美籍华裔历史学家艾明如(Mae Ngai),现任教于哥伦比亚大学历史系。其成名作《无法归属的臣民:非法外国人与现代美国的生成》(Impossible Subjects:Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America,Princeton University Press,2004)从立法、执法和社会效应的多重角度探索美国移民政策的种族色彩和局限性,曾荣获美国历史学家协会和亚裔美国史协会颁发的多项学术大奖。她出版于二○一○年的《幸运之家:一个华裔家庭的百年沧桑史》(The Chinese-American historian Mae Ngai, currently teaching at Columbia University’s Department of History. His famed masterpiece “Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America, Princeton University Press, 2004” explores American immigrants from multiple perspectives of legislation, law enforcement and social effects The racial distinctiveness and limitations of the policy have won many academic awards from the American Association of Historians and the Asian American Historical Society. She was published in “Lucky House: A Hundred Years of Vicissitudes of a Chinese Family” (The