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Immigration Law and Social Justice, Third Edition

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Authors
  • Bill Ong Hing
  • Jennifer M. Chacón
  • Kevin R. Johnson
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880 pages
Publication Date
2026-02-27
Edition
Third Edition
Description
Table of contents
Preface

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Immigration Law and Social Justice (Third Edition), by Bill Ong Hing, Jennifer M. Chacón, and Kevin R. Johnson, provides a fresh view on immigration law and ICE enforcement through a social justice lens. This innovative casebook approaches immigration law and policy from a public interest perspective with a special emphasis on issues of social justice. Along with cases and statutory material, Immigration Law and Social Justice employs a variety of materials from appellate cases, client examples, article excerpts, and hypotheticals. These materials not only provide the basic framework for immigration law, but also engage students with the greater social, political, and economic context necessary to understand the movement of immigrants to the United States, as well as the human impact of immigration law enforcement and administration. As the normal of immigration enforcement changes rapidly, this book confronts the new standards and the problems faced by noncitizens and their allies, including racial profiling during ICE raids, record-setting numbers of deportations, the cancellation of protections previously granted to thousands, and the firing of immigration judges with high asylum approval grant rates. Through examples, notes and questions that raise the social, racial, and political questions of admission and enforcement, as well as discussion of public interest lawyers’ strategies, this casebook advances students’ understanding of the creative approaches used in the field. Ultimately, this book encourages students to think broadly about relevant social, economic, and political forces. More than ever, students of immigration law need to consider social justice strategies in response to the ever-changing political environment. 

New to the Third Edition: 

  • New asylum standards imposed by the Attorney General of the United States 
  • Analysis of the Alien Enemies Act 
  • Analysis of the challenge to birthright citizenship 
  • The ramifications of cancellation of Temporary Protected Status 
  • New sections on ICE enforcement using racial-profiling strategies 
  • A re-examination of federalism through the lens of a new Supreme Court majority in favor of state immigration laws 
  • New social justice strategies for challenging ICE enforcement and detention 

Professors and students will benefit from: 

  • Deep background on the social context of immigration law and its enforcement in the context of a sophisticated examination of the technicalities of relevant statutory and administrative law 
  • Materials encouraging students to learn relevant law with an eye toward potential advocacy, including litigation strategies 
  • Contextual background to understand immigration and immigration enforcement 
  • Unique focus on immigration and social justice, as well as public interest immigration lawyering 
  • Focus on issues of contemporary relevance, highlighting some of the most contentious areas of immigration law and policy 
  • Materials designed to facilitate student understanding of the letter of immigration law, and to encourage students to think creatively about possible reform 
  • Integrated critical materials exploring the role of race, class, religion, gender, and disability in immigration law and policy 
  • Problems designed to encourage active learning and application of law
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Table of contents

SUMMARY OF CONTENTS


Contents 
Preface 
Acknowledgments 


CHAPTER 1
An Introduction to Immigration Law Through
a Social Justice Lens 
CHAPTER 2
The Immigration Social Justice Lawyer 
CHAPTER 3
The Administration of Immigration Law 
CHAPTER 4
Citizenship 
CHAPTER 5
Nonimmigrants 
CHAPTER 6
Immigrants 
CHAPTER 7
Grounds of Inadmissibility 
CHAPTER 8
Grounds for Deportation/Removal 
CHAPTER 9
The Detention Nightmare 
CHAPTER 10
Enforcement 
CHAPTER 11
Relief from Removal 
CHAPTER 12
Removal Proceedings and Immigration Judges 
CHAPTER 13
Asylum 
CHAPTER 14
The Rights of Noncitizens 
CHAPTER 15 (Online only)
Judicial Review 


Appendix INA to USC Conversion Table
Table of Cases
Table of Statutes and Regulations 
Table of Authorities 
Index 

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About the authors
Bill Ong Hing

Bill Ong Hing is a Professor of Law and Migration Studies at the University of San Francisco, and Professor of Law and Asian American Studies Emeritus, at U.C. Davis. He founded the Immigrant Legal Resource Center in San Francisco 1979 and directs the USF Immigration & Deportation Defense Clinic. Professor Hing teaches Immigration Law & Policy, Migration Studies, Rebellious Lawyering, and Immigration Policy Clinic. He has been an immigration lawyer since 1974, and throughout his career, Professor Hing has pursued social justice by combining community work, litigation, and scholarship. His books include American Presidents, Deportations, and Human Rights Violations (2019), Immigration Law and Social Justice (2018); Ethical Borders—NAFTA, Globalization and Mexican Migration (2010); Deporting Our Souls—Values, Morality, and Immigration Policy (2006), and Defining America Through Immigration Policy (2004). He was co-counsel in the U.S. Supreme Court asylum precedent-setting case INS v. Cardoza-Fonseca (1987) and also represented the State Bar of California before the California Supreme Court in In re Sergio Garcia (2014) involving bar membership for undocumented law graduates.

Jennifer M. Chacón

Jennifer M. Chacón is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. She was previously a Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law, and the Chancellor’s Professor of Law and the Senior Associate Dean for Administration at the University of California, Irvine, School of Law. She has written extensively on immigration, criminal law, constitutional law and citizenship issues. Her research has been funded by the Russell Sage Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the University of California.

Professor Chacón served as the Chair of the American Association of Law School’s Section on Immigration (2019-2020), and on the Section’s Executive Committee (2016-2020). She is a member of the American Law Institute and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Rules Committee. She has served on the Advisory Committee of the American Bar Foundation’s “Future of Latinos in the U.S.” project and the University of Oxford Border Criminologies Advisory Group. She is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation (ABF) and serves on the ABF Board of Directors. She has advised federal, state, and local officials on immigration matters.

Professor Chacόn was an associate at the New York law firm of Davis Polk and Wardwell after clerking for the Honorable Sidney R. Thomas of the Ninth Circuit (1998-1999). She began her career in law teaching at the U.C. Davis School of Law, where she received the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2009. She has also held appointments as a Visiting Professor of Law at Stanford Law School (2015-2016) and at Harvard Law School (2014-2015). She has received student-sponsored teaching recognition from her students at Harvard Law School and the UCLA School of Law. She holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and an A.B. in International Relations from Stanford University.

Kevin R. Johnson
University of California, Davis, School of Law

Kevin R. Johnson joined the UC Davis law faculty in 1989 and was named Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in 1998. Johnson became Dean in 2008. He has taught a wide array of classes, including immigration law, civil procedure, complex litigation, Latinos and Latinas and the law, and Critical Race Theory. In 1993, he was the recipient of the law school's Distinguished Teaching Award.

Dean Johnson has published extensively on immigration law and civil rights. Published in 1999, his book How Did You Get to Be Mexican? A White-Brown Man's Search for Identity was nominated for the 2000 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. Dean Johnson’s latest book, Immigration Law and the US-Mexico Border (2011), received the Latino Literacy Now’s International Latino Book Awards – Best Reference Book. Dean Johnson blogs at ImmigrationProf and is a regular contributor on immigration on SCOTUSblog. A regular participant in national and international conferences, Dean Johnson has also held leadership positions in the Association of American Law Schools and is the recipient of an array of honors and awards. He is quoted regularly by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and other national and international news outlets.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, where he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review, Dean Johnson earned an A.B. in economics from UC Berkeley, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and worked as an attorney at the international law firm of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe.

Dean Johnson has served on the board of directors of Legal Services of Northern California since 1996 and currently is President of the board. From 2006-11, he served on the board of directors of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the leading Mexican-American civil rights organization in the United States. Dean Johnson is the recipient of many awards and honors, including the Association of American Law Schools Minority Groups Section Clyde Ferguson Award (2004), the Hispanic National Bar Association Law Professor of the Year award (2006), the National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies Scholar of the Year award (2008), the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN) Romero Vive Award (2012), and the Centro Legal de la Raza Outstanding Achievements in the Law Award (2015). In 2003, he was elected to the American Law Institute.
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Edition
Third Edition
Publication date
2026-02-27
Copyright Year
2026
Pages
880
LLPOD
9798894105413
eBook
9798894105390
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9798894105383
Subject
Immigration Law
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