Michele Wucker

Title: Who Gets A Voice?: Immigrants and Civic Engagement
Location: New York City
Link out: Click here
Description: I’ll be moderating a public debate Tuesday evening, June 30, hosted by the World Policy Institute and Demos with panelists Maria Teresa Petersen of Voto Latino; Tamar Jacoby, Immigration Works USA; Gara Lamarche, Atlantic Philanthropies; and Hiroshi Motomura, UCLA and Author of Americans in Waiting. For more details and to register, follow the link.
Start Time: 6:00
Date: 2009-06-30
End Time: 8:30

I’ve written a chapter in the new book, GETTING IMMIGRATION RIGHT: WHAT EVERY AMERICAN NEEDS TO KNOW, edited by David Coates and Peter Siavalis and published by Potomac Press. My chapter deals with changing conceptions of citizenship, based on some of the work I did during my 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship. It’s about the ways in which nations around the globe are changing laws and customs governing who is allowed to become a citizen and how the naturalization process works, even as they debate the shifting norms about the rights and responsibilities that citizenship entails.

Please pick up a copy of the book at your favorite bookstore or online!

The book is based on a conference that David and Peter organized in Fall 2007 at Wake Forest University. Here’s the video of my session with Mark Miller (I start speaking at around 28:00)

I’ll be delivering the keynote address on Immigration: Global Economics and Local Communities on May 14 at Adelphi University.

The full event, “Immigration on Long Island: New Directions and Opportunities for Civic Engagement,” organized by the Center for Social Innovation, will be held Thursday, May 14, 2009, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., at Adelphi’s Thomas Dixon Lovely Ballroom in the Ruth S. Harley University Center, 1 South Avenue, Garden City, NY.

A discussion will follow with panelists:

• The Honorable Edward Romaine, Suffolk County Legislator, 1st District
• Dr. Margaret Gray, assistant professor of political science, Adelphi University
• Mr. David Dyssegaard Kallick, senior fellow, Fiscal Policy Institute

Details are available at:
http://www.adelphi.edu/socialinnovation/events.php

Here’s video from my April 23 appearance on “The Agenda with Steve Paikin” on TVO (Canada) discussing dual citizenship.

I’m honored to be a member of the World Economic Forum’s 2009 class of Young Global Leaders announced today.

I gave a lecture at the Royal D Alworth Institute at the University of Minnesota-Duluth on Tuesday.

“Immigration and Globalization”
Presented by Michele Wucker, Executive Director of the World Policy Institute, New York
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 7:00 p.m. – UMD Fourth Floor Library Rotunda

More than 200 million people -a record- now live in countries where they were not born. Policy challenges related to immigration, which is now debated heavily and with much emotion, cannot be resolved through domestic policies alone but must take into account the realities of global interdependence, particularly where economics are concerned. How are countries around the globe responding to record human migration and mobility? What policies will succeed or fail in helping host communities to absorb new immigrants? What can be done to reduce the pressures that force people to leave their countries and families in order to survive? What is the relationship between economic globalization, labor markets, and jobs for immigrants and the native-born? How can policies support the middle classes in both wealthy and poor nations? Through an examination of these questions, Michele Wucker will analyze the new realities of global immigration.

Hi,

I’ll be on Fox & Friends tomorrow morning, Tuesday February 10, at (gulp) 6:22 am ET. Channel 44 in NYC.

We’ll be talking about the lawsuit against an Arizona rancher who held 16 illegal immigrants at gunpoint and claims to have rounded up 12,000 immigrants and handed them over to the Border Patrol during the last 10 years.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,490084,00.html

Me being interviewed on PBS Worldfocus January 28, 2009, about the impact of the global economic crisis on social unrest.

Click the link below for the full story, links and comments:

http://worldfocus.org/blog/2008/10/03/watch-w orldfocus-on-tv/1577/

On Tuesday, February 3, WorldFocus Radio’s Martin Savidge interviewed Vivek Wadhwa and me about the impact of “reverse brain drain” on the US economy.

You can listen and comment at this link:

http://worldfocus.org/blog/2009/01/29/qa-reverse-brain-drain-and-the-us-economy/3830/

Click below for a summary and more video excerpts of the workshop on “Top Risks and Ethical Decisions 2009″ at which I was a panelist on January 13, 2009, along with Ian Bremmer and Art Kleiner:

http://www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/briefings/data/000099

Here’s video of the full event: http://www.cceia.org/resources/video/data/000103