David Coates holds the Worrell Chair in Anglo-American Studies at Wake Forest University. He previously held personal chairs in political economy and labor studies at the Universities of Leeds and Manchester in the United Kingdom. He has written extensively on labor politics, comparative political economy, and more recently, U.S. domestic and foreign policy. His latest book, which includes a survey of the current immigration debates, is A Liberal Tool Kit: Progressive Answers to Conservative Arguments.
Peter M. Siavelis is Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation Fellow and associate professor of political science at Wake Forest University. He has written extensively on Latin-American electoral and legislative politics and is the author of The President and Congress in Postauthoritarian Chile: Institutional Constraints to Democratic Consolidation. His current area of research focuses on political recruitment and candidate selection in Latin America, and he recently published an edited volume, Pathways to Power: Political Recruitment and Candidate Selection in Latin America, with Scott Morgenstern.
Dan DeVivo graduated from Harvard University in 1999 with a BA in social anthropology and a desire to make documentary films that entertain and educate. Dan began honing his skills in New York City while working on several projects, including Counting on Democracy, which documents Florida’s 2000 election scandal, and Refusing to Die, which chronicles Kenya’s struggle with postcolonial dictatorship. In 2004 he partnered with Joseph Mathew to codirect and produce Crossing Arizona, which was an official selection at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. Members of the anti-immigrant Minuteman Civil Defense Corps have labeled Dan an “activist” for using Crossing Arizona to foster discussion on college campuses in the United States and Mexico.
Ross Eisenbrey is vice president of the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), the leading Center-Left think tank in Washington, D.C. He is a lawyer and former commissioner of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission. He is coauthor, with Jared Bernstein, of the recent EPI paper, Breaking the Immigration Deadlock.
Valeria Fernández has been a senior reporter for La Voz newspaper in Phoenix, Arizona, and has covered the immigration beat as a contributor to the Arizona Republic for the last five years. The National Association of Hispanic Publications (NAHP) named her the 2004 Latina Journalist of the Year. In 2005 NAHP recognized her sustained coverage of Proposition 200, Arizona’s first immigration law. Her work probing all angles of the explosive immigration debate in the border state has been published in La Opinión of Los Angeles and Color-lines magazine and honored numerous times by the Arizona Press Club and the Arizona Newspaper Association. Fernández was born and raised in Montevideo, Uruguay, and moved to the United States ten years ago. She holds a BA in political science from Arizona State University.
Patricia Fernández-Kelly is senior lecturer in the Sociology Department and research associate at the Office of Population Research, Princeton University. With Jon Shefner (University of Tennessee–Knoxville), she is the coeditor of NAFTA and Beyond: Alternative Perspectives in the Study of Global Trade and Development.
Luis Ricardo Fraga is associate vice provost for faculty advancement, director of the Diversity Research Institute, Russell F. Stark University Professor, and professor of political science at the University of Washington. He is coauthor of the recently published Multiethnic Moments: The Politics of Urban Education Reform and is coprincipal investigator of the Latino National Survey.
Daniel T. Griswold is director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Trade Studies. Since joining Cato in 1997, he has authored or coauthored major studies on globalization, trade, and immigration, including Willing Workers: Fixing the Problem of Illegal Mexican Migration to the United States, which was used in the design of the Flake-Kolbe-McCain immigration bill in 2003.
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo is professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Southern California. Her research has analyzed the intersections of gender and Mexican undocumented immigration, transnational families, the informal sector, and the immigrant rights movement. Her most recent books include Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence and God’s Heart Has No Borders: How Religious Activists Are Working for Immigrant Rights.
David A. Martin is the Warner-Booker Distinguished Professor of International Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. He was special assistant to the assistant secretary of human rights and humanitarian affairs of the Department of State under the Carter administration and took leave from the university to serve as general counsel of the Immigration and Naturalization Service under President Clinton. He is a previous vice president of the American Society of International Law and a member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law. He has written extensively on immigration and nationality policy and the law.
Mark J. Miller is the Emma Smith Morris Professor of Political Science and International Relations in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. Among his many publications, he is the coauthor of the widely cited The Age of Migration.
Alejandro Portes is the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Sociology, Princeton University. Among his many publications, he is the coauthor of Immigrant America: A Portrait.
Robert Rector is senior research fellow, domestic policy, at the Heritage Foundation and the author of (among other reports) America’s Failed $5.4 Trillion War on Poverty and Importing Poverty: Immigration and Poverty in the United States.
Gary M. Segura is a professor of political science and chair of the Chicana/o Studies Program at Stanford University. He was among the co–principal investigators of the Latino National Survey, a national poll of 8,600 Latino residents of the United States conducted in the fall and winter of 2005–6, and has published his work in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and Journal of Politics, among other outlets.
Michele Wucker is executive director of the World Policy Institute in New York City. A 2007 Guggenheim Fellow, she is the author of Lockout: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting It Right and Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola.