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Christine Brenner is assistant professor in the Department of Public Policy and Administration at Rutgers Camden and Director of the Forum for Policy Research and Public Service. She has focused her research on public policy issues affecting people living in the U.S.-Mexico border region, and the impact of Latino immigration into new destinations in the United States. Digame! Policy and Politics on the Texas Border, a volume she edited, elaborates on the social and economic issues surrounding life in the borderlands. Her current research includes a study of local government responsiveness to the changing national demographics in the new Latino destinations. Email:

Janice Fine is assistant professor of labor studies and employment relations at the School of Management and Labor Relations. She is also senior fellow for organizing and policy at the Center for Community Change (CCC). A 20-year veteran of the labor and community organizing movements, she focuses her attention on the plight of low-wage immigrant workers. Her book Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream was released in January of 2006 by Cornell University Press and the Economic Policy Institute. Her most recent project, featured in major media around the country, is a social venture with CCC and eight worker centers around the country to provide affordable and reliable financial services for low wage immigrant workers. In September of 2007, Fine was appointed by Governor Corzine to New Jersey’s Blue Ribbon Panel on Immigrant Integration. Email:

Jane Junn is associate professor, Eagleton Institute of Politics and Department of Political Science. Her primary interests are political participation and elections in the U.S., political behavior and attitudes among American minorities and immigrants, theories of democracy, survey research, and social science methodology. Her book, Education and Democratic Citizenship in America (with Norman Nie and Ken Stehlik-Barry) won the 1997 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Book Award from the American Political Science Association for the best book published in political science in 1996. She has been a member of a National Academies of Science panel evaluating the redesign of the U.S. Naturalization test. In 1998 she was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Hanguk University of Foreign Studies in Seoul, Korea. Email:

Catherine Lee is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology. Professor Lee’s interests include race and ethnicity, gender, immigration, political sociology, law and society, and sociology of science and medicine. She has published articles on migrant workers in South Korea and discriminatory practices in death penalty cases. She is currently preparing a book-length manuscript on the politics of immigrant exclusion at the turn of the last century. Prior to joining the department, Professor Lee was a postdoctoral fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Research Program at the University of Michigan from 2003-05. She was also a guest scholar at the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California at San Diego. Email:

Nicholas V. Montalto is project director and visiting associate with the Program for Immigration and Democracy. He served for 25 years as President and CEO of the International Institute of New Jersey. In this capacity and later as a consultant, he researched and designed creative solutions to the policy challenges caused by America's ever-changing diversity. In 2006, he researched and authored a report on immigrant integration in New Jersey for the National Immigration Forum. From 2005 to 2007, he was the chair of the board of directors of the New Jersey Immigration Policy Network. He holds a doctorate in American immigrant and ethnic history from the University of Minnesota. Email:

Daniel J Tichenor is associate professor, Eagleton Institute of Politics and Department of Political Science.
His research interests include executive and legislative politics, social movements, interest groups, immigration and citizenship, public policy, and history and politics. He is author of Dividing Lines: The Politics of Immigration Control in America (Princeton University Press), which won the American Political Science Association's 2003 Gladys M. Kammerer Award for the best book in American national policy. He is currently finishing two forthcoming books: Abiding Interests: Participation, Representation and the Development of the Washington Lobbying Community (Cambridge University Press) and An Uneasy Nation of Immigrants (University of Michigan Press). He is an affiliated faculty member of the Center for Migration and Development, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University and the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego. Email:

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