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363 Contributor Biographies Richard Alba is distinguished professor of sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and co-author (with Victor Nee) of the award-winning book Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and Contemporary Immigration (Harvard University Press, 2003). He continues to research the incorporation of immigrants and their children in North America and Western Europe. Sandro Cattacin is a professor and director of the Sociological Department at the University of Geneva. His research fields are urban policies and social and health policies, in particular regarding marginal groups and migrants. He has taught at the universities of Zurich, Fribourg/CH, Constance, Neuchâtel, and Malmö. His recent publications concern migration and health, misanthropy, and migrant associations. Gianni D’Amato is Professor for Migration and Citizenship Studies at the University of Neuchâtel and director of the Swiss Forum of Migration and Population Studies (SFM). His research interests are focused on the political consequences of mobilities. He has recently co-authored a study on radical right-wing populist parties and their impacts on migration policies in Switzerland, Mit dem Fremden politisieren: Rechtspopulismus und Migrationspolitik in der Schweiz seit den 1960er Jahren (Chronos Verlag , 2008). Jan Willem Duyvendak is a full Professor Of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam . He studied sociology and philosophy in Groningen and Paris. Until 2003 he was director of the Verwey-Jonker Institute for Social Research and Professor of Community Development at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He has published in the areas of social movement mobilization (The Power of Politics [Westview Press, 1995]), sexuality, professionalism (Policy, People, and the New Professional [Amsterdam University Press, 2006]) and Dutch minority policies. 364 Contributor Biographies Nancy Foner is distinguished professor of sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her recent work on immigration has compared U.S. immigration today and a century ago, the immigrant experience in various U.S. gateway cities, and immigrant minorities in the United States and Europe. Her books include From Ellis Island to JFK: New York’s Two Great Waves of Immigration (Yale University Press, 2000), In a New Land: A Comparative View of Immigration (New York University Press, 2005), and (as editor) Across Generations: Immigrant Families in America (New York University Press, 2009). Luis Ricardo Fraga is associate vice provost for faculty advancement, director of the Diversity Research Institute, Russell F. Stark University Professor, and professor of political science at the University of Washington.He is coauthor of Multiethnic Moments: The Politics of Urban Education Reform (Temple University Press, 2006) and is coauthor (with Gary Segura) of “Culture Clash? Contesting Notions of American Identity and the Effects of Latin American Immigration,”in Perspectives on Politics (June 2006). He is also completing the forthcoming coauthored book Making It Home: Latino Lives in the United States (Temple University Press). He is one of the co-principal investigators of the Latino National Survey, the first-ever state-stratified survey of Latinos in the United States. Jennifer L. Hochschild is the Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government at Harvard University, professor of African and African-American Studies, and Harvard College Professor. She holds a lectureship in the Harvard Kennedy School. Most recently, she is the co-author (with Nathan Scovronick) of The American Dream and the Public Schools (Oxford University Press, 2003) and (with Brenna Powell) of “Racial Reorganization and the United States Census 1850–1930: Mulattoes, Half-Breeds, Mixed Parentage , Hindoos, and the Mexican Race,” in Studies in American Political Development (spring 2008).With two co-authors, she is currently working on a book titled Blurring American Racial Boundaries: Skin Color, Multiracialism, Immigration, and DNA. Christian Joppke is a professor of politics at the American University of Paris. His most recent book is Veil: Mirror of Identity (Polity Press, 2009); he has also recently written Selecting by Origin: Ethnic Migration in the Liberal State (Harvard University Press, 2005) and co-edited (with Ewa Morawska) Toward Assimilation and Citizenship : Immigrants in Liberal Nation-States (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003). Currently he is writing a book on citizenship and immigration, to be published by Polity Press. Gallya Lahav is associate professor of political science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She teaches and writes on international migration and European regional integration. In addition to numerous articles and chapters on migration politics, she is also the author of Immigration and Politics in the New Europe : Reinventing Borders (Cambridge University Press, 2004), co-editor (with...

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