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Immigration Reform
Hopes for immigration reform legislation this year have been dashed - and likely won't be resurrected until 2009 - when a new president moves into the White House.
The University of Maryland has a number of experts who can help add perspective to your reporting the immigration bill, why it failed, as well as on a wide range of immigration issues. Please feel free to contact our faculty experts directly.
Sample Quotes
Prof. Seth Sanders
Department of Economics
Director - Maryland Population Research Center
"Immigration clearly services businesses' interests. The more controversial question is: Does it hurt labor's interests? Are the job prospects of native-born workers who potentially compete for lower-paying jobs hurt by increased immigration? While controversy persists, a majority of professional economists believe immigration's effects on the job prospects of U.S.-born workers are limited." Read More.
Prof. John Iceland
Sociology Department
"A Guest Worker program will likely not work as intended, and it is a radical departure from the way the U.S. has, for the most part, handled issues of immigrant incorporation from the founding of the country."
Prof. Shawn Parry-Giles
Dept. of Communication
"Historically, issues of immigration and civil rights surface during moments of wartime. To that end, it is not surprising that as the nation deliberates over the war in Iraq, it is now faced with difficult questions of citizenship status not unlike periods during World War I and the early Cold War."
"The intersection of war and immigration inspires intense fear over others from outside, which combines with the economic difficulties that face the country during wartime to create a situation of considerable controversy."
Number of experts found: 9
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Seth G. Sanders
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Professor and Director - Maryland Population Research Center
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Economics
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Expertise Key Words:
Labor economics with a particular emphasis on economic demography. The cost and consequences of teenage childbearing to mothers and government, the use of welfare programs, the economic progress of Asian Americans in the U.S. economy, and the economic demography of gays and lesbians in America.
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301 405 3497
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ssander1@umd.edu
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Ronald W. Walters
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Professor Emeritus
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Government & Politics
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Expertise Key Words:
Supreme Court; Hurricane's Katrina and Rita; Civil Rights; National politics and elections, African American politics, urban politics, political leadership. Barack Obama.
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301 405 1787
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301-421-5919
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rwalters@umd.edu
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Shawn J. Parry-Giles
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Associate Professor and Director, Center for Political Communication & Civic Leadership
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Communication
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Expertise Key Words:
U.S. Political Communication, U.S. War Discourse, Wartime Propaganda, Speeches of Presidency and First Lady, Politics and Media, Campaigns and Elections, Presidential Debates, Media Coverage of Presidency and First Lady, Media Coverage of Hillary Rodham Clinton, Popular Culture and the Presidency
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301 405 6527
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301-495-8875
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spg@umd.edu
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Lisa R. Mar
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Assistant Professor
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History & Asian American Studies Program
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Expertise Key Words:
Immigration, race & ethnicity;
Asian American Studies, Asian Canadian Studies
Chinese immigration,
Canada.
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301 405 7051
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lmar@umd.edu
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Steven Kull
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Director
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Program on International Policy Attitudes
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Expertise Key Words:
U.S. and international public opinion; conducts international polling; leader in compiling and analyzing global public opinion data; expert in foreign policy issues
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202 232 7500
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skull@umd.edu
skull@pipa.org
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James M. Glass
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Professor
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Government & Politics
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Expertise Key Words:
Political theory and philosophy, political psychology. Political action and political morality. Current research includes a study of Jewish political and spiritual resistance during the Holocaust.
Political action and political morality; politics and film
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301 405 4119
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jglass1@umd.edu
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John Iceland
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Assoicate Professor
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Sociology
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Expertise Key Words:
Poverty;
Racial and ethnic residential segregation
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301 405 6430
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jiceland@umd.edu
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James G. Gimpel
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Professor
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Government & Politics
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Expertise Key Words:
Voting; Congress; Local and Maryland Politics; American Voting Behavior, Campaigns and Elections, State Politics, Congress, Quantitative Methods, U.S. immigration policy, and public opinion.
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301 405 7929
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jgimpel@gvpt.umd.edu
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Peter G. Morici
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Professor
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Logistics, Business & Public Policy
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Expertise Key Words:
Macroeconomics, International Economics And International Business, And Government Regulation; Steel; Autos; Telecommunications; Airlines; Manufacturing; Retailing; Financial And Foreign Exchange Markets; Import And Export Issues
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301 405 2136
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703-549-4338
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pmorici@umd.edu
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