Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship

About the Contributors

425 About the Contributors The Africana Cultures and Policy Studies Institute (ACPSI), formed in 2003 and created by a unique community of scholar-activists, holds as its central mission the task of defining the field of Africana Cultures and Policy Studies and thereby strengthening the discipline of Africana studies. This think tank intends to fill a much-needed gap in the global public sphere of knowledge creation and implementation by bridging the study of Africana cultures’ phenomena with relevant application toward matters of public policy advocacy, development, and evaluation. Collectively, ACPSI scholars advance the notion that the next phase of the evolution of Africana history, culture, and studies is the clear definition, articulation, and advancement of the connection between historical culture and policy. As an institute, ACPSI is poised to lead the way in addressing vital issues of global political economy which heretofore have been neglected with regard to the policy study of Africana cultures and people. Drawing on the complementary utility of interdisciplinarity and community, ACPSI seeks to bring college and university academics, government and policy experts, journalists, theologians and black religious leaders, artists, grassroots leaders , and public and organic intellectuals into a critical engagement around important issues of our collective past, present, and future as Africana peoples. Rachel Ida Buff teaches history and comparative ethnic studies at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She is a member of Voces de la Frontera, a workers’ center and immigrant rights organization. Lisa Marie Cacho is an Assistant Professor of Latina/Latino studies and Asian American studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is an interdisciplinary scholar, who specializes in comparative race and ethnic studies. Eunice Hyunhye Cho is the former Education Director at the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. She is the editor and coauthor of BRIDGE: Building a Race and Immigration Dialogue in the Global Economy. 426 about the contributors She also helped to coordinate NNIRR’s campaign to bring grassroots migrant rights leaders to the 2001 UN World Conference against Racism and Xenophobia, and she edited and coauthored From the Borderline to the Colorline : A Report on Anti-Immigrant Racism in the U.S. She serves on the national steering collective of Incite! Women of Color against Violence, and on the board of the Western States Center. She is currently a student at Stanford Law School. David Cole is a Professor at Georgetown University Law Center, a volunteer staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, the legal affairs correspondent for The Nation, and a commentator on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. A graduate of Yale University and Yale Law School, he clerked for Judge Arlin Adams on the Third Circuit. He has litigated many First Amendment cases, including Texas v. Johnson and United States v. Eichman, which extended First Amendment protection to flagburning . In 2004, his book Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism (2003) was awarded an American Book Award and the Hefner First Amendment Prize. Monisha Das Gupta teaches in ethnic studies and women’s studies at the University of Hawai‘i. Her areas of specialization are migration, globalization , U.S. race relations, and social movements. Her recent book Unruly Immigrants: Rights, Activism, and Transnational South Asian Politics in the United States (2006) examines conceptions of rights put forward by feminist , queer, and labor organizations. Her other publications focus on the post-9/11 political terrain, immigrant rights, and transnational feminism. Adam Francoeur is the Policy Coordinator at Immigration Equality, a national organization fighting for equal immigration rights for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and HIV-positive community. He leads the national effort to pass the Uniting American Families Act, a family fairness bill that would end immigration discrimination against same-sex couples. In addition, he works with immigration coalition partners to analyze and publicize how pending immigration proposals would affect LGBT and HIV-positive immigrants. He received his bachelor’s degree in international affairs from George Washington University. Before joining Immigration Equality, he worked for immigration attorneys Richard S. Bromberg and about the contributors 427 Elizabeth H. McGrail, assisting them in preparing asylum claims based on sexual orientation, Violence against Women Act petitions, naturalization and green card applications, and nonimmigrant visa petitions. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo is Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where she is directing a Provost’s Initiative on Immigration and Integration. Her research...