Speaker and Moderator Profiles

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 New York 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 China 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 Ellis Island 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

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