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Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Interdisciplinary School of Health Sciences at the University of Ottawa and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Chair in Health Human Resource Policy which is jointly funded by Health Canada. She is also the Scientific Director of the pan-Ontario Population Health Improvement Research Network and the Ontario Health Human Resource Research Network both housed at the University of Ottawa with funding from the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-term Care. Dr. Bourgeault also leads the pan-Canadian Health Human Resources Network with funding from Health Canada and the CIHR. Monica Boyd holds the Canada Research Chair in Immigration, Inequality and Public Policy, joining the University of Toronto in 2001. Previously, she was the Mildred and Claude Pepper Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Florida State University where she was also a research associate in the Center for the Study of Population, and a research affiliate in the Pepper Institute on Aging. A former faculty member at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, she was the first incumbent of the Visiting Chair in Public Policy, Social Science Division, University of Western Ontario. She has held Visiting Scholar appointments at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, at Harvard University, and at Statistics Canada. Gary P. Freeman is Chair of the Government Department at the University of Texas at Austin. Apart from two years in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, he has been at Texas his entire career. A victim of the second book syndrome, his only solo volume, Immigrant Labor and Racial Conflict in Industrial Societies, was published in 1979. He has kept busy, however, co-editing two books, and publishing over fifty journal articles and book chapters, dozens of monographs and commentaries, and over fifty book reviews. Most recently he has published articles on diversity and support for the welfare state, the conflict between liberal democracy and mass immigration, and the role of interest groups in the making of immigration policy. He is no longer working on that second book.

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Lesleyanne Hawthorne (Ph.D., M.A., B.A. Hons, Dip Ed, Grad Dip Mig Stud) has 25 years’ experience researching high skilled migration, foreign credential recognition, and international student flows. Most recently she has undertaken commissioned projects for UNESCO, the Australian, Canadian and New Zealand governments, the Global Forum of Federations, the Migration Policy Institute (US), and the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council. In 2005–2006 Lesleyanne was appointed to an Expert Panel of Three by Australia’s Federal Cabinet to complete the most extensive evaluation of Australia’s economic migration program since 1988, with significant policy impacts. She has also completed the main Australian studies on ‘two-step migration’. Key projects in 2009–2011 include analysis of global strategies to enhance foreign credential recognition, the value of the study-migration pathway, and health workforce migration. David L. Leal is an Associate Professor of Government, Director of the Irma Rangel Public Policy Institute, and Director of the Immigration Studies Initiative at the University of Texas at Austin. His primary academic interest is Latino politics, and his work explores a variety of questions involving public opinion, political behavior, and public policy. He has published three dozen journal articles and co-edited seven volumes on these and other topics. Dr. Leal was an APSA Congressional Fellow (1998–1999), a Spencer/National Academy of Education post-doctoral Fellow (2002–2004), Co-Chair of the APSA Committee on the Status of Latinos y Latinas in the Profession (2004–2006), and a member of the APSA Task Force on Religion and American Democracy (2006–2008). He is currently a member of the editorial boards of American Politics Research, Social Science Quarterly, and State Politics & Policy Quarterly. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Lindsay Lowell is Director of Policy Studies for the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University. He was previously Director of Research at the congressionally appointed Commission on Immigration Reform where he was also Assistant Director for the Mexico/US Binational Study on Migration. He has been Research Director at the Pew Hispanic Center of the University of Southern California, a Labor Analyst at the US Department of Labor; and he taught at Princeton University and the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Lowell has published over 150 reports, chapters, and articles in journals such as the Social Science Quarterly, Demography, Population and Development Review, American Economic Review; and Work and Occupations. His research interests are in immigration policy, labor force, economic development, and the global mobility of the highly skilled. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology as a Demographer from Brown University. Elena Neiterman is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Sociology of the University of Toronto. Her research interests are in sociology of health and illness, health and health care policy, health care professions, immigration and ethnicity, and comparative health policy analysis. Her work focuses on the construction of identities in cross-cultural transitions and on the analysis of impact that social discourses and dominant ideologies have on health care policy. She received her Ph.D. from McMaster University.

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Jake Onyet serves as a Lieutenant Junior Grade with the U.S. Navy. He received his M.A. from the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. Jeffrey G. Reitz (Ph.D., Columbia 1972; FRSC) is Professor and former Chair in the Department of Sociology, R.F. Harney Professor of Ethnic, Immigration and Pluralism Studies (www.utoronto.ca/ethnicstudies), and a faculty member at the Munk School of Global Affairs, at the University of Toronto. His latest book is Multiculturalism and Social Cohesion: Potentials and Challenges of Diversity (Springer 2009). Recent articles include “Race, Religion, and the Social Integration of Canada’s New Immigrant Minorities (International Migration Review 2009), and “Comparisons of the success of racial minority immigrant offspring in the United States, Canada and Australia (Social Science Research 2011). During 2012–2014, he is a Marie Curie International Fellow based at l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, with a project on “Muslim Minorities in France, Quebec and Canada: Social, Economic and Political Integration.” Oliver Schmidtke is a Professor and UVic European Studies Scholar in the Departments of History and Political Science. Since 2006 he holds the Jean Monnet Chair in European History and Politics. From 2005 to 2008 he was the Director of the European Studies Program at UVic and from 2004 to 2006 he served as the President of the European Community Studies Association Canada. Currently he is the Director of the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria. Schmidtke’s research interests are in the fields of comparative European politics and contemporary history, European integration, the political sociology of immigration and ethnic conflict, and the role of identities and collective memory in modern societies. His most recent book publication is: Falge, C., Ruzza, C. and Schmidtke, O. (2012). Giving New Subjects a Voice. Political and Institutional Responses to Cultural Diversity in the Health Care System. Ashgate. Karen Schönwälder is a Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany, and a professor at Göttingen University. She previously worked at the Social Science Research Center (WZB) in Berlin, the University of London and a number of German universities. In 2001–2002, she was a visiting professor at Haifa University. Her current projects investigate issues of diversity and inter-ethnic interaction in German cities and the political incorporation of immigrants. She has published widely on migration and integration policies and processes, with a focus on Germany and Britain. A detailed list of publications can be found at: www.mmg.mpg.de. Ayelet Shachar is Professor of Law, Political Science, and Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, where she holds the Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and Multiculturalism. She earned her LL.M and J.S.D. from Yale University. Her scholarship focuses on citizenship theory, immigration law, feminism and multiculturalism, and highly skilled migration. Shachar is the author of Multicultural Jurisdictions: Cultural Differences and Women’s Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2001), which has inspired a new generation of thinking about how to best mitigate the tensions between gender equality and religious diversity. It was cited, most recently, by England’s Archbishop of Canterbury and the Supreme Court of

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Canada. Her latest book, The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality (Harvard University Press, 2009) has similarly created a groundswell of interest among policy makers and academics alike. Shachar is the recipient of several research and excellence awards, and has held visiting professor positions at Stanford Law School and Harvard Law School. Her work has also proven influential in the real world, intervening in actual public policy and legislative debates. Craig Damian Smith is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science (International Relations) and the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto. His thesis project investigates whether militarized migration controls and hardened borders around the Mediterranean provide desired security dividends. He has conducted fieldwork in Egypt, Israel, Morocco, and Spain. He currently holds a research fellowship at the Centre for Migration and Refugee Studies at the American University of Cairo, and is supported by a fieldwork grant from Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Will Somerville is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), a non-partisan think tank based in Washington DC, where he advises several governments on immigration and immigrant integration policy. He is also the UK Director of Unbound Philanthropy, a global philanthropic foundation that works on issues associated with refugees and migrants. Prior to joining MPI in 2006, Will Somerville worked at the Commission for Racial Equality, the UK Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, Cabinet Office, and the Institute for Public Policy Research. He has authored over sixty policy papers, chapters, and journal articles, including Immigration under New Labour (2007, Policy Press). He is a regular contributor to the British media and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Gwenda Tavan is a senior lecturer in the Politics program at La Trobe University. Her research interests include the politics and history of immigration in Australian and transnational contexts, Australian political culture and leadership studies. Her publications include the award-winning book, The Long, Slow Death of White Australia (Scribe, 2005). Her most recent publication is a co-edited volume: K. Neumann and G. Tavan (eds.) 2009, How History Matters in Immigration and Citizenship Policy: The past in the present in Australian and New Zealand policy-making, ANU E Press, ANZSOG series. Dr Tavan is currently completing a book on Arthur Calwell and the postwar immigration program. Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto Scarborough and the School of Public Policy and Governance. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the New School for Social Research and is a former SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow. He also held a two-year visiting research fellowship at the Institute for Social Sciences, Humboldt University, through the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). He is the author of Becoming Multicultural: Immigration and the Politics of Citizenship in Canada and Germany (UBC Press, 2012). More information regarding his research and teaching is available at: triadafilopoulos.wordpress.com. Philip E. Wolgin works as an Immigration Policy Analyst at the Center for American Progress, a non-partisan think tank in Washington D.C. His work at the Center focuses on understanding the unauthorized immigrant population in the

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United States, immigrant integration, the economics of immigration, and immigration policy making writ large. He holds a Ph.D. in American History from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied immigration and refugee policy, writing a dissertation entitled “Beyond National Origins: The Development of Modern Immigration Policymaking, 1948–1968.”