The International Migration Review 50th Anniversary Symposium International Migration Scholarship in the 21st century: Critical Issues, Critical Questions Speaker and Moderator Profiles

Richard Alba Distinguished Professor of Sociology The Graduate Center, City University of

Richard Alba is a distinguished professor of sociology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He received a bachelor’s degree and doctorate from Columbia University. Dr. Alba’s teaching and research interests include race and ethnicity, demography, quantitative methods and statistics, and international migration in the United States and Europe. Dr. Alba has conducted research in France and Germany with support of the National Science Foundation, Fulbright grants, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the German Marshall Fund, and the Russell Sage Foundation. His books include Ethnic Identity: The Transformation of White America (Yale University Press, 1990); the award- winning Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration (Harvard University Press, 2003), co-written with Victor Nee; and The Children of Immigrants at School: A Comparative Look at Integration in the United States and Western Europe (New York University Press, 2013), co-edited with Jennifer Holdaway. His forthcoming book, co-authored with Nancy Foner, Strangers No More: Immigration and the Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe will be published by Princeton University Press in 2015. Dr. Alba has been elected vice president of the American Sociological Association and president of the Eastern Sociological Society. He has delivered the Nathan Huggins Lectures at Harvard University, which led to the book, Blurring the Color Line: The New Chance for a More Integrated America (Harvard University Press, 2009), and has been appointed as the Alfred F. Mannella and Rose T. Lauria-Mannella Distinguished Speaker at Villanova University.

Monica Boyd Canada Research Chair in Immigration, Inequality, and Public Policy Professor of Sociology University of Toronto

Monica Boyd is a professor of sociology at the University of Toronto and holds the Canada Research Chair in Immigration, Inequality, and Public Policy. Previously, she has been the Mildred and Claude Pepper Distinguished Professor at Florida State University and a professor at Carleton University, Ottawa Canada. Dr. Boyd earned a bachelor’s degree at the University of Chicago and received a doctorate from Duke University. Trained as a demographer and sociologist, Dr. Boyd has written numerous articles, books, and monographs on the changing family, gender inequality, international migration, and ethnic stratification. Her present research focuses on immigrant offspring including the 1.5 and second generations, immigrant language skills, labor market integration, the migration of high skilled

1 labor, and immigrant re-accreditation difficulties. Dr. Boyd has served as a board member of the Population Association of America, as president of the Canadian Sociological Association and the Canadian Population Society, as vice president (representing the Academy of Social Sciences) of the Royal Society of Canada, and as chair of the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association.

Jørgen Carling Research Director and Research Professor Peace Research Institute Oslo

Jørgen Carling is a research professor and research director at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). His research addresses several aspects of international migration and migrant transnationalism, including migration control policies, transnational families, and the links between migration and development. Among his most influential work is the analysis of “involuntary immobility,” the widespread situation of would-be migrants whose mobility is blocked by restrictive migration policies. His work on Chinese entrepreneurial migration to Africa (with Heidi Østbø Haugen) has become a classic in the surging literature on migratory links between and Africa. Dr. Carling has extensive fieldwork experience and combines ethnographic data with statistical analyses in his research. He has interest in methodology and has recently published on the notion of “insider” and “outsider” perspectives in migration research (with Marta Bivand Erdal and Rojan Ezzati). Dr. Carling has published in most of the leading journals in the field, including Ethnic and Racial Studies, Global Networks, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, International Migration, and International Migration Review. He has led academic research projects and carried out policy-oriented work for the United Nations Development Program and other international agencies, as well as for the Norwegian government. He has been a visiting fellow at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (2003), the University of Oxford (2005), and the National University of Singapore (2010). Dr. Carling received a doctorate in human geography from the University of Oslo, Norway in 2007 and attained the status of full professor in 2011.

Katharine M. Donato Professor and Chair of Sociology Vanderbilt University

Katharine Donato is a professor and chair of sociology at Vanderbilt University. Her research interests include the consequences of US immigration policy; the health consequences of migration; immigrant parent involvement in schools in New York, Chicago, and Nashville; deportation and its effects for immigrant incorporation; and the gender composition of international migration flows across time and space. Dr. Donato has published many articles and co-edited special volumes in the International Migration Review and The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Between 1996 and 2002, she was the principal investigator of a binational project that examined how the processes of health and migration unfold during the life course. Dr. Donato is currently finishing a book manuscript about global patterns and shifts in the gender composition of international migrant populations (with Dr. Donna Gabaccia at the University of Minnesota). Other works in progress include manuscripts that examine children’s cumulative life chances of migrating from Mexico to the United States, shifts in the

2 ways that Mexican children and adolescents cross the US border, and how local immigration enforcement programs affect arrests and related police behavior.

Nancy Foner Distinguished Professor of Sociology Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Nancy Foner is a distinguished professor of sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She received a bachelor’s degree from Brandeis University and a doctorate from the University of Chicago. Dr. Foner’s main area of interest is the comparative study of immigration– comparing immigration today with earlier periods in the United States, the immigrant experience in various American gateway cities, and immigrant minorities in the United States and Europe. Dr. Foner is the author or editor of seventeen books, including From to JFK: New York’s Two Great Waves of Immigration (Yale University Press, 2000), which was winner of the 2000 Theodore Saloutos Award of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, and In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration (New York University Press, 2005), which was Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2006. Most recently, she was co-editor of New York and Amsterdam: Immigration and the New Urban Landscape (New York University Press, 2014). Her forthcoming book, co-authored with Richard Alba, Strangers No More: Immigration and the Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe will be published by Princeton University Press in 2015. Among her other activities, Dr. Foner has testified on immigration issues before several Congressional committees, serves on the editorial board of numerous journals, including International Migration Review, Global Networks, and the Journal of American Ethnic History, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences panel on the Integration of Immigrants into American Society. In 2010, she received the Distinguished Career Award from the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association, and in 2011 she was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is the 2014-15 president of the Eastern Sociological Society.

Alan Gamlen Senior Lecturer of Geography Victoria University of Wellington

Alan Gamlen is a senior lecturer in human geography at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand and a research associate at Oxford University, where he is affiliated with the International Migration Institute and the Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society. He is also a senior member at St. Antony’s College and leads the Diasporas Engagement Policies Project, part of the five-year Oxford Diasporas Program. Dr. Gamlen is a political and population geographer specializing in research on human migration and migration governance, using both qualitative and quantitative methods. He publishes and lectures internationally on topics such as migration and development, high-skilled migration, global migration governance, international migration data, and methodology in migration studies. Dr. Gamlen has been a Monbukagakusho Scholar and New Zealand Top Achiever Doctoral Scholar. He holds a doctorate in geography from Oxford University, and he is the editor-in-chief of Migration Studies, an academic journal published by Oxford University Press.

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Fei Guo Associate Professor of Demography Macquarie University

Fei Guo is an associate professor and a demographer for the Department of Marketing and Management at Macquarie University, Australia. She received a doctorate from the University of Hawaii in 1996 and has held academic positions at the Australian National University and the University of Wollongong. Her research interests range from skilled migration, return migration, and student migration in the Asia Pacific region, to internal migration and migrant communities in contemporary China. Since joining Macquarie University in 2002, Dr. Guo’s research has been supported by the Ford Foundation to study migration and urban poverty in China and also by the Australian Research Council to study rural migrant labor in large Chinese cities. She has published articles in the International Migration Review, Asian and Pacific Migration Review, Habitat International, China Perspectives, and Asian Public Policy Review. She also guest-edited the special issue “New Development in Australia’s Skilled Migration Flows” for the Asian and Pacific Migration Review, the special collection “The Globally Mobile Skilled Labour Force: Policy Challenges and Economic Opportunities” for International Migration, and the special collection “South- South Migrations” for the International Migration Review. Her co-edited books on return migration in the Asia Pacific and China’s demographic transition have been published by Edward Elgar Publishing and the Oxford University Press.

Douglas Gurak Professor of Development Sociology Cornell University

Douglas Gurak is a professor of development sociology at Cornell University. Prior to joining Cornell, he spent 15 years researching and teaching in at the Center for Policy Research and ’s Hispanic Research Center and Department of Sociology and Anthropology. He received a master’s degree and doctorate from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. At Cornell, Dr. Gurak served as the director of the Population and Development Program, the Polson Institute for Global Development, and the Graduate Field of Development Sociology. Since 2010 he has been a team member of the Institute for the Social Sciences’ interdisciplinary theme project, “Immigration: Settlement, Integration, and Membership.” Dr. Gurak’s research focuses on the process of human migration, and he is currently involved in the investigation of processes shaping the internal migration of foreign-born persons in the United States to non-traditional immigration destinations. This research is supported by the Russell Sage Foundation and involves working with confidential census data at the New York Census Research Data Center. Dr. Gurak has been appointed as the editor for the International Migration Review effective November 2014.

Donald M. Kerwin, Jr. Executive Director Center for Migration Studies

Donald Kerwin is the executive director of the Center for Migration Studies of New York. Between 1992 and 2008, he worked for the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC), including 15 years as

4 its executive director. Upon his arrival at CLINIC, Mr. Kerwin coordinated CLINIC’s political asylum project for Haitians. Between 2008 and 2011, Mr. Kerwin served as the vice president for programs at the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), where he wrote on immigration, labor standards, and refugee policy issues. He has also served as an associate fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center where he co- directed Woodstock’s Theology of Migration Project; a member of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Immigration; a board member for Jesuit Refugee Services-USA; a board member for the Capital Area Immigrant Rights Coalition; and an advisor to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Migration. Additionally, he has been on the Council on Foreign Relations’ Immigration Task Force and numerous advisory groups. Mr. Kerwin is an non-resident senior fellow at MPI and on the board of directors for the Border Network for Human Rights in El Paso, Texas.

Ellen Percy Kraly Editor, International Migration Review William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies Colgate University

Ellen Percy Kraly is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Geography and director of environmental studies at Colgate University. She was appointed editor for the International Migration Review in November 2011. Dr. Kraly holds a master’s degree in demography from The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and a doctorate in sociology from Fordham University. Her published scholarship has addressed the relationship between immigration and US population dynamics and environment, emigration, international migration statistics, refugee policy and resettlement, immigrant incorporation, and population data systems and human rights. Dr. Kraly has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Immigration Statistics and has prepared reports on topics including international migration data and immigration policies for the United Nations Statistical Commission, the National Academy of Sciences, the US Immigration and Naturalization Service, the US Census Bureau, and the US Commission on Immigration Reform. Her current research focuses on forced migration, gender, and indigenous population issues in Australia. She teaches courses on geography, environmental studies, peace and conflict studies, and sociology at Colgate University, and serves on the board of directors of numerous nonprofit organizations. Dr. Kraly has also been a consultant to international projects in Uganda.

Jennifer Lee Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine

Jennifer Lee is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine. She received a bachelor’s degree and doctorate from Columbia University. Dr. Lee has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, a fellow at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago, a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, and a Fulbright scholar to Japan. Dr. Lee’s research has focused on the ways in which contemporary immigrants affect native-born Americans, and also, how native-born Americans affect patterns of immigrant and second-generation incorporation. In particular, she has expanded the discussion of race/ethnicity, immigration, and culture beyond the black/white binary to include America’s largest

5 minority groups– Blacks, Latinos, and Asians. Dr. Lee is author of Civility in the City: Blacks, Jews, and Koreans in Urban America (Harvard University Press, 2006), which received honorable mention for the Thomas and Znaniecki Distinguished Book Award from the International Migration Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA). She is co-author of The Diversity Paradox: Immigration and the Color Line in 21st Century (Russell Sage Foundation, 2010), which earned the 2011 Otis Dudley Duncan Award from the Population Section of the ASA. Dr. Lee has also written opinion pieces for , San Francisco Chronicle, The Seattle Times, The Guardian, and TIME. Dr. Lee has recently served as an elected council member-at-large for the ASA, and has been elected to the councils of the Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section; International Migration Section; and the Asia and Asian American Section of the ASA. She has also served on the editorial board of the American Sociological Review and was appointed to the editorial boards of the University of California Press and the ASA Rose Series.

Johan Lindquist Associate Professor of Social Anthropology Stockholm University

Johan Lindquist is an associate professor of social anthropology at Stockholm University. He received a bachelor’s degree in cultural anthropology from Uppsala University in 1994 and a doctorate in social anthropology from Stockholm University in 2002. Between 2002 and 2006, Dr. Lindquist was a postdoctoral fellow for the Swedish School of Advanced Asia Pacific Studies; since 2006, he has been a faculty member at Stockholm University. Dr. Lindquist has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University and Cornell University, and a visiting research professor with the Migration Cluster at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. His current research focuses on the brokerage systems that are shaping contemporary transnational migrant mobility from Indonesia to countries across Asia and the Middle East. Representative publications include the co-edited (with Xiang Biao and Brenda Yeoh) special issue “Opening the Black Box of Transnational Mobility: Brokers, the Organisation of Transnational Mobility, and the Changing Political Economy in Asia,” Pacific Affairs 85(1); “Images and Evidence: Human Trafficking, Auditing, and the Production of Illicit Markets in Southeast Asia and Beyond,” Public Culture 22(1); “Labour Recruitment, Circuits of Capital, and Gendered Mobility: Reconceptualizing the Indonesian Migration Industry,” Pacific Affairs 83(1); and The Anxieties of Mobility: Development and Migration in the Indonesian Borderlands (University of Hawai’i Press, 2009). In collaboration with Per Eriksson and Liam Dalzell, Dr. Lindquist also completed the documentary film, “B.A.T.A.M.,” which illustrates the lives of Indonesian migrants on the island of Batam. It was awarded first prize at the film festival at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in 2005. He is also a member of the editorial committee of Public Culture.

Mark Miller Emma Smith Morris Professor of Political Science and International Relations University of Delaware

Mark Miller is the Emma Smith Morris Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. He has taught at the University of Delaware since 1978 and teaches classes on international migration, Arab/Israeli politics, comparative political terrorism, European politics, and the

6 politics of post-industrial states. Dr. Miller received a master’s degree and doctorate in political science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His research focuses on comparative immigration and refugee policies, global migration, and migration and security. He has been a distinguished visiting professor at the American University of Cairo, a visiting professor at Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Lyon, a member of the Immigration Council at the , and the president of the International Scientific Council at the Scalabrini Foundation. Dr. Miller has also been co-director of the Fulbright Institute on US National Security and Foreign Policy and a consultant for the US Department of State, Labor, and Justice as well as the International Labor Organization, the United Nations, and several foundations. Dr. Miller has authored or co-authored over one hundred articles, book chapters, monographs, reviews, and books, including several in French and German.

Pia Orrenius Vice President and Senior Economist Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Pia Orrenius is the vice president and senior economist of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and an adjunct professor at the Hankamer School of Business, Baylor University. At the Federal Reserve Bank, Dr. Orrenius is a labor economist working on regional economic growth and demographic change. She manages the Texas Business Outlook Surveys and is the executive editor of the quarterly publication Southwest Economy. Her academic research focuses on the labor market impacts of immigration, unauthorized immigration, and US immigration policy. Dr. Orrenius is co-author of the book Beside the Golden Door: US Immigration Reform in a New Era of Globalization (American Enterprise Institute Press, 2010). She is a research fellow at the Tower Center for Political Studies at Southern Methodist University and at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany, as well as a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. In 2004-05, Dr. Orrenius was senior economist on the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President, Washington, DC, where she advised the Bush administration on labor, health, and immigration issues. She holds a doctorate in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles and bachelor degrees in economics and Spanish from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Jacques Poot Professor of Population Economics University of Waikato, New Zealand

Jacques Poot is a professor of population economics at the National Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis, University of Waikato, New Zealand. He received a master’s degree from Vrije Universiteit (VU University) Amsterdam and a doctorate from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He was a foreign professor at the University of Tsukuba in Japan (1994-97 and 2002) and has been employed in various academic positions at Victoria University between 1979 and 2003. Dr. Poot’s research interests include all aspects of the economics of population (such as migration, fertility, labor force, and ageing), especially the geographical dimension of these topics. Very recently Dr. Poot received funding for a 2014-2020 collaborative research project with Massey University on “Capturing the Diversity Dividend of Aotearoa New Zealand” and he has previously co-led projects in New Zealand and in Europe on immigrant integration, migration and regional disparities, and on regional population

7 change and socio-economic consequences. He is an elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Academia Europaea. He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Spatial Economics at VU University Amsterdam, an affiliate of Motu Economic and Public Policy Research in Wellington, an associate of the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), University College London, and a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany. In 2013, Dr. Poot was the recipient of the Economics Award from the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research.

Rev. Lydio F. Tomasi, CS, PhD Executive Director Emeritus Center for Migration Studies

Father Lydio F. Tomasi is a founding member of the Center for Migration Studies and the executive director emeritus. He directed the agency from 1968 to 2001. During his tenure he was the founding editor of Migration World Magazine, a bi-monthly review of current issues in migration policy and the editor of In Defense of the Alien, the proceedings of an annual conference held on immigrants’ rights and immigration policy. Born in Vincenza, Italy, Father Tomasi entered the Scalabrinian Seminary for high school in Brescia and college in Como. After his noviciate in Treviso, he attended the Pontifical Gregorian University of , where he earned a philosophy and theology licenses and was ordained priest by Cardinal Confalonieri in 1962. In 1984, he received a doctorate in philosophy from New York University.

After his ordination, Father Tomasi was assigned as instructor of systematic philosophy and history at St. Charles Seminary in Staten Island, New York. In 1967, Father Tomasi served as parochial vicar at the Church of St. Michael in New Haven, Connecticut. He subsequently served for four years as pastor of the Church of St. Joseph located in the heart of New York City’s Chinatown, where he had an opportunity to test theories of immigrant incorporation, multicultural congregations, and the institutional role of churches in the adjustment process of immigrants. In 2006, Father Tomasi was appointed pastor of the Holy Rosary Church in Washington, DC by his provincial superior of the Missionaries of St. Charles- Scalabrinians and by His Eminence Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, of Washington. Father Tomasi served in that position through June 2013. In 1985, the President of the Republic of Italy bestowed on Father Tomasi the title of Cavaliere Ufficiale in the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy. In 1991, the Rotary Club made Father Tomasi a Paul Harris Fellow. In 1993, the Order Sons of Italy in America bestowed on Father Tomasi the Children of Columbus Award. In 1996, Father Tomasi was the recipient of the prestigious International Prize “Guido Durso,” sponsored by the journal Politica Meridionalista of the University of Naples.

H.E. Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi, CS, PhD Permanent Observer of the to the United Nations and Specialized Organizations in Geneva and to the World Trade Organization

Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi is a founding member of the Center for Migration Studies and the International Migration Review. Archbishop Tomasi’s formative education took place in Italy, where he was born in the Veneto region, and in New York, where he studied theology and was ordained a priest in

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1965. He obtained a master’s degree in social sciences and a doctorate in sociology from Fordham University. Archbishop Tomasi was an assistant professor of sociology at Richmond College (now College of Staten Island), City University of New York and at The New School of Social Research. He carried out pastoral work in the New York area and served as the provincial superior of the religious congregation, the Missionaries of St. Charles – Scalabrinians. He has published books and articles related mostly to migration issues.

From 1983 to 1987 Archbishop Tomasi served as the first director of the Office of Pastoral Care of Migrants and Refugees of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. He was secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, a department in the Roman Curia, from 1989 to 1996. On June 27, 1996, he was appointed as an archbishop and apostolic . From 1996 to 2003 Archbishop Tomasi served as apostolic nuncio to Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Djibouti, and as the observer of the Holy See to the African Union (formerly the Organization of African Unity). In September 2003 Archbishop Tomasi began his service as the permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations and Specialized Organizations in Geneva and to the World Trade Organization.

Jamie Winders Associate Professor of Geography Syracuse University

Jamie Winders is an associate professor and urban geographer at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. She received a doctorate from the University of Kentucky in 2004. Dr. Winders’ research interests include international migration; racial politics and formations; qualitative and historical methods; urban, cultural, and social geography; and immigrant incorporation and reception. Her most recent work has focused on the racial and cultural politics of immigrant settlement in new destinations, particularly in the American South, and the new dynamics of immigrant inclusion and exclusion in these locales. Dr. Winders’ research has been supported by the Russell Sage Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Association of American Geographers. She has published in The Annals of the Association of American Geographers, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Latino Studies, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, and other venues in geography and beyond. She is the co-editor of the New Companion in Cultural Geography (Wiley- Blackwell, 2013) and author of Nashville in the New Millennium: Immigrant Settlement, Urban Transformation, and Social Belonging (Russell Sage, 2013). Dr. Winders is also working on a joint project that examines the cultural and political-economic shifts associated with and driving changing immigrant reception in rural immigrant destinations in the United States.

Matthew Wright Assistant Professor of Government American University

Mathew Wright is an assistant professor of government for the School of Public Affairs at American University. He has taught courses on American politics, public opinion, political psychology, immigration, and political methodology. Dr. Wright’s research interests include the causes and implications of political identity; immigration, assimilation, and citizenship policies; the politics of ethnic

9 diversity; national identity and patriotism; religion and politics; political culture; social capital, civic engagement, and trust; and US voting behavior. Prior to joining American University in 2011, he spent one year as a postdoctoral researcher at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Dr. Wright received a doctorate from the University of California, Berkley in 2010. He has published articles in Comparative Political Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, and other venues. Recently, he co-authored “Nationalism and the Cohesive Society: The Interplay Between Diversity, National Identity, and Social Capital Across 27 European Societies,” Comparative Political Studies 46(2): 153-181. Dr. Wright also has several forthcoming publications, including “Economic Inequality and the Social Capital Gap in the United States Across Time and Space,” Political Studies.

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