Yoku Shaw-Taylor studies and writes about immigration. He is editor of Immigration, the Borderlands and the Resilient Homeland, (2023). He is co-editor (with Steve Tuch) of The Other African Americans: Contemporary African and Caribbean Immigrants in the United States, (2007). He is co-author (with Lorraine McCall) of Immigration, Assimilation and Border Security, second edition, (2020). He is co-author (with Pamela Peck Williams) of a history book of photo essays, Images of America: Bowie, (2016). His research publications are trans-disciplinary. Yoku has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the George Washington University.