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Books

Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War: Harvard University Press, 2016. 331 pg.

 

Dominion of Race: Rethinking Canada’s International History co-edited with Francine McKenzie and David Meren. UBC Press, 2017. 332 pg.

 

Articles and Book Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)

“Peril and possibility: A contemplation of the current state of migration history and settler colonial studies in Canada,” History Compass 17(1) (2019): 1-8.

 

“On future research directions: Temporality and permanency in the study of migration and settler colonialism in Canada,” History Compass 17(1) (2019): 1-6.

 

“The Politics of Sanctuary: John Surratt, the Catholic Church and the US Civil War,” in Undiplomatic History: The New Study of Canada and the World edited by Phil Van Huizen and Asa McKercher. Montreal – Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2019.

 

“Contested Terrain: Debating Refugee Admissions in the Cold War” in A Nation of Immigrants Explained: Immigration Policy, American Society, and the World from 1924 to 1965 edited by Maddalena Marinari, Madeline Hsu and Maria Christina Garcia. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2018.

 

“Women at Risk: Globalization, Gendered Fear, and the Canadian State,” Canadian Foreign Policy Journal (2018): 1-14.

 

“Citizen Beings, Being Citizens: Reflections on Japanese Canadian Experiences in War and Peace” in A Witness to Loss: Race, Culpability, and Memory in the Dispossession of Japanese Canadians edited by Jordan Stanger-Ross and Pamela Sugiman. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017.

 

“‘Belated Signing’: Race-Thinking and Canada’s Approach to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees” in Dominion of Race: Rethinking Canada’s International History co-edited by Laura Madokoro, Francine McKenzie and David Meren. UBC Press, 2017.

 

“Transactions and Trajectories: The Social Life of Chinese Migrant Photographs,” Photography and Culture 8(3) (2015): 325-344.

 

“Handprints in the Archives: Exploring the Emotional Life of the State,” Histoire Sociale / Social History 48(96) (2015): 25-43.

 

“Surveying Hong Kong in the 1950s: Western Humanitarians and the ‘Problem’ of Chinese Refugees,” Modern Asian Studies 49(2) (2014): 493-524.

 

“Family Reunification as International History: Rethinking Sino-Canadian Relations after 1970,” International Journal 68 (2013): 591-608.

 

“Borders Transformed: Sovereign Concerns, Population Movements and the Making of Territorial Frontiers in Hong Kong, 1949–1967,” Journal of Refugee Studies 25(3) (2012): 407- 427.

 

Media Coverage

I have provided interviews for a variety of news outlets including Le Devoir, La Presse, Canadian Press, CBC News, CBC “Homerun”, Reuters-Thomson, Embassy Magazine, University Affairs, TV Ontario, CTV News, Journal de Montréal, and The New Canadian.

Social Media

@LauraMadokoro

Country Focus

Expertise by Geography

Asia, North America, Pacific

Expertise by Chronology

20th century

Expertise by Topic

Human Rights, Migration & Immigration, Race