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After much deliberation we decided that Phi Hong Su’s The #Border Within and Sharon M. Quinsaat’s Insurgent Communities are equally excellent and should be awarded as co-winners of the #best_book award. We also award an Honourable Mention to Zai Liang’s From #Chinatown to Everytown. #RC31_Award

Insurgent Communities Sociologist Sharon M. Quinsaat sheds new light on the formation of diasporic connections through transnational protests.  When people migrate and settle in other countries, do they automatically form ...

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Sharon M. Quinsaat’s Insurgent Communities, published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social, provides a sweeping history of #Filipino transnational social #activism in the #Netherlands and US from 1970s to the present day.

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The Border Within | Stanford University Press When the Berlin Wall fell, Germany united in a wave of euphoria and solidarity. Also caught in the current were Vietnamese border crossers who had left their homeland after its reunification in 1975. ...

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Phi Hong Su’s The Border Within, published by @stanfordpress.bsky.social, is an exciting and novel account of the lasting Cold War divisions found among contemporary #Vietnamese #German communities. www.sup.org/books/sociol...

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Best Book Award Announcement

Huge thanks to all the RC31 members who submitted their nominations for the #RC31_Award for Best Book! All the submissions were of exceptionally high quality, making the reading and judging a true joy for the committee members.

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We thank all RC31 members who submitted their nominations for the #RC31_Award for Best Article! We received a large number of submissions this year and chose two co-winners, reflecting our main criteria of theoretical robustness and contribution to the field of international migration.

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Congratulations to Deisy Del Real for co-winning this year's #RC31_Award for Best Article! The article, Gradations of Migrant Legality: The Impact of States’ Legal Structures and Bureaucracies on Immigrant Legalization and Livelihoods is available here:
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Congratulations to Karolina Nikielska-Sekuła for co-winning this year's #RC31_Award for Best Article! Her article, Embodied Transitional Belonging, was published in International Migration Review.
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