Michele Wucker

Japan Times
Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010
No one-size-fits-all for foreign suffrage:
How the rest of the world deals with aliens at the ballot box
By SARAH NOORBAKHSH
Excerpt:
Acknowledging the rights of immigrant groups, “recognizing special ties among particular groups of countries” and reciprocation are often part and parcel of granting suffrage, says Michele Wucker, executive director of the World Policy [...]

I’ll be on Fox & Friends (Channel 44 in NYC) around 6:15 a.m. ET tomorrow morning, Monday September 14th, debating the brouhaha over immigration and healthcare reform.
Here’s some background on the issue from the Los Angeles Times, the Immigration Policy Center, and Reuters.
It’s interesting to see that after Medicare tightened its proof-of-citizenship rules in [...]

Latoya Peterson interviewed me on Jezebel.com yesterday. Here’s the link:
Does The Struggle For Women’s Rights Extend To Citizenship?
Interview excerpt: “The largest issues facing women around the world are in many ways the same as the ones facing men: basic questions of human security and having a voice in solving problems that affect you. Literacy, education, [...]

Title: Who Gets A Voice?: Immigrants and Civic EngagementLocation: New York CityLink out: Click hereDescription: 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 [...]

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 [...]

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

Tags: Canada, citizenship, immigration policy, migration