Understanding the complexities of immigration, including its emotional impact, is vital for forming effective policies, a sentiment most Americans echo. Evaluating historical US immigration policies and their current implications, and determining the best future direction is key. Consideration of our current stance and the path forward is essential. Key considerations include designing an effective border or asylum system and potential immigration scenarios under a Trump or Harris administration.
Speakers:
Douglas S. Massey is the Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton. Prior to joining Princeton’s faculty, he taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania. He is Past-President of the Population Association of America, the American Sociological Association, and the American Academy of Political and Social Science and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Academia Europea. He is the author or coauthor of 17 books, the editor or co-editor of 13 published volumes, and the author or coauthor of more than 300 articles and chapters. His publications have garnered awards from the American Philosophical Society, the American Sociological Association, the Law and Society Association, German Institute for Social Research, and the Association for Applied Anthropology.
Jeremy Robbins is the Executive Director of the American Immigration Council. Previously, Jeremy spent more than a decade building New American Economy, the think tank and advocacy organization founded by Michael Bloomberg to make the economic case for smarter immigration policies, as NAE’s first and sole Executive Director. Prior to that, Jeremy served as a policy advisor and special counsel in the Office of New York City Mayor, a judicial law clerk on the United States Court of Appeals, a Robert L. Bernstein International Human Rights Fellow working on prisoners’ rights issues in Argentina, and a litigation associate at WilmerHale in Boston, where he was part of the firm’s team representing six Bosnian men detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Jeremy received a JD from Yale Law School and a BA in political science from Brown University.