Introduction: Becomingswith Hybrid Bodies—Immigration, Public Policy, and the In

This article is the introduction to the special issue of Cultural Studies ？ Critical Methodologies that focuses on the lives, feelings, and circumstances experienced by the largest group of people around the globe who must deal with unthought and unexpected liminal spaces, knowledges, values, and impositions. Identified as immigrants, and sometimes migrants, these individuals and groups move, or are moved without choice, to new locations for a variety of reasons. This introduction first briefly describes the liminal, hybrid positions lived and experienced by immigrants. The issue articles are then introduced as they predominantly focus on immigrant public policy and daily liminalities of immigrant life in the United States