Member Profiles

The following CRN Members (in alphabetical order) have provided information on their teaching and research activities.

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Name David Abraham
Institutional
Affiliation
School of Law, University of Miami
Country
Base
USA
Current
Position
Professor of Law
Teaching immigration, citizenship, social theory, Germany, Israel, labor
Research
Interests
same as above
Selected
Publications
(2008) “The Bush Regime from Elections to Detentions: A Moral Economy of Carl Schmitt and Human Rights,” 62 University of Miami Law Review249.

(2007) “Doing Justice on Two Fronts: The Liberal Dilemma in Immigration,” SSRN Working paper No. 2007-19, June 2007.

(2007) “Symposium: Immigration Reform and Policy in the Current Politically Polarized Climate” 16 Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review457.

(2007) “The Boundaries and Bonds of Citizenship: Recognition and Redistribution in the United States, Germany and Israel,” in Anthony Grafton and Marc Rodriguez, ed, Migration in History, Princeton, pp. 201-49.

Reviews:(2007) Selecting by Origin: Ethnic Migration in the Liberal State. by Christian Joppke. 79 Journal of Modern History 658.

(2006) Two Cultures of Rights: The Quest for Inclusion and Participation in Modern America and Germany. Eds. Manfred Berg and Martin Geyer, H-German Online (July 28, 2006).

(2004) Challenging Ethnic Citizenship: German and Israeli Perspectives on Immigration. Eds. Daniel Levy and Yfaat Weiss, 38 International Migration Review 1258.

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Name Takeshi Akiba
Institutional
Affiliation
University of California, Berkeley
Country
Base
USA / Japan
Current
Position
Ph.D. Candidate
Teaching immigration law and policy, constitutional law and policy, comparative federalism
Research
Interests
constitutional structure, citizenship rights and globalization; free movement of people and citizenship
Selected
Publications
(2005) ‘Rights of Foreigners under the American Constitution’, The Waseda Journal of Social Sciences, [Japan], No.5.

(2005) ‘Comparative Study of the Concept of Citizenship’, Comparative Law Review, [Japan], Vol.39, No.1.

Other
Affiliation
Waseda University (Japan); Ishizaka Fellow, Japanese Business Federation (2001-2003)
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Name Francisco Alatorre
Institutional
Affiliation
Arizona State University
Country
Base
USA
Current
Position
Ph.D. Candidate
Teaching Research Methods (Mixed Methods Design); Qualitative Field Research Methodology; Seminar on Immigration: Family and Justice; Seminar on Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Justice; Introduction to Criminal Justice; Justice Theory
Research
Interests
Immigration and Social Justice (Policy and Evaluation); Latino Community Development (Policy and Evaluation); Ethnicity, Race, Gender, Stratification and Identity Crime relationship; Youth and Crime (Prevention Research); Latino/a Social Movements; Borderland Concerns (Militarization, Vigilante Movements, Socio-Legal; Construction of Fear; Bi-national Treaties between Mexico and the United States
Selected
Publications
Coming
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Name Kif Augustine-Adams
Institutional
Affiliation
J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University
Country
Base
USA
Current
Position
Professor of Law
Teaching gender, race, citizenship, particularly in LatinAmerica
Research
Interests
same as above
Selected
Publications
(2005) Considering the Rule of Law: A Step Back from Threats and Dangers,15(3) EXPERIENCE (American Bar Association magazine) 14

(2004) Book Review, Judging the Past in Unified Germany by A. James McAdams, 28(1) German Studies Review.(2004) The Plenary Power Doctrine after September 11, 38 UCDavis Law Review 701.

(2004) Book Review, Truth, Autonomy, and Speech: Feminist Theory and the First Amendment by Susan H. Williams, 14(9) The Law and Politics Book Review 732.

(2002) “With notice of the consequences”: Liberal Political Theory, Marriage, and Women’s Citizenship in the United States, 6:2 Citizenship Studies 5.

(2002) “She consents implicitly”: Women’s Citizenship, Marriage, and Liberal Political Theory in Late Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Argentina, 13:4 Journal of Women’s History 8.

(2000) Gendered States: Comparative Constructions of Citizenship and Nation, 41 Virginia Journal of International Law 93.

(2000) Marriage as Exile: Citizenship Laws and Women’s Exclusion/El Matrimonio Como Exilio: Las Leyes de Ciudadanoa y Exclusion Femenina in Exilios Femeninos 71 Pilar Cuder-Dominguez, ed., (in Spanish)

(1993) What is Just: The Rule of Law and Natural Law in the Trials of Former East German Border Guards, 29 Stanford Journal of International Law 272.

(1990) Foreigners, Foreign Property and the Fourth Amendment: United States v.Verdugo-Urquidez, 110 S. Ct. 1056, 13 Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 1037.

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Name Beth Baker-Cristales
Institutional
Affiliation
Anthropology Department and the Latin American Studies Program, California State University, Los Angeles
Country
Base
USA
Current
Position
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Associate Director of Latin American Studies
Teaching transnationalism and globalization, migration and cultural change, Latin America, indigenous peoples, applied anthropology
Research
Interests
transnationalizationof politics; the role of the state in globalization; migrant socialorganizing, hometown associations; migrant identities, race, class and ethnicity
Selected
Publications
(2004), Salvadoran Migration to Los Angeles: Redefining El Hermano Lejano, University Press of Florida.

(2004), “Salvadoran Transformations: Class Consciousness and Ethnic Identity in a Transnational Arena”, Latin American Perspectives, 31(5): 15-33.(1999), “Politics and Positionality in Fieldwork with Salvadorans in Los Angeles”, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 22(2): 120-128.

(2005), “Los austentes siempre presentes: inmigrantes salvadorenoscomo actores politicos transnacionalies”, a chapter in the editedvolume entitled La Transnacionalization de la Sociedad Centroamericana: Nuevos Retos Planteados a Partir de La Migration International, to be published by the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) – Programa El Salvador.

(Forthcoming), “States of Denial: International Migration, Trans-Nationalism and the State”, in Diapsoric Ruptures, an edited volume to be published by the Joint Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement, Toronto.

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Name Irene Bloemraad
Institutional
Affiliation
University of California, Berkeley
Country
Base
USA
Current
Position
Associate Professor, Sociology
Teaching citizenship, multiculturalism; political sociology; social movements; research methods & research design
Research
Interests
immigration, citizenship, multiculturalism; immigrants’ political and civic incorporation; diversity and democracy; immigration and integration policies
Selected
Publications
(2011) Rallying for Immigrant Rights.  Berkeley: University of California Press.  [co-edited with Kim Voss]

(2010) “Our Gratitude to Our Soldiers”: Military Spouses, Family Re-unification, and Postwar Immigration Reform.  Journal of Interdisciplinary History 41(1): 27-60. [with Phil Wolgin]

(2010) Does Immigration Erode Social Capital?The Conditional Effects of Immigration-Generated Diversity on Trust, Membership, and Participation across 19 Countries, 1981-2000.  Canadian Journal of Political Science 43(2): 319-347  [with Christel Kesler]

(2008) It’s a Family Affair: Inter-generational Mobilization in the Spring 2006 Protests.  American Behavioral Scientist 52(4): 507-532. [with Christine Trost]

(2008) Citizenship and Immigration: Multiculturalism, Assimilation, and Challenges to the Nation-State.  Annual Review of Sociology 34: 8.1-8.27.  [with A. Korteweg and G. Yurdakul]

(2008) Civic Hopes and Political Realities: Immigrants, Community Organizations, and Political Engagement. New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press.  [co-edited with Karthick Ramakrishnan]

(2006) Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada. University of California Press.

(2006) Citizenship Lessons from the Past: The Contours of Immigrant Naturalization in the Early Twentieth Century. Social Science Quarterly 87(5): 927-953.

Other Affiliations Scholar with the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
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Name Catherine Benoît
Institutional
Affiliation
Connecticut College
Country
Base
USA
Current
Position
Professor of Anthropology
Teaching Medical anthropology, Applied Anthropology, Anthropology of the Caribbean, Anthropology of Space and Place
Research
Interests
Border reinforcement, Migration, Transnationalism, Legal activism related to immigration issues, Immigration law making, European Overseas Departments, Caribbean
Selected
Publications
(2009) A. I. Barthélemy, C. Benoît et al. (editors) Cette France-Là vol. 1 06/05/2007 – 30/06/2008, Paris: Association Cette France-là, distributed by Éditions La Délcouverte. 448 p.

(2008) “St. Martin Change of Political Status: Inscribing Borders and Immigration Laws onto Geographical Space,” New West Indian Guide, (82) 3/4: 211-235.

(2007) “The Politics of Vodou: AIDS, Access to Health Care and the Use of Culture in Haiti,”, Anthropology in Action, (14) 3: 59-68.(2007) “Saint-Martin: Un nouveau droit des étrangers,” Plein Droit, 2007, 74: 17-20.

(2004) “Vivre avec le sida ou la drépanocytose : culture et géopolitique des itinéraires thérapeutiques des étrangers caraïbéens résidant à Saint-Martin,” Espace, Populations et Sociétés, Special Issue, “Les départements et territoires d’outre-mer.” 2: 265-279.

(2003) “Circuit de soins des enfants drépanocytaires à Saint-Martin/Sint Marteen (FWI/DWI): santé, migrations et exclusion sociale dans la Caraïbe,” La drépanocytose, au carrefour des identités. Regards croisés sur une maladie orpheline, A. Laine (ed.), Paris, Karthala : 115-140.

Other
Affiliation
Affiliate Researcher, Yale University, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition Chercheuse associée, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris – Centre d’études africaines Chercheuse associée, Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris – Département “Hommes, Natures, Sociétés”
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Name Elizabeth Heger Boyle
Institutional
Affiliation
Sociology Department, University of Minnesota
Country
Base
USA
Current
Position
Associate Professor of Sociology and Law
Teaching sociology of law, international law and culture, migration
Research
Interests
sociology of law, international and comparative law, human rights, migration, gender
Selected
Publications
Forthcoming in 2010 with Golden, Shannon and Yasin Garad. “Experiences of Somali Entrepreneurs: New Evidence from the Twin Cities.” Bildhaan: An International Journal of Somali Studies.

(2010) with Amelia Corl. “Law and Culture in Global Context: The Practice of Female Genital Cutting.” Annual Review of Law & Social Science6:14.1-14.21.

(2010) with Golden and Yasin Jama. “Achieving Success in Business: A Comparison of Somali- and American-Born Entrepreneurs in Minneapolis.” The CURA Reporter40(1-2):43-51.

(2009) with Ahmed Ali. “Culture, Structure, and the Refugee Experience in Somali Immigrant Family Transformation.” International Migration48(1):47-79.

(2009) with Minzee Kim. “International Human Rights Law, Global Economic Reforms, and Child Survival and Development Rights.” Law & Society Review 43(3):455-490.

(2009) “Young Refugees.” Pp. 89-94 in Youth and Young Adulthood: New Perspectives and Agendas, edited by Andy Furlong. New York: Routledge.

(2002) Female Genital Cutting: Cultural Conflict in the Global Community. Johns Hopkins University Press.

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Name Kitty Calavita
Institutional
Affiliation
Dept. of Criminology, Law and Society, UC Irvine
Country
Base
USA
Current
Position
Professor
Teaching law and inequality, sociology of law
Research
Interests
immigration policymaking, citizenship, socialexclusion, sociology of punishment / prisons
Selected
Publications
(2010) Invitation to Law & Society: An Introduction to the Study of Real Law, University of Chicago Press.(2010) (republished) Inside the State: The Bracero Program, Immigration and the INS, originally published in 1992 by Routledge – now available for downloading as an e-book.

(2007) ‘Immigration Law, Race, and Identity’, Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 3: 1-20.

(2006) ‘Collisions at the Intersection of Gender, Race, and Class: Enforcing the Chinese Exclusion Laws’, Law and Society Review, Vol. 40: 249-281

(2005) Immigrants at the Margins: Law, Race, and Social Exclusion in Southern Europe, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Name Ming Hsu Chen
Institutional
Affiliation
UC Berkeley School of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Policy PhD Program
Country
Base
USA
Current
Position
PhD Candidate
Teaching immigration, citizenship and multicultural theory, race and antidiscrimination, constitutional law
Research
Interests
immigration, citizenship and multicultural theory, race and antidiscrimination, constitutional law
Selected
Publications
(2006) ‘Deciding Asylum Claims: Preliminary Results’, 12 Georgetown Public Policy Review29(2004) ‘Two Wrongs Make a Right: Hybrid Claims of Discrimination’,79 NYU L. Rev.685.

(2001) with E.J. Dionne eds., Sacred Places, Civic Purposes: Should Government Help Faith-Based Charity?, Brookings Press.

Working papers:(2008) Minority Language Rights as Multiculturalism Policy in the US (Dissertation chapter presented at LSA Conference (Montreal, Canada), June 2008.

(2007) Who Migrates and Why: Plyler v. Doe in the Modern Era (Funded empirical research project presented at Warren Institute for Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity (Berkeley, CA), Labor and Employment Research Fund (Berkeley, CA) and LSA Summer Institute (Amherst, MA) May-July 2007.

(2006) Nation of Immigrants or New Civil Rights Movement?  (Working paper on parallels between 2005 and 1960s policies presented at Spotlight on Immigration Conference (Berkeley, CA), March 2006.

(2006) Alienated: Reworking the Racialization Thesis (Working paper on legal response to Arab Americans and Muslims post-9/11 presented at LatCrit XI Conference (Las Vegas, NV), October 2006.

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Name Avinoam Cohen
Institutional
Affiliation
Tel Aviv University
Country
Base
Israel
Current
Position
PhD Candidate and Meitar Research Fellow
Teaching Immigration law, immigrants in international law and international human rights law
Research
Interests
Migrant participation in migration regulation, drawing on the fields of immigration and membership, political theory, radical and deliberative democratic theory, civil society and transformative political activism.
Selected
Publications
Forthcoming (2010), ‘From Status to Agency: Defining Migrants’, 24(4) Georgetown Immigration Law Journal.

(2010) ‘Lone Children in the Shadow of Immigration Law: Considering Domestic Law in Light of International Human Rights Law’ in Children Rights and Israeli Law,Tamar Morag ed. (Hebrew).

Other
Affiliation
Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies
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Name Susan C. Bibler Coutin
Institutional
Affiliation
University of California at Irvine
Country
Base
USA
Current
Position
Professor
Teaching American sociolegal theory, comparative study of legal cultures, law, violence, and human rights, and naturalistic field research
Research
Interests
social, political, and legal activism surrounding immigration issues, particularly immigration from El Salvador to the United States
Selected
Publications
(2007) Nations of Emigrants: Shifting Boundaries of Citizenship in El Salvador and theUnited States.Ithaca: Cornell University Press.(2006) with Hernandez, Ester, “Remitting Subjects: Migrants, Money, and States”, Economy and Society35(2):185-208.(2006) with Yngvesson, Barbara “Backed by Papers: Undoing Persons, Histories, and Return”, American Ethnologist33(2):177-190

(2005) “Being en Route.” American Anthropologist107(2): 195-206.

(2005) “Contesting Criminality: IllegalImmigration and the Spatialization of Legality.” Theoretical  Criminology 9(1): 5-33.

(2003) “Cultural Logics of Belonging and Movement: Transnationalism, Naturalization, and U.S. Immigration Politics.”American Ethnologist 30(4):508-526.

(2002) with Bill Maurer and Barbara Yngvesson. “In theMirror: The Legitimation Work of Globalization.” Law and Social Inquiry27(4):801-843. (Awarded the 2002 Law and Society Association best article prize.)

(2001) “The Oppressed, the Suspect, and theCitizen: Subjectivity in Competing Accounts of Political Violence.” Lawand Social Inquiry 26(1):63-94.

(2000) Legalizing Moves: Salvadoran Immigrants’ Struggle for U.S. Residency. University of Michigan Press.

(1993) The Culture of Protest: Religious Activismand the U.S. Sanctuary Movement. Boulder: Westview Press.

Other
Affiliation
Centre in Law, Society and Culture
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Name Caroline Danielson
Institutional
Affiliation
Welfare Policy Research Project, University of California Office of the President
Country
Base
USA
Current
Position
Research Analyst
Research
Interests
welfare policy, citizenship
Selected
Publications
(2004) with Steven Haider, Robert Schoeni, and Yuhua Bao, ‘Immigrants, welfare reform, and the economy’, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 23(4): 745-764.
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Name Marie-Benedicte Dembour
Institutional
Affiliation
University of Sussex
Country
Base
United Kingdom
Current
Position
Professor of Law and Anthropology
Teaching Human Rights in Theory and Practice; Legal and Policy Aspects of Migration; Migration under the European Convention on Human Rights
Research
Interests
European Court of Human Rights’ case law concerning migrants; history of the legal position of foreign students from poor countries to European universities
Selected
Publications
(2010) ‘What are human rights? Four schools of thought’, 32(1) Human Rights Quarterly, 1-20.(2009) ‘Postcolonial Denial: Why the European Court of Human Rights Finds it so Difficult to Acknowledge Racism’, in Kamari Clarke and Mark Goodale (eds) Mirrors of Justice: Law and Power in the Post-Cold War Era. New York: Cambridge University Press.(2009) ‘In the Name of the Rule of Law: The European Court of Human Rights’ Silencing of Racism’, in Gurminder K. Bhambra and Robbie Shilliams (eds) Silencing Human Rights: Critical Engagements with a Contested Project. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 184-202.

(2007) Paths to International Justice: Social and Legal Perspectives, coedited with Tobias Kelly, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Studies in Law and Society Series).

(2007) ‘Plaidoyer pour des droits humains universalistes mais non universels – Séance 1: Droit et altérité’, in Etudier et enseigner le droit : hier, aujourd’hui et demain. Mélanges Jacques Vanderlinden (Université de Moncton), pp. 15-38.

(2006) Who Believes in Human Rights? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

(2003) ‘Human Rights Law and National Sovereignty in Collusion: The Plight of Quasi-Nationals at Strasbourg’, Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, 21 (1), pp. 63-98.

(2002) ‘Etrangers ou quasi-nationaux? Le choix des droits de l’homme [Observations sous l'arrêt Ezzouhdi]‘, Revue trimestrielle des droits de l’homme, 52, pp. 963-982.

(2001) Culture and Rights: Anthropological Perspectives, coedited with Jane Cowan and Richard Wilson, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Name Ingrid Eagly
Institutional
Affiliation
UCLA School of Law
Country
Base
USA
Current
Position
Acting Professor of Law
Teaching Evidence, Criminal Defense
Research
Interests
Undocumented migration, criminal prosecution of immigration, the intersection of the criminal and immigration systems
Selected
Publications
(2011) Local Immigration Prosecution: A Study of Arizona Before SB 1070, 58 UCLA L. Rev. 1749.(2010) Prosecuting Immigration, Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 104, Issue 4.
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Name Jill E. Family
Institutional
Affiliation
Widener University School of Law
Country
Base
USA
Current
Position
Associate Professor of Law
Research
Interests
adjudication of immigration cases, judicial review, immigration politics and policy
Selected
Publications
(2008) Threats to the Future of the Immigration Class Action, 27 WASH. U. J.L. & POL’Y71.(2008) ‘Stripping Judicial Review during Immigration Reform: The Certificate of Reviewability, 8 NEV. L.J.499.(2005) Another Limit on Federal Court Jurisdiction? Immigrant Access to Class-Wide Injunctive Relief, 53 CLEV. ST. L. REV. 11.
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Name Ruben J. Garcia
Institutional
Affiliation
California Western School of Law, San Diego
Country
Base
USA
Current
Position
Assistant Professor
Teaching labor law, employment law, international labor and employment law, legal ethics
Research
Interests
workers(immigrants, women, guestworkers, global workers, people of color,union members) at the intersections of domestic and internationallabor, employment and immigration laws
Selected
Publications
(2003) “Transnationalism as a Social Movement Strategy: Actors, Institutions and International Labor Standards”, 10 U.C. Davis Journal of International Law and Policy1.(2003) “Ghost Workers in an Interconnected World: Going Beyond the Dichotomies of Domestic Immigration and Labor Laws,” 36 Michigan Journal of Law Reform737.(2002) “New Voices at Work: Race and Gender Identity Caucuses in the U.S. Labor Movement”, 54 Hastings Law Journal79.

(2003) “Across the Borders: Immigrant Status and Identity in Law and LatCrit Theory”, 55 Florida Law Review511.

(1995) “Critical Race Theory and Proposition 187: The Racial Politics of Immigration Law”, 17 Chicano-Latino Law Review 118, reprinted in The Latino/A Condition: A Critical Reader 118 (Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic eds., NYU Press, 1998).

Other
Affiliation
Labor and Employment Relations Association
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Name Tina Gehrig
Institutional
Affiliation
University of California, Irvine
Country
Base
USA and Switzerland
Current
Position
Ph.D. Candidate
Teaching N/A
Research
Interests
Refugees, asylum policies in Germany and Europe, Afghanistan
Selected
Publications
(2004) “The Afghan Experience of Asylum in Germany. Towards an Anthropology of Legal Categories” in: Tsantsa, [Journal of the Swiss Ethnological Society], 9: 72-80.(2003) with Alessandro Monsutti, “Territoires, flux et représentations de l’exil afghan: le cas des Hazaras et des Kaboulis” in: A Contrario1(1): 61-78.(2003) “At the Threshold of the Nation-State: German Asylum Policies and Legal Processes of Exclusion” in: MESS, [Mediterranean Ethnological Summer School] 5:195-209.
Other
Affiliation
Institut d’Ethnologie, Universite de Neuchatel, Switzerland (MA degree); 2005-2006 CASS-postdoctoral fellow at the Swiss Parliament.
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Name Alessandro De Giorgi
Institutional
Affiliation
Department of Justice Studies, San José State University
Country
Base
USA
Current
Position
Assistant Professor
Teaching Punishment, Deviance, Immigration, Marxist Theory
Research
Interests
Same as above
Selected
Publications
(2009) “The U.S. Penal Experiment”, in S. Palidda (ed), Criminalization and Victimization of Migrants in Europe. Bruxelles: CRIMPREV Workpackage 3, (pp. 57-66).(2007) “Toward a Political Economy of Post-Fordist Punishment”, Critical Criminology, 15, 243-265.(2006) Rethinking the Political Economy of Punishment. Perspectives on Post-Fordism and Penal Politics. Aldershot: Ashgate.

(2006) El gobierno de la excedencia. Postfordismo y control de la multitud. Madrid: Traficantes de Suenos.

(2005) Tolerancia cero. Estrategias y pràcticas the la sociedad de control. Barcelona: Virus Editorial.

Reviews:

(2008) Golden Gulag. by Christian Joppke. 79 Critical Criminology 16.

(2009) Big Prisons Big Dreams. by Michael J. Lynch, Punishment & Society, 11.

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Name Shannon Gleeson
Institutional
Affiliation
University of California – Santa Cruz, Latin American and Latino Studies Department
Country
Base
USA
Current
Position
Assistant Professor
Teaching Latino Civic Engagement, Population Dynamics, Race, Class, and Gender, Latinos & Organized Labor in the U.S.
Research
Interests
social stratification, labor and social policy, immigrant incorporation, mixed-methods research
Selected
Publications
(2010) “Labor Rights for All? The Role of Undocumented Immigrant Status for Worker Claims-Making” Law & Social Inquiry, Vol. 35:3, 561-602.(2010) “Re-Conceptualizing the Economic Integration of Immigrants: A Comparison of the Mexican and Vietnamese.” Latino Studies, Vol. 8:1, 69-92.(2009) “From Rights to Claims: The Role of Civil Society in Making Rights Real for Vulnerable Workers.” Law and Society Review. Vol. 43:3, 669-700.

(2008) “Organizing for Latino Immigrant Rights in two U.S. Cities: The Case of San Jose and Houston”, In Civic Hopes and Political Realities: Immigrants, Community Organizations and Political Engagement. Edited by S. Karthick Ramakrishnan and Irene Bloemraad. New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press.Paret, Marcel, and Shannon Gleeson.

(2006) “International Migration in Macro-Stratification Perspective: Bringing Power Back In” Berkeley Journal of Sociology. Vol. 50: Power.

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Name Iker Barbero Gonzalez
Institutional
Affiliation
University of the Basque country
Country
Base
Basque Country- Spain
Current
Position
Ph.D. Researcher
Teaching Immigration, citizenship and democracy (postgrad)
Research
Interests
citizenship struggles, undocumented immigrants, alternative Law
Selected
Publications
(2005) “The Social Participation of Immigrants. A Key Ingredient in the Intercultural Management of Cultural Diversity” in: Edmud Chia y James Heising (Editors) A Longing for Peace. The Challenge of a multicultural, multireligious world, Wipf and Stock Publishers(2009) with Cristina Blanco (Editors) Pautas de asentamiento de la población inmigrante: implicaciones y retos socio-jurídicos. Colección Derecho y sociedad. Dyckinson: Madrid
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Name Ilse Griek
Institutional
Affiliation
Faculty of Law, Tilburg University
Country
Base
The Netherlands
Current
Position
Ph.D. Candidate
Research
Interests
Rule of law and legal pluralism in refugee camps, alternative dispute resolution, human rights, international refugee policy
Selected
Publications
(2009) Reprint of “Traditional Systems of Justice in Refugee Camps: Cause for Concern?” in Pattanaik, Manoj Kumar (editor), Human Rights of Migrants: Issues and Perspectives. Hyderabad, India: ICFAI Books, ICFAI University Press.(2007) “Traditional Systems of Justice in Refugee Camps: Cause for Concern?” in Mukherjee, Debashree (editor) Refugee Rights and Issues: Concepts and Country Experiences. Hyderabad, India: ICFAIBooks, ICFAI University Press.
Other
Affiliations
Visiting scholar at the Pedro Arrupe Institute of Human Rights, University of Deusto, Spain (2008-2009)
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Name Maria João Guia
Institutional
Affiliation
Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra
Country
Base
Portugal
Current
Position
PhD Candidate
Teaching Human Trafficking, Immigration and Crime
Research
Interests
Immigration and Crime; Immigration and violent crime; Crimmigration; Human Trafficking; Terrorism; Securitization; Citizenship; Shaw Marriages; Prison and inmates; Acces to Law and Justice; Irregular immigration
Selected
Publications
Forthcoming.
Other affiliation CINETS – Crimmigration Control International Net of Studies
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Name Rebecca Hamlin
Institutional
Affiliation
Grinnell College
Country
Base
USA
Current
Position
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Teaching Political science, constitutional law, politics of immigration
Research
Interests
constitutional law (American and Comparative), comparative migration policy (in particular US, Canada, Australia), international law and its implementation in domestic courts, refugee policy and asylum law
Selected
Publications
Forthcoming
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Name Jeff Handmaker
Institutional
Affiliation
International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of Erasmus University
Country
Base
The Netherlands
Current
Position
Senior Lecturer in Law, Human Rights and Development
Teaching international law, state and non-state relations, international law, social justice, realising human rights, refugee law and policy
Research
Interests
civil society advocacy and policy development, the position of Palestinian refugees in international law, xeno-racism, access to justice
Selected
Publications
(2011) with Klaaren, J.  and Dugard, J. (eds.) Public Interest Litigation in South Africa: Special Issue of the South African Journal on Human Rights, Johannesburg: Juta. Open Access.

(2010) with Berkhout, R. (eds) Mobilising Social Justice in South Africa: Perspectives from Researchers and Practitioners, Pretoria: Pretoria University Law Press.

(2009) Advocating for Accountability: Civic-State Interactions to Protect Refugees in South Africa, Vol. 33 School of Human Rights Research Series, Antwerp: Intersentia. Open Access.

(2008) with De la Hunt, L. and Klaaren, J. (eds) Advancing Refugee Protection in South Africa, Volume 2, Human Rights in Context Series, Berghahn: Oxford, 2008.

(2007) ‘Advocating accountability: the forming of a refugee rights discourse in South Africa’, Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights Volume 25, No. 1, March 2007, pp. 53-71.

(2005) with DeGabriele, J., ‘Justice for the people: Strengthening primary justice in Malawi’, African Human Rights Law Journal, vol. 5(1), 148-170. Open Access.

(2003) ‘Seeking justice, guaranteeing protection and ensuring due process: addressing the tensions between exclusion from refugee protection and the principle of universal jurisdiction’, Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, Vol. 21(4), 677-695.

(2001) ‘No Easy Walk: Advancing Refugee Protection in South Africa’, Africa Today, Vol. 48(3), 91-113.

(2001) with J Parsley, ‘Migration, Refugees and Racism in South Africa‘, Refuge, Vol. 20(1), 40-51. Open Access.

(1999) ‘Who Determines Policy? Promoting the Right of Asylum in South Africa’, International Journal of Refugee Law, Vol. 11(2), 290-209.

Other
Affiliations
Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Chair, 3R Foundation
Member of the Legal Support Network, Badil Resource Center on Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights
Member, Migration and Human Security Research Cluster, ISS
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Name Valerie F. Hunt
Institutional
Affiliation
Department of Political Science, Southern Methodist University
Country
Base
USA
Current
Position
Assistant Professor
Teaching introduction to american government and politics, media and politics, women and politics
Research
Interests
publicattitudes, public opinion and policy process ethics, human rights, andU.S. immigration policy ethics, public attitudes and biomedicalresearch policy
Selected
Publications
(2004) “TheQuestionable Place of Human Rights in U.S. Immigration Policy After 9/11: Previous Policy and Present Public Attitudes.” Anguiano, MariaEugenia y Rafael Alarcon (eds). Migracion Internacional y Derechos Humanos: Los Retos del Nuevo Siglo. El Colegio de la Frontera Norte.

(2003) “Is there a Place for Human Rights in U.S. Immigration Policy in the Wake of 9/11?” Princeton Political Quarterly; Issue in Equality, Morality and Justice; Spring 2003; pp.11-15.

(2002) “The Multiple and Changing Goals of U.S. Immigration Reform: A Comparison of House and Senate Activity, 1947-1993.” In Policy Dynamics, ed. Frank Baumgartner and Bryan D. Jones. University of Chicago Press.

Work in progress, Courts, Congress and the Politics of U.S. Immigration Policy Reform

Work in progress, Who Influences Whom in U.S. Genetics Research Policy

Work in progress, Elite and Mass Attitudes on Discourse of Genetics Research

Work in progress, U.S. Public Attitudes about Civil Rights and Immigrant Rights in the Wake of 9/11

Other
Affiliation
American Political Science Association, Midwest Political Science Association
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Name Jeffrey Kahn
Institutional
Affiliation
Department of Anthropology, The University of Chicago
Country
Base
USA
Current
Position
PhD candidate
Teaching
Research
Interests
Administrative Law, Immigration Law, Foreign Affairs Law, Constitutional Law, Anthropology of the State, Law and Culture, Legal Construction of Border Spaces, Law and Social Movements (specifically legal campaigns involving Haitian asylum seekers in the United States)
Selected
Publications
2011. “Policing ‘Evil’: State-sponsored Witch-hunting in the People’s Republic of Bénin,” Journal of Religion in Africa 41: 4-34.
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Name Leila Kawar
Institutional
Affiliation
Bates College
Country
Base
USA
Current
Position
Assistant Professor
Teaching politics of immigration and civil liberties, the politics of administrative law and immigration, law and society
Research
Interests
comparative immigration and asylum politics
Selected
Publications
Forthcoming in 2011 “Legal Mobilization on the Terrain of the State: Immigrant Rights Practice in Two National Legal Fields.”, Law & Social Inquiry,Vol. 36(2).(2010) “Legality and [Dis]membership: Removal of Citizenship and the Creation of ‘Virtual Immigrants’ ”, Citizenship Studies, Vol.14(5).
Other
Affiliation
American Political Science Association, Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee
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Name Jonathan Klaaren
Institutional
Affiliation
School of Law, University of the Witwatersrand
Country
Base
South Africa
Current
Position
Professor of Law
Teaching immigration, refugees, citizenship, regulatory studies, sociolegal, legal history, human rights
Research
Interests
historyof regulation of movement, 1897-1937; current institutions of refugeeprotection, immigration and citizenship in South Africa
Selected
Publications
(2001) with J Ramji, ‘Inside Illegality: Migration Policing in South Africa after Apartheid’, 48 Africa Today 35-47.(1998) ‘Non-Citizens and Equality: Larbi-Odam v MEC for Education (North-West Province), 14 South African Journal on Human Rights284-95.(1996) ‘So Far Not So Good: An Analysis of Immigration Decisions Under the Interim Constitution’, 12 South African Journal on Human Rights605-16.(2001) ‘Contested Citizenship in South Africa’, in P Andrews and S Ellmann (eds), The Post-Apartheid Constitutions: Perspectives on South Africa’s Basic Law, Wits University Press and Ohio University Press, 304-325.

(2001) ‘Can Lessons Learned Migrate From Kosovo to Africa? Comparing the Evaluations of Two Refugee Crises’, in E Sidiropoulos (ed), A Continent Apart: Kosovo, Africa, and Humanitarian Intervention, South African Institute of International Affairs, 231-242.

(2000) ‘Post-Apartheid Citizenship in South Africa’ in A Aleinikoff (ed), From Migrants to Citizens: Membership in a Changing World, Brookings Institution Press, 221-252.

(1998) ‘Immigration Law and the South African Constitution’ in J Crush (ed) Beyond Control: Immigration and Human Rights in a Democratic South Africa IDASA, 55-78.

(2004) with B Rutinwa, ‘Towards the Harmonization of Immigration andRefugee Law in SADC’, IDASA, 1-151, edited by Jonathan Crush, Southern African Migration Project.

(2004) with E Algotsson ‘Policing Migration: Immigration Enforcement andHuman Rights in South Africa’, Southern African Migration Project, Migration Policy Brief No. 14 June 2004, 1-12.

(2002) with T Roux, ‘Regulation Review: Notes Towards an Appropriate South African Model’, GTZ Working Paper.

(2000) editor, ‘South African Human Rights Commission Lindela: At the Crossroads for Detention and Repatriation’, December 2000, 1-83.

(1999) ‘South African Human Rights Commission Illegal? Report on the Arrestand Detention of Persons in terms of the Aliens Control Act’, March 1999, 1-56.

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Name Dominik Kohlhagen
Institutional
Affiliation
Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Juridique de Paris (LAJP), Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Country
Base
France and United Kingdom
Current
Position
Ph.D. Candidate
Teaching anthropology of law
Research
Interests
legal and anthropological issues related to migration from sub-Saharan Africa; local Law an civil society in sub-Saharan Africa
Selected
Publications
(2005) “Les Africains et l’Institution de la Justice”, Politique Africaine, 98, p.203-205.Forthcoming: “La mondialisation par le bas. Les nouveaux nomades de l’économie souterraine”, to be published in Cahiers d’Anthropologie du droit, 2005.(2005) “The Legal World of ‘Economic Migrants’: Experiences of Cameroonians in Berlin”, contribution to the Birkbeck Anthropology of Law Workshop, 25-27 April 2005, London.

(2005) “State Law and Local Law in Sub-Saharan Africa”, Centre Francais d’Etudes Ethiopiennes (CFEE), Addis Ababa, 19 p. (14 p. complementary bibliography).

Other
Affiliation
AERRIM (Francophone research network on migration studies) and TERRA (French research program on asylum and forced migration)
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Name Robert Koulish
Institutional
Affiliation
Philadelphia University
Country
Base
USA
Current
Position
Associate Professor of Law and Society
Teaching Law and Society; Immigration Politics, Media and Technology and Society
Research
Interests
privatization of immigration control
Selected
Publications
(2008) “Blackwater and the Privatization of Immigration Control” Saint Thomas Law Review, symposium for LatCritXII).(2007) “Profit, Plenary Powers and Militarization: A ‘Perfect Storm’ Scenario for Immigration Control,” 3 Journal Migration and Refugee Issues(No.4).(2007) “Privatizing the Leviathan Immigration State” MR-zine(Monthly Review online), (July 20, 2007).(1998) “Citizenship Service Learning: Becoming Citizens by Assisting Immigrants,” PS: Political Science and Politics.

(1995) “Civil Rights Violations in a South Texas Border Community,” 4 Rio Bravo: A Bilingual Journal of International Studies.

(1995) “U.S. Immigration Authorities and Border Communities,” Migration World Magazine. (Sept-Oct. 1995).

(1994) “Human and Civil Rights Abuses at the U.S.-Mexico-Border,” 3 Poverty and Race.

(1994) “U.S. Immigration Authorities and Victims of Human and Civil Rights Abuses: The Border Interaction Project Study of South Tucson, Arizona, and South Texas,” University of Arizona Mexican American Studies and Research Center Working Paper Series No. 20. (June 1994).

(1992) “Systemic Deterrence Against Prospective Asylum Seekers: A Study of a South Texas Immigration District,” 19 New York University Journal of Law and Social Change.

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Name Chulwoo Lee
Institutional
Affiliation
Yonsei Law School, Yonsei University
Country
Base
Republic of Korea
Current
Position
Professor of Law
Teaching sociology of law, citizenship and migration, law and society in Asia
Research
Interests
law and social theory; social history of law; citizenship, nationality, and nationalism
Selected
Publications
(2010) “South Korea: The Transformation of Citizenship and the State‐Nation Nexus,” Journal of Contemporary Asia40(2): 230‐251.(2010) “The Treatment of Stateless Persons and the Reduction of Statelessness: Policy Suggestions for the Republic of Korea,” with In Seop Chung, Ho Taeg Lee and Jung Hae Park, Korea Review of International Studies13(1): 7‐30.(2010) “Multiculturalism, Nationalism and the Legal Institutionalization of Belonging [in Korean],” Jisik eui jipyeong[Orbis Sapientiae] 8: 71‐95.

(2009) “The Rule of Law and Forms of Power: Theorizing the Socio‐Cultural Foundations of the Rule of Law in Korea,” Korea Journal49(4): 5‐28.

(2008) “Unity and Opposition between Territoriality and Peopleness: The Dialectics of the Political Rights of External Citizens [in Korean],” Beop gwa sahoe [Korean Journal of Law and Society] 34: 271‐296.

(2008) “The Derritorialization and Reterritorialization of Sovereignty: The Logic of Dual Nationality [in Korean],” Hanguk sahoehak [Korean Journal of Sociology] 42(1): 27‐61.

(2003) ”‘Us’ and ‘Them’ in Korean Law: The Creation, Accommodation and Exclusion of Outsiders in South Korea,” in Arthur Rosett, Lucie Cheng and Margaret Y. K. Woo, eds., East Asian Law – Universal Norms and Local Cultures, London: Routledge Curzon.

(1999) ʺModernity, Legality, and Power in Korea Under Japanese Rule,” in Gi‐Wook Shin and Michael Robinson, eds., Colonial Modernity in Korea, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center.

Other
Affiliation
Garvey, Schubert & Barer Visiting Professor of Asian Law, University of Washington School of Law (January‐June 2011)
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Name Jamie Longazel
Institutional
Affiliation
American Bar Foundation / University of Delaware
Country
Base
USA
Current
Position
Doctoral Fellow / Ph.D. Candidate
Teaching Law and Society; Deviance, Crime, and Justice; Social Problems
Research
Interests
subnational immigration law; immigration and communities; crime and justice; race and ethnicity
Selected
Publications
Forthcoming in 2010 with Benjamin Fleury-Steiner, “Exploiting Borders: Racism and the Political Economy of Local Backlash Against Undocumented Immigrants.” Chicana/o Latina/o Law Review.(2010) with Fleury-Steiner, Benjamin “Neoliberalism, Community Development, and Anti-Immigrant Backlash in Hazleton, Pennsylvania.” in Varsanyi, Monica, Taking Local Control: Immigration Policy Activism in U.S. Cities and States. Stanford University Press.
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Name Laura Macia
Institutional
Affiliation
University of Pittsburgh
Country
Base
USA
Current
Position
PhD Candidate and Teaching Fellow
Teaching coming.
Research
Interests
transnational migrants, dispute processing, Latinos
Selected
Publications
Coming.
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Name M. Isabel Medina
Institutional
Affiliation
Loyola University, New Orleans
Country
Base
USA
Current
Position
Ferris Family Professor of Law
Teaching constitutional law, immigration law, employment discrimination, criminal law
Research
Interests
intersection of constitutional law and immigration law; gender
Selected
Publications
(2008) “Reforming Criminal Indigent Defense in Louisiana-An Introduction to the Symposium and a Brief Exploration of Criminal Indigent Defense and its Relationship to Immigrant Indigent Defense” 9 Loyola Journal of Public Interest Law111.(2008) “Exploring the Use of the Word ‘Citizen’ in Writings on the Fourth Amendment,” 83 Indiana Law Journal1557.(2008) “Ruminations on the Fourth Amendment, Case Law, Commentary and the Word ‘Citizen,’” 11 Harvard Latino Law Review189.(2007) “Wal-Mart, Immigrant Workers and the U.S. Government – A Case of Split Personality?,” 39 Connecticut Law Review1443-1460.

(2007) “At the Border: What Tres Mujeres Tell Us About Walls and Fences,” 10 The Journal of Gender, Race & Justice, A Journal of the University of Iowa College of Law 245-267.

(2004) “Real Differences and Stereotypes – Two visions of gender, citizenship and international law,” 7 New York City Law Review 315-356 (Symposium in honor of the Hon. Ruth Bader Ginsburg).

(2004) “Gender in the Constitutions of Hellas and the United States”, Efarmoges Dimosiou Dikaiou (Applications of Public Law – greek review of public law) 17, p. 371.

(2004) “Of Constitutional Amendments, Human Rights and Same-Sex Marriages”, 64 Louisiana Law Review 459-75.

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Name Cecilia Menjívar
Institutional
Affiliation
Department of Sociology, Arizona State University
Country
Base
USA
Current
Position
Professor
Teaching migration, immigration, immigrant families
Research
Interests
effects of the law in different spheres of immigrant life—family, religion, church, communities, artistic expression; effects of migration on those who stay
Selected
Publications
(2009) with Leisy Abrego. “Parents and Children across Borders: Legal Instability and Intergenerational Relations in Guatemalan and Salvadoran Families.” Pp. 160-189 in Across Generations: Immigrant Families in America, edited by Nancy Foner. New York: New York University Press.

(2009) with Sang Kil and Roxanne Doty. Pp. 297-312 in “Securing Borders: Patriotism, Vigilantism and the Brutalization of the US American Public.” In Immigration, Crime, and Justice, edited by William F. McDonald. Bingley, UK: Emerald/JAI Press.

(2008) “Educational Hopes, Documented Dreams: Guatemalan and Salvadoran Immigrants’ Legality and Educational Prospects.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 620 (1): 177-193

(2006) “Liminal Legality: Salvadoran and Guatemalan Immigrants’ Lives in the United States.” American Journal of Sociology, 111 (4): 999-1037.

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Name Sarah J. Morando
Institutional
Affiliation
University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Sociology
Country
Base
USA
Current
Position
PhD Candidate
Teaching International Migration, Introductory Sociology, Social Psychology, Sociology of Emotions
Research
Interests
International Migration, Sociology of Law, Employment/Work, Race and Ethnicity, Gender
Selected
Publications
Forthcoming
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Name Hiroshi Motomura
Institutional
Affiliation
University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law
Country
Base
USA
Current
Position
Professor of Law
Teaching Immigration Law, Immigrants’ Rights
Research
Interests
undocumented migration; immigration law and policy; citizenship; constitutional aspects of immigration law
Selected
Publications
(2006) Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States (Oxford University Press 2006) (paperback 2007)(2008) Immigration and Citizenship: Process and Policy (Thomson West 6th ed.)(2007) with T. Alexander Aleinikoff, David A. Martin & Maryellen Fullerton, Forced Migration: Law and Policy (Thomson West).

(2007) with David A. Martin, T. Alexander Aleinikoff & Maryellen Fullerton, Immigration Outside the Law, 108 Columbia Law Review 2037

(2008)Choosing Immigrants, Making Citizens, 59 Stanford Law Review857.

(2006) Immigration Law and Federal Court Jurisdiction Through the Lens of Habeas Corpus, 91 Cornell Law Review 459

(2000) Judicial Review in Immigration Cases After AADC: Lessons From Civil Procedure, 14 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 385

(1999) Federalism, International Human Rights, and Immigration Exceptionalism, 70 University of Colorado Law Review 1361

(1997) Whose Immigration Law?: Citizens, Aliens, and the Constitution, 97 Columbia Law Review 1567 (review essay)

(1996) Whose Alien Nation?: Two Models of Constitutional Immigration Law, 94 Michigan Law Review 1927 (review essay)

(1995) The Family and Immigration: A Roadmap for the Ruritanian Lawmaker, 43 American Journal of Comparative Law 511.

(1994) Immigration and Alienage, Federalism and Proposition 187, 35 Virginia Journal of International Law 201.

(1993) Haitian Asylum Seekers: Interdiction and Immigrants’ Rights, 26 Cornell International Law Journal 695.

(1992) The Curious Evolution of Immigration Law: Procedural Surrogates for Substantive Constitutional Rights, 92 Columbia Law Review 1625.

(1990) Immigration Law After a Century of Plenary Power: Phantom Constitutional Norms and Statutory Interpretation, 100 The Yale Law Journal 545.

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Name Miki Nagashima
Institutional
Affiliation
School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University
Country
Base
Japan
Current
Position
Ph.D. Candidate and Research Associate
Teaching refugee law
Research
Interests
gender-based persecution, IDPs issues, refugee policy studies
Selected
Publications
(the following publications are all in Japanese)(2003) ‘Transfiguration of the right of asylum from the perspective of FC/FGM: Kassinga case in United States

(1996)’, Waseda Seiji Koho Kenkyu(Waseda Journal of Political Science and Public Law), no. 72, Waseda, April 2003, p.189-216.

(2003) ‘Allotment system in Eritrea and Gender-relatedissues in the re-integration process of reternees: JEN’s research basedon interview survey in Gash-Barka area’, Waseda Seiji Koho Kenkyu, no. 74, Waseda, December 2003, p.437-466.

(2004) ‘The lawmaking process of anti-FGM law in Sudan”, Waseda Seiji Koho Kenkyu, no. 75, Waseda, June 2004, p.493-421.

(2004) with Ishikawa, E, ‘Establishment of social welfare for refugees’, Shimin ga Trukuru Seisaku-chosa Kai (Civil Policy Study Group), n. 36, August 2004, p.30-37.

(2004) ‘New refugee protection area: gender-based persecution’, Hogaku Seminar (Law seminar), no.600, December 2004, p.52-55.

(2004) ‘Protection of Internally Displaced Persons’, Waseda Seiji Koho Kenkyu, no. 77, Waseda, December 2004, p.167-193.

Other
Affiliation
Fellow, Japan Association for Refugees (JAR) and Chief Secretariat, TICAD Civil Society Forum Japan
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Name Suzanne Oboler
Institutional
Affiliation
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University New York
Country
Base
USA
Current
Position
Professor, Latin American and Latina/o Studies
Teaching race and immigration in the Americas; Latino/as in the US; citizenship and belonging; Latin American studies (Peru and Brazil)
Research
Interests
Latino/as in the US; Race, immigration, citizenship and belonging; black-latino relations
Selected
Publications
Forthcoming in 2011 with Deena J. González, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latino/as, Politics and Law, 2 Volumes, 1200 pgs. New York: Oxford University Press.

In press, Behind Bars: Latino/as and Prisons, New York: Palgrave Press, (December 2009).

In press, “The Ironies of History: Puerto Rico’s Status and the Nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor”, American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy, 2009 – 2010.

(2008) With Anani Dzidzienyo, “Race, Social Justice, and the Law in the Americas: Redefining the Terms of the Debate”, Latin American Studies Association, Forum. Vol XXXIX(1).

(2006) Latinos and Citizenship: The Dilemma of Belonging, New York: Palgrave Press.

(2005) with Deena J. González, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States, 4 Volumes, 2334 pgs., New York: Oxford University Press.

(1995) Ethnic Labels/Latino Lives: Identity and the Politics of (Re)Presentation in the United States, University of Minnesota Press.

Other
Affiliation
Editor, Latino Studies
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Name Nicola Piper
Institutional
Affiliation
Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute at Freiburg University
Country
Base
Germany
Current
Position
Senior Research Fellow
Teaching none currently (next year maybe one module on political mobilisation of migrants)
Research
Interests
migration governance, migrant rights, transnational advocacy networks, migrant political mobilisation
Selected
Publications
Bastia, T., Piper, N. and Prieto-Carron, M. (eds) (Special Issue in press) ‘Geographies of Migration, Geographies of Justice, Migration, intersectionality and human rights’, in: Environment and Planning D (all papers accepted, publication by mid- 2011)

Piper, N. and Amber, F. (eds) (Special Issue in press) ‘Human Rights of Migrant Women’, in: Diversities – International Journal on Multicultural Societies(to be published in March 2011)

Grugel, J.B. and Piper, N. (in press) ‘Global governance, economic migration and the difficulties of social activism’, in: International Sociology(manuscript accepted, forthcoming in vol. 26, issue 4)

Hujo, K. and Piper, N. (eds) (2010) South-South Migration: Implications for Social Policy and Development, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Piper, N. (2010) ‘All Quiet on the Eastern Front? – Temporary contract migration in Asia revisited from a development perspective’, in: Policy and Society (special issue on ‘Guest Worker Programs: Friend or Foe of an Integrated Immigration Policy’, guest-edited by Patty Lenard and Christine Straehle), vol. 90, pp. 1-13

Piper, N. (2010) ‘Temporary Economic Migration and Rights Activism – an organisational perspective’, in: Ethnic and Racial Studies, Special Issue on Mobilization of Migrants and Minorities, guest-edited by John Solomos and Davide Peron, issue no. 1, pp. 1-33

Piper, N. (2009) ‘Temporary migration and political remittances: the role of advocacy networks in the transnationalisation of human rights’, in: European Journal of Asian Studies, Special Issue on Migration and Democracy, guest-edited by Jürgen Rüland, Stefan Rother, and Christl Kessler, vol. 8(2): 215-243

Piper, N (ed) (2009) ‘Rethinking the Migration-Development Nexus (Special Issue) – Bringing marginalized visions and actors to the fore’, in: Population, Space and Place, vol. 15, no. 2

Grugel, J.B. and Piper, N. (2009) ‘Do rights promote development?’, in: Global Social Policy , vol. 9(1): 79-98

Piper, N. (2008) ‘Feminisation of Migration and the Social Dimensions of development: The Asian Case’, in: Third World Quarterly, vol. 29(7): 1287-1303

Piper, N. (2008) ‘The ‘Migration-Development Nexus’ Revisited from a Rights Perspective’, in: Journal of Human Rights vol. 7: 1-18

Piper, N. (ed) (2008) New Perspectives on Gender and Migration – Rights, Entitlements and Livelihoods, London: Routledge

Grugel, J.B. and Piper, N. (2007) Critical Perspectives on Global Governance: Rights and Regulation in Governing Regimes, London: Routledge

Piper, N. and Ford, M. (eds) (2006) ‘Migrant NGOs and Labor Unions: A Partnership in Progress?’, Special Issue of Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, vol. 14, no. 9

Piper, N. (2005) ‘Transnational Politics and the Organising of Migrant Labour in Southeast Asia – NGO and Trade Union Perspectives’, in: Asia-Pacific Population Journal, vol. 20(3): 87-110

Piper, N. and Uhlin, A. (eds) (2004) Transnational Activism in Asia – Problems of Power and Democracy, London: Routledge

Other
Affiliation
Centre on Migration, Citizenship and Development(COMCAD), University of Bielefeld/GermanyPlatform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants(PICUM)Member of the editorial board of Refugee Survey Quarterly
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Name Tara Polzer
Institutional
Affiliation
Forced Migration Studies Programme, University of the Witwatersrand
Country
Base
South Africa
Current
Position
Researcher and Coordinator of the Citizenship and Boundaries Initiative
Teaching Contribution to MA course on Introduction to Forced Migration
Research
Interests
Research on the nature of citizenship and national identity in rural border areas. Current case studies: South Africa/Mozambique border; Kenya/Uganda border
Selected
Publications
(2005) Discourses on immigration in South Africa: managing diversity in a new nation in Plaw, A. (ed.) Frontiers of Diversity:Essays in Contemporary Pluralism, Rodopi, Amsterdam

(2002) with Johnstone Summit, Conflict and Coffee in Burundi , in Jeremy Lind and Kathryn Sturman (eds.), Scarcity and Surfeit: The Ecology of Africa’s Conflicts, ACTS and ISS, Nairobi and Pretoria

(forthcoming) Adapting to changing legal frameworks: Mozambican refugees in South Africa International Journal of Refugee Law, 2007

(2005) ‘This place is my home’: where refugees become citizens , Conflict Trends, No. 3, October

(2004) ‘Nous sommes tous Sud-Africains maintenant’: l’Intégration des réfugiés mozambicains dans l’Afrique du sud rurale , Alternatives Internationales, No. 15, July-August

(2003) with Hernan del Valle, Emergency Preparedness in South Africa; Lessons from the Zimbabwean Elections , Forced Migration Review, No. 16, Jan , pp.27-30

Other
Affiliation
PhD Candidate, Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Name Doris Marie Provine
Institutional
Affiliation
Arizona State University
Country
Base
USA
Current
Position
Professor
Teaching citizenship and community, immigration policy and justice
Research
Interests
undocumented immigration, comparative perspectives on law and immigration, cosmopolitanism and immigration, policing immigration
Selected
Publications
(2009) Review: Making People Illegal by Catherine Dauvergne, Journal of Law and Society.

(2009) ‘On the Frontier of Local Law Enforcement: local police and federal immigration law’, (with Decker et al) in McDonald (ed.) Immigration, Crime, and Justice, NY: Emerald.

(2007) ‘Race and the Response of State Legislatures to Unauthorized Immigrants’, (with Jorge Chavez), Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

(2009) Unequal Under Law: Race and the War on Drugs, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Other
Affiliation
North American Center for Transborder Studies
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Name Sharlene Ramlall
Institutional
Affiliation
Rhodes University
Country
Base
South Africa
Current
Position
Lecturer and PhD Candidate
Teaching banking law; commercial law; contract and agency
Research
Interests
international human rights law; refugee and immigration law; xenophobia
Selected
Publications
Forthcoming
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Name Rosemary Salomone
Institutional
Affiliation
St. John’s University, School of Law
Country
Base
USA
Current
Position
Kenneth Wang Professor of Law
Teaching constitutional law, administrative law, children and the law
Research
Interests
immigrant children, language rights, European migration, education for democratic citizenship
Selected
Publications
(2010) True American: Language, Identity, and the Education of “New” Immigrants, Harvard University Press.

(2008) “Transnational Schooling and the New Immigrants: Developing New Identities in the United States,” Intercultural Education, vol. 19, no. 5, 283-93.

(2006) ‘Language Rights and Schooling in the Age of Transnationalism’, in Proceedings of the International Academy of Linguistic Law Conference on Language Law and Language Rights, June 2006.

(2000) Visions of Schooling: Conscience, Community and Common Education, Yale University Press.

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Name Lucy Salyer
Institutional
Affiliation
University of North Hampshire
Country
Base
USA
Current
Position
Associate Professor
Teaching Modern U.S. History; Americal legal history; Immigration and Citizenship History
Research
Interests
History of immigration and citizenship law
Selected
Publications
Crossing Borders: the Fenians and the Crisis over Citizenship [book manuscript in progress](1995) Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law, University of North Carolina Press.

(2004) “Baptism by Fire: Race, Military Service, and U.S. Citizenship Policy, 1918-1935,” Journal of American History (December 2004) (awarded the Law & Society Association Article Award in June 2005)

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Name Sarah Song
Institutional
Affiliation
University of California (Berkeley)
Country
Base
USA
Current
Position
Assistant Professor of Law and Political Science
Teaching political philosophy, legal philosophy, citizenship, history of American political thought
Research
Interests
citizenship, immigration, multiculturalism, global justice
Selected
Publications
(2009) “Democracy and Noncitizen Voting Rights,” Citizenship Studies, vol. 13, no. 6.

(2009) “What Does It Mean To Be an American?” Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, vol. 138, no. 2.

(2008) “The Subject of Multiculturalism: Culture, Religion, Ethnicity, Nationality, and Race” in New Waves in Political Philosophy, eds. Boudewijn de Bruin and Christopher Zurn, Palgrave MacMillan.

(2007) Justice, Gender, and the Politics of Multiculturalism (Cambridge, 2007) – Recipient of the 2008 Ralph Bunche Awardfrom the American Political Science Association for the best book on ethnic and cultural pluralism.

(2005) ‘Majority Norms, Multiculturalism, and Gender Equality’, American Political Science Review, v. 99, n. 4.

(2006) ‘Religious Freedom v. Sex Equality’, Theory and Research in Education, 4(1).

(2005) ‘La défense par la culture en droit américan (The cultural defense in american law)’, Critique internationale, n. 28 (juillet-septembre 2005).

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Name Dagmar Soennecken
Institutional
Affiliation
School of Public Policy & Administration & Department of Social Science(Law & Society Program), York University
Country
Base
Canada
Current
Position
Assistant Professor
Teaching Sociology of Law, Communities and Public Law
Research
Interests
Comparative politics, public policy, comparative public and constitutional law, interdisciplinary legal theory, citizenship and migration, refugee and asylum, social movements, legal mobilization, Germany, Canada, United Kingdom, EU
Selected
Publications
(2008) “The Growing Influence of the Courts over the Fate of Refugees.” Review of European and Russian Affairs. Vol. 3, Issue 4. 55-88.

(2007) “Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada, Irene Bloemraad.” Law and Politics Book Review. 17(1) 40-43.

(2005) “Complying with Europe: EU Harmonization and Soft Law in the Member States, ed. Gerda Falkner et. al.” Law and Politics Book Review. 15(10), 896-899.

(2002) with Ulf Häußler. Tagung “Menschenhandel – Frauenhandel – organisierte Kriminalität.” Zeitschrift für Ausländerrecht, 39.(2002) with Ulf Häußler. Conference Report “Human Trafficking, Trafficking in Women – organized Criminality,” Journal of Aliens Law, 39.

(2002) “National Report: Canada.” In Kay Hailbronner (ed.), Study of the Asylum Single Procedure (“One-Stop-Shop”) Against the Background of the Common European Asylum System and the Goal of a Common Asylum Procedure. Study carried out on behalf of the European Commission, Directorate General for Justice and Home Affairs.

Other
Affiliations
Faculty member of the SPPA’s executive-style graduate programme (MPPAL), a fellow at McLaughlin College, affiliated with the Canadian Centre for German and European Studies (CCGES) and with the Centre for Refugee Studies (CRS) at York. Most recently, she became a member of Osgoode Hall Law School’s graduate faculty
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Name Monica W. Varsanyi
Institutional
Affiliation
City University of New York
Country
Base
USA
Current
Position
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, John Jay College; and Doctoral Faculty in Geography, CUNY Graduate Center
Teaching Immigration Politics, Urban Politics, Research Design and Methods
Research
Interests
(Im)migration, urban, and citizenship studies; urban and political geography; immigration and the state (particularly undocumented immigration); geography, law, and public policy.
Selected
Publications
(2008) “Rescaling the ‘alien’, rescaling personhood: Neoliberalism, immigration and the state,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 98(4), pp. 877-896.

(2008) “Immigration policing through the backdoor: City ordinances, the ‘right to the city’ and the exclusion of undocumented day laborers” Urban Geography29(1), pp. 29-52.

(2009) “The paradox of contemporary immigrant political mobilization: Organized labor, undocumented migrants, and electoral participation in Los Angeles,” Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography 37(4), pp. 775-795.

Other
Affiliation
Research Associate, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego. Research Director for the State and Local Immigration Policy Project.
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Name Amy P. Wilson
Institutional
Affiliation
University of Washington
Country
Base
USA
Current
Position
Ph.D. Candidate
Teaching american politics, race/ethnic politics, constitutional law / civil liberties
Research
Interests
refugeecommunities within the US and theirinteraction with / use of “the law” and the court system; more broadly,the application of law and society studies to refugee and immigrantpopulations; comparative study of the legal behavior of refugees andimmigrants in non-US settings.
Selected
Publications
To come.
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Name Philip E. Wolgin
Institutional
Affiliation
UC Berkeley
Country
Base
USA
Current
Position
Ph.D. Student in History
Research
Interests
U.S. and comparative immigration and refugee history; international influences on domestic policy making; interest and ethnic group activities; Cold War history and politics; American Jewish History
Selected
Publications
Forthcoming
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Name Maartje van der Woude
Institutional
Affiliation
Institute for Criminal Law & Criminology, Leiden University
Country
Base
The Netherlands
Current
Position
Assistant Professor of Criminology
Teaching Both graduate and undergraduate courses: Criminal Law, Theoretical Criminology, Security risks and the Rule of Law, various other criminal justice related cours
Research
Interests
criminal justice, human rights, crimmigration, (counter)terrorism, ethnic profiling, securitization
Selected
Publications
Leun, J.P., van der & Woude, M.A.H., van der (2011) Ethnic profiling in the Netherlands? A reflection on expanding preventive powers, ethnic profiling and a changing social and political context. Policing and Society, 21 (4), pp. 444-555.
Woude, M.A.H., van der (2010) Wetgeving in een Veiligheidscultuur. Totstandkoming van antiterrorismewetgeving bezien van maatschappelijke en (rechts)politieke context. Den Haag, Boom Juridische Uitgevers (Legislation in a Culture of Control.The drafting of Dutch Counterterrorism legislation seen from a social and (legal)political perspective)
Other affiliation CINETS – Crimmigration Control International Net of Studies
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Name Marjorie S. Zatz
Institutional
Affiliation
Justice & Social Inquiry, School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University
Country
Base
USA
Current
Position
Professor
Teaching Race, gender and the law; race, gender and justice; plan to teach immigration and justice in near future
Research
Interests
collateral consequences of immigration policy; immigration policy as racialized policy; immigration, crime and victimization. Currently working on an article on the reality and rhetoric of immigration policy (with Hilary Smith) and a book on the effects of the wars on crime and war on the border on vulnerable youth. The book project examines the effects of specific policies on youth, particularly those resulting in parental detention and/or deportation (with Nancy Rodriguez).
Selected
Publications
Kubrin, Charis E., Marjorie S. Zatz, and Ramiro Martinez, Punishing Immigrants: Policy, Politics, and Injustice. New York: New York University Press. Forthcoming 2012.Within this book:

Kubrin, Charis E., Marjorie S. Zatz, and Ramiro Martinez, “Introduction” (chapter 1) and

Zatz, Marjorie S., Charis E. Kubrin, and Ramiro Martinez, “Conclusions and Policy Analysis” (chapter 11)

Zatz, Marjorie S. and Hilary Smith. “Immigration, Crime and Justice: Rhetoric, Reality and Ramifications of Recent U.S. Immigration Policies.” Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Volume 8, 2012 (invited submission).

Grants: National Science Foundation Award #0913033 to Zatz, Marjorie S., Charis E. Kubrin, and Ramiro Martinez, “Workshop. Social Science Research on Immigration: The Role of Transnational Migration, Communities and Policy.” September 2009 (Funded by NSF Law and Social Science and Sociology Programs)

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