Articles and Essays
SELECTED PAST ESSAYS AND ARTICLES
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Selected Essays and Articles
• “A Safe Haven in New Haven.” New York Times, April 15, 2007.
• “Borderline Pandering.” The Guardian Online, April 11, 2007.
• “Fixing the Border—Without a Wall.” World Policy Journal Winter 2006-2007.
• “Wanted But Not Welcome.” Texas Observer. March 23, 2007.
• “Family Second.” Guest Op-Ed Contributor, New York Times. February 28, 2006.
• “Fences and Smokescreens.” The Guardian. December 26, 2006.
• “Farmer’s Branch Folly: Local Immigration Laws Do More Harm than Good.” Huffington Post. November 28, 2006.
• “America Wrestles With Immigration Reform.” Heinrich Böll Foundation (Germany) June, 2006.
• “The Top Ten Ways America Gets Immigration Wrong.” Perspectives. Immigration Policy Center, June, 2006.
• “Don’t Get Immigration Wrong-Again.” Opendemocracy.net June 20, 2006.
• “The Complex Terrain of Dual Citizenship.” Internationale Politik (Germany –TransAtlantic edition) Summer 2006.
• “Por que os EUA nao acertam quando o tema e a imigraçao.” Folha de São Paulo, April 11, 2006.
• “Keep Stirring the Melting Pot.” Guardian Unlimited. April 8, 2006.
• “The Benefits of Dual Citizenship.” Foreign Policy In Focus. March 8, 2006.
• “National Security and Noncitizens in the United States after 9/11,” in Immigration Policies and Security: The Transatlantic Security Challenges and Dilemmas for the European Migration Policy Project (Warsaw: Center for International Relations, 2006), edited by Krystyna Iglicka.
• “Diminishing Returns.” The costs of migrant worker remittances. Harper’s, December, 2005.
• “Losing Our Edge: A Review of Richard Florida’s Flight of the Creative Class.” Washington Post Bookworld, June 19, 2005.
• Excerpts of Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola, in Caribbean Connections: The Dominican Republic (Washington, D.C.: Teaching for Change, 2005), edited by Anne Gallin, Ruth Glasser, Jocelyn Santana, and Patricia Pessar.
• “Immigrant Voting Rights Receive More Attention” (with Ron Hayduk) Migration Source,
November 1, 2004.
• “Political Power in the Perpetual Migration Machine” World Policy Journal, Fall 2004.
• “Storms Add Misery to Caribbean Crisis,” Newsday, September 29, 2004.
• “Remittances: The Perpetual Migration Machine” World Policy Journal, Summer 2004.
• “Haiti: So Many Missteps.” World Policy Journal, Spring 2004.
• “Distant Neighbors” (a review of Julia Preston and Sam Dillon’s Opening Mexico). New York Times Book Review, March 28, 2004.
• “Let Legal Immigrants Vote in City.” (with Ron Hayduk) New York Daily News, September 22, 2003.
• “Civics Lessons from Immigrants.” What happens when a large part of the working class has no traditional political voice? The American Prospect, July 1, 2003.
• “The Need to Come Clean in Argentina.” Argentina should create a corruption Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Washington Post, May 25, 2003.
• “Seeking Argentina’s Silver Lining.” What the world needs to do to prevent future Argentinas. World Policy Journal, Winter 2002/2003.
• “Going for Broke.” A review of A Free Nation Deep in Debt and Republic of Debtors. Washington Post, January 19, 2003.
• “Muddling is Not Enough.” Argentina’s impending default. International Financing Review, July 26, 2001. Also published as “Fazer confusão não basta” in Valor Económico.
• “Passing the Buck: No Chapter 11 for Bankrupt Countries.” An analysis of the world’s jury-rigged approach to sovereign debt crisis. World Policy Journal, Summer 2001.
• “Edwidge Danticat: A Voice for the Voiceless.” Américas. May/June 2000.
• “Poverty/ Home Economics. A review of Hernando de Soto’s The Mystery of Capital.” Washington Post Book World, December 10, 2000.
• “How Not to Deal with Debt.” A look at lessons from Ecuador’s financial meltdown. IntellectualCapital, January 27, 2000.
• “Americans: Who We Are, What We Lost.” Revisiting white Americans’ attitudes toward their own ancestors’ assimilation. Tikkun, January/February 2000
• “Some People Good, Other People Better: A Look at the Draconian 1996 Immigration Laws.” IntellectualCapital, September 16, 1999
• “Foreign Policy: Race & Massacre in Hispaniola.” A 1937 ethnic cleansing left lasting traces. Tikkun, November/December 1998
• “Keep on Trekking.” How a small Wisconsin business became the top exporter in its field. Working Woman, December/January 1998
• “El lifting de la banca.” Helping Latin America’s banking system recover after Mexico’s devaluation. AméricaEconomía, November 1996
