an authorized administrator of Seattle University School of Law Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. -Centering the Immigrant in the Inter/National Imagination Robert S. Changt & Keith Aokit In this Article, Professors Chang and Aoki examine the relationship between the immigrant and the nation in the complicated racial terrain known as the United States. Special attention is paid to the border which contains and configures the local, the national and the interna- tional. They criticize the contradictory impulse that has led to borders becoming increasingly porous to the flows of information, goods and capital while simultaneously constricting when it comes to the movement of certain persons, particularly those of Asian and Latinalo ancestry. The authors examine Monterey Park, California, as one site where there has been a large influx of capital, information, and persons. Centering the immigrant in their analysis allows them to observe the interaction of Copyright © 1997 California Law Review, Inc.