Spring 1999, Volume XIV Number 2 Immigration: A Dialogue on Policy, Law, and Values Contributors EDITORS HANNAH LEITERMAN was Program Assistant for School Programs for the American Bar Association Division for Public Education, 541 N. Fairbanks Court; Chicago, IL 60611-3314. JOHN PAUL RYAN was Director of School Programs for the American Bar Association Division for Public Education, 541 N. Fairbanks Court; Chicago, IL 60611-3314 CONTRIBUTORS KITTY CALAVITA is Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine. A sociologist of law with interests in immigration policymaking, both in the U.S. and internationally, she is the author of Inside the State: The Bracero Program, Immigration, and the INS (Routledge, 1992), U.S. Immigration Law and the Control of Labor: 1820-1924 (Academic Press, 1984), and, most recently, of an article on immigration, law, and the economy in Spain, published in the Law & Society Review. She is currently at work on an historical study of the enforcement of the Chinese Exclusion Laws. CHRISTINA DECONCINI is Director of the ABA Immigration Pro Bono Development and Bar Activation Project, which seeks to increase immigrants’ access to lawyers, courts, and the justice system; funds bar associations throughout the U.S. to develop pro bono resources to serve the civil legal needs of indigent immigrants; educates non-immigration lawyers about the legal needs of immigrants; and advocates for policy changes to increase access and ensure due process, judicial review and fairness for all newcomers. Prior to coming to the ABA in 1991, she directed the legal program for a multi-service organization serving Central American refugees and also represented detainees in Harlingen, Texas. MARK KRIKORIAN is Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a non-profit research organization in Washington, D.C., which examines and critiques the impact of immigration on the United States. He frequently testifies before Congress and has published articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, Commentary, and National Review. He has appeared on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, on CNN, C-SPAN, Fox News Network, MSNBC, and National Public Radio. Before joining the Center in 1995, he was an editor at The Winchester (VA.) Star, as well as editor of the monthly newsletter of the Federation for American Immigration Reform. SUSAN MARTIN is is Director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration. Based in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, the Institute conducts interdisciplinary studies of the issues raised by U.S. immigration policy and law and undertakes comparative analyses of international migration issues, including various bilateral, regional, and multilateral approaches to migration and refugee policy. She is the author of Refugee Women (Zed Books, 1992), and other monographs and articles on immigration and refugee policy. Prior to coming to Georgetown, she served as the Executive Director of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform and, before then, as the Director of Research and Programs at the Refugee Policy Group. An American Studies scholar by training, she has taught at Brandeis University and the University of Pennsylvania. RACHEL MORAN is the Robert D. and Leslie-Kay Raven Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). From 1993-96, she served as Chair of the Chicano/Latino Policy Project at the Institute for the Study of Social Change on the Berkeley campus. Her research focuses on issues relating to equity and access for Latinos, including the interplay of immigration and civil rights in defining the life chances of Latinos in such areas as bilingual education and affirmative action. Her recent work has appeared in such journals as the California Law Review, La Raza Law Journal, and the Harvard Latino Law Review. KAREN MUSALO is Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at the University of California, Hastings College of Law. She is also Consulting Professor at the Stanford Law School, where she teaches courses on immigration and refugee law. She currently directs the Expedited Removal Study, a nationwide study of the implementation of the new expedited removal procedures. She is lead author of Refugee Law and Policy: Cases and Materials (Carolina Academic Press, 1997) and the author of articles on refugee and human rights issues. She has litigated a number of landmark asylum decisions, including Matter of Kasinga, which contributed to the evolving jurisprudence of gender-related asylum claims, and is the founding director of the Women’s Asylum Project. PAUL ONG is Professor of Urban Planning, Asian-American Studies, and Social Welfare at UCLA. He is currently Director of the Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies and research director for the joint LEAP-UCLA Asian American Public Policy Research Institute. An economist by training, he has conducted research on immigration, racial inequality, and welfare-to-work. He is the author of The New Asian Immigration in Los Angeles and Global Restructuring (Temple, 1994) and a number of articles on these subjects. He has served on a variety of advisory committees, including California’s Employment Development Department and the Asian Pacific American Advisory Committee for the U.S. Bureau of the Census. DAVID REIMERS is Professor of History at New York University. He is the author of Unwelcome Strangers: American Identity and the Turn Against Immigration (Columbia, 1998) and Still the Golden Door: The Third World Comes to America (Columbia, 1992; 2nd ed.), and co-author of All the Nations Under Heaven: An Ethnic and Racial History of New York City (Columbia, 1996) and, most recently, Ethnic Americans: A History of Immigration (Columbia, 1999; 4th ed.). PETER SCHUCK is the Simeon E. Baldwin Professor of Law at Yale Law School; during Spring, 1999 he was the John Marshall Harlan Visiting Professor at New York Law School. He has written two books on immigration-related issues, including Citizens, Strangers, and In-Betweens: Essays on Immigration and Citizenship (Westview Press, 1998), and (with Rogers M. Smith) Citizenship Without Consent: Illegal Aliens in the American Polity (Yale, 1985), and a number of articles, including one on criminal aliens in a forthcoming issue of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. Spring 1999 Issue Home | American Values | Levels and Criteria | Congress and Courts Bilingual Education | The Future | The ABA & Immigration | Resources Contributors | Comments | Credits/Disclaimers Focus on Law Studies Home | Subscribe to Focus | Questions/Ordering Back Issues