MANOLO ABELLA

Manolo Abella is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society at the University of Oxford. From 1998 to the end of 2004, he served as the  Director of the International Migration Programme of the ILO, where he steered the organization’s work in assisting member states to improve their policies on labor migration and directed its related program of research. In 2004, he organized the activities that led to the adoption of a resolution on an ILO Plan of Action “A Fair Deal for Migrant Workers in a Global Economy” by the International Labour Conference. After retirement, he was asked to continue as a consultant in the design of the ILO multilateral framework for managing labor migration, the cornerstone of the ILO Plan of Action. During his many years with the ILO, Mr. Abella was frequently called upon to advise governments on policy measures and to help with building organizational capacities, in particular through training. He has contributed extensively to the literature on labor migration, particularly on the growth of contract labor migration in Asia and the Middle East, and on the structural changes influencing labor migration. The book Managing Labor Migration in the 21^st Century, which he co-authored with Philip Martin and Christiane Kuptsch, was published by Yale University Press in October 2005. In 2002,  President Gloria Arroyo of the Philippines awarded him the “Heritage Award” for outstanding work as an international civil servant.  Before joining the ILO he served as the Executive Director of the Institute for Labor and Manpower Studies in the Philippines, and before that as Chief Economist of the Philippine Board of Investments.  He has an M.A. in Economics from McGill University and an M.A. in Public Administration from Harvard University.

RAINER BAUBÖCK

 

Rainer Bauböck is a political scientist and senior researcher at the Institute for European Integration Research (EIF) of the Austrian Academy of Science. He is also vice-chair of the Academy’s Commission for Migration and Integration Research. His research interests are in normative political theory and comparative research on democratic citizenship, European integration, migration, nationalism and minority rights. He teaches at the Universities of Vienna and Innsbruck and is a recurrent visiting professor at Central European University Budapest. He has held fellowships and guest professorships at Yale University (2005), University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona (2003), University of Bristol (April-June 2002), University of Malmö (September 2000 - February 2001); the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (September 1998 - June 1999); and the University of Warwick (1990 - 91). In 2003-2005 Rainer Bauböck was president of the Austrian Association of Political Science. In January 2007 he will move to the European University Institute in Florence where he has been offered a chair in social and political theory.

JOSEPH CHAMIE

 

Joseph Chamie has recently been appointed Director of Research at the Center for Migration Studies, New York. Formerly, he was the Director of the United Nations Population Division. He was with the United Nations in the field of population and development both overseas and in New York for more than a quarter century.  Among other major duties, he was the Deputy Secretary-General for the 1994 United Nations International Conference for Population and Development.  In addition to completing numerous studies issued under United Nations authorship, he has also written many studies in his own name in areas such as fertility, population estimates and projections, international migration and population and development policy.  He received his graduate training in population at the University of Michigan.

MARIE-CLAIRE FOBLETS

 

Marie-Claire Foblets is Professor of law and anthropology at the Catholic University of Leuven, the Catholic University of Brussels, and the University of Antwerp in Belgium. She has been named an honorary lawyer with the Brussels Bar. For several years she served as associate professor at the Legal Anthropology Laboratory in Paris (University of Paris I/Sorbonne).  In 2004, she received the Francqui prize for overall scientific achievement, one of the highest scientific awards in Belgium.

 

Between 1998 and 2003 she was head of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Catholic University of Leuven.  In 2001, she was elected associate member of the Royal Belgian Academy of Arts and Sciences (Koniklijke Vlaamse Academie van Belgie voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten). Since 1990, her area of expertise is situated at the intersection of two disciplines, law and social and cultural anthropology.  The central positions of her work are Arab-Muslim immigration to Europe and her research in the more strictly technical legal field of aliens law.

TERRI GIVENS

 

Terri E. Givens is an Associate Professor in the Government Department at the University of Texas at Austin, and Director of the Center for European Studies and Director of the France-UT Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies.

 

Her academic interests include radical right parties, immigration politics, and the politics of race in Europe.  She has conducted extensive research in Europe, particularly in France, Germany, Austria, and Denmark.  She is an active member of the American Political Science Association, the Midwest Political Science Association, the European Union Studies Association, and the Council for European Studies.

 

She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her B.A. from Stanford University. She has held fellowships with the Ford Foundation, the University of California, Berkeley, and the European Union Center at the University of Washington.

ELZBIETA GOZDZIAK

 

Elżbieta M. Goździak is the Director of Research at the Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM) at Georgetown University and Editor of International Migration, a peer reviewed, scholarly journal devoted to research and policy analysis of contemporary issues affecting international migration.  Formerly, she held a senior position with the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) in the US Department of Health and Human Services. She has taught at Howard University's School of Social Work in the Social Work with Displaced Populations Program, and managed a program area on admissions and resettlement of refugees in industrialized countries for the Refugee Policy Group. Prior to immigrating to the US, she was an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland.

 

Dr. Gozdziak's recent publications include three edited volumes: Beyond the Gateway: Immigrants in a Changing America (Lexington Books 2005) (with Susan F. Martin); Rethinking Refuge and Displacement (AAA 2000), and a thematic volume of the Journal of Refugee Studies on Religion and Forced (Oxford University Press 2002), both with Dianna J. Shandy.

TAMAR JACOBY

 

Tamar Jacoby, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, writes extensively on immigration and citizenship.

 

She is coauthor and editor of Reinventing the Melting Pot: The New Immigrants and What It Means to Be American, a collection of essays that argues that we as a nation need to find new ways to talk about and encourage immigrant integration.  Her 1998 book, Someone Else's House: America's Unfinished Struggle for Integration, tells the story of race relations in three American cities.

 

From 1987 to 1989, she was a Senior Writer and Justice Editor for Newsweek. Between 1981 and 1987, she was the deputy editor of The New York Times op-ed page.  She taught at Yale, Cooper Union and the New School University. Her articles and essays have been published in a variety of periodicals, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, The Weekly Standard, Commentary, The New York Review of Books, and Foreign Affairs.

 

Based in Washington, DC, Ms. Jacoby is a leading conservative voice in the media in favor of immigration reform, and works to organize the center-right behind reform proposals taking shape in Congress.

 

In 2004, she was confirmed by the US Senate to serve on the National Council on the Humanities, the advisory board of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

REY KOSLOWSKI

 

Rey Koslowski is Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, at the State University of New York in Albany (SUNY). He also holds a joint appointment on the Informatics Faculty of SUNY-Albany’s College of Computing and Information, and is Director of the Center for Policy Research Program on Border Control and Homeland Security.

 

Rey Koslowski received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994.  His primary teaching and research interests are in the field of international relations dealing with international organization, European integration, international migration, information technology, and homeland security.

 

He has held fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2003-2004), the Center of International Studies at Princeton University (1999-2000), and the Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service (1996-97).  He has served as the Chair of the Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration section of the International Studies Association (ENMISA) and is a member of the editorial board of International Migration Review (IMR).

MANUEL OROZCO

 

Manuel Orozco is Director of remittances and development at the Inter-American Dialogue, where he conducts policy analysis and advocacy on issues relating to global flows of remittances.  He also heads the Central America program.

 

He was chair of Central America and the Caribbean at the United States Foreign Service Institute and is a senior researcher at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University.  He taught Political Science at the University of Akron in Ohio.  He has also worked as a researcher for the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute, working on issues  related to migration, ethnicity, international relations, and their implications for the United States.

 

In addition to his academic work, he has worked as a policy consultant for various organizations in Central America, the United States, South East Asia and Africa developing programs on democracy and governance issues, as well as on migration and remittances.  He has also taught International Relations in Costa Rica and served on various boards in Nicaragua and the United States.  His areas of interest include Central America, globalization, democracy, migration, conflict in war torn societies, and minority politics.

 

He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Texas, an M.A. in Public Administration and Latin American Studies, and a B.A. in International Relations from the National University of Costa Rica.

NINA CLARA TIESLER