MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT

WELCOME
Karen T. Grisez
Special Counsel, Public Service Counsel
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Most Rev. Nicholas DiMarzio
Bishop of Brooklyn

INTRODUCTION
Douglas Gurak
Editor, International Migration Review
Center for Migration Studies

THE INESCAPABLE CONNECTION BETWEEN MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT:
A REMEMBRANCE OF THE GENESIS OF THE AGE OF MIGRATION
Mark Miller
Emma Smith Morris Professor of Political Science and International Relations
University of Delaware

MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT: A THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE
Hein de Haas
Professor of Sociology
University of Amsterdam

INTRODUCTION
J. Rachel Reyes
Communications Coordinator
Center for Migration Studies

BIRTH REGISTRATION AND ACCESS TO RIGHTS
Karen Mercado
President
Be Foundation Derecho a la Identidad

Claudia Cappa
Statistics Specialist (Child Protection, Child Disability, ECD)
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

INTRODUCTION
Donald Kerwin
Executive Director
Center for Migration Studies

DEVELOPMENT, THE RULE OF LAW AND MIGRATION IN THE NORTHERN TRIANGLE STATES
Juan Ricardo Ortega
Operations Principal Advisor
Inter-American Development Bank

REFUGEE PROTECTION

REFUGEES: ACCESS TO PROTECTION AND DURABLE SOLUTIONS

Moderator
Donald Kerwin
Executive Director
Center for Migration Studies

Speakers
T. Alexander Aleinikoff
Former United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees

William Canny
Executive Director
Migration and Refugee Services
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

Tara Magner

INTRODUCTION
Donald Kerwin
Executive Director
Center for Migration Studies

IMMIGRATION’S ENIGMA PRINCIPLE: PROTECTION AND PARADOX
David A. Martin
Warner-Booker Distinguished Professor of International Law
University of Virginia School of Law

RECENT TRENDS IN ASYLUM PROTECTION IN THE UNITED STATES

Moderator
Michele Pistone
Director of Clinic for Asylum, Refugee and Emigrant Services (CARES) and Professor of Law
Villanova University School of Law
Co-Managing Editor, Journal on Migration and Human Security
Center for Migration Studies

Speakers
J. Kevin Appleby
Director, Office of Migration Policy and Public Affairs
Migration and Refugee Services, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

Lisa Frydman
Director of Regional Policy and Initiatives
Kids in Need of Defense

Karen T. Grisez
Special Counsel, Public Service Counsel
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Presentation by Hein de Haas

Presentation by Claudia Cappa

T. Alexander Aleinikoff
Former United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, a leading scholar in immigration and refugee law, is currently on assignment with the UN Secretariat in New York and will start as visiting professor of law and as the Huo Global Policy Initiative Research Fellow at Columbia Law School in January 2016. From 2010 to 2015, he served as the UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva. Prior to his service with the United Nations, Dr. Aleinikoff was a professor at Georgetown University Law Center (1997-2010), where he also served as dean (2004-2010). He was a professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School from 1981 to 1997 and was also co-chair of the Immigration Task Force for President Barack Obama’s transition team. From 1994 to 1997, Dr. Aleinikoff served as the general counsel, and then executive associate commissioner for programs, at the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).He has published numerous articles in the areas of immigration, race, statutory interpretation, and constitutional law, and he is also the author of the principal text and casebooks on US immigration. Dr. Aleinikoff’s most recent scholarship includes: co-editor (with Douglas Klusmeyer) of Citizenship Today: Global Perspectives and Practices; co-author (with Douglas Klusmeyer) of From Migrants to Citizens: Membership in a Changing World; co-author (with David Martin and Hiroshi Motomura) of Immigration: Process and Policy; co-author (with John Garvey) of Modern Constitutional Theory: A Reader; and author of Semblances of Sovereignty: The Constitution, The State, and American Citizenship. His most recent book is Citizenship Policies for an Age of Migration.

J. Kevin Appleby
Director, Office of Migration Policy and Public Affairs
Migration and Refugee Services, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

Kevin Appleby directs the Migration and Refugee Services (MRS) Office of Migration and Refugee Policy at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. In that role he assists the bishops in the development and promotion of migration and refugee policy positions within the context of the Church’s social and moral teaching; he also implements communication, public education/outreach, and legislative strategies that foster greater advocacy, awareness, understanding, and support for the work of MRS and the vulnerable populations it serves. Mr. Appleby holds a law degree from the University of Maryland and a master’s degree in international affairs from George Washington University. He speaks often on immigration issues to local and national groups.  Mr. Appleby has worked on Capitol Hill for Senator Russell Long of Louisiana and the Senate Select Committee on Iran-Contra.

William Canny
Executive Director, Migration and Refugee Services
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

William Canny is the executive director of the Department of Migration and Refugee Services at the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). He joined USCCB/MRS in May 2015. Mr. Canny brings with him a demonstrated commitment to — and a wealth of experience in — providing service to migrants, refugees, and others in need. He has served as secretary general of the International Catholic Migration Commission and in various leadership roles within Catholic Relief Services, including as director of emergency operations for the period including the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake.  Most recently, Mr. Canny was chief operating officer of the Papal Foundation, which supports the personal charitable initiatives of Pope Francis.

Claudia Cappa
Statistics Specialist (Child Protection, Child Disability, ECD)
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

Claudia Cappa, PhD, is statistics specialist in the Data and Analytics Section, Division of Data, Research and Policy, at the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) headquarters. She is the focal point for data collection, data analysis, and methodological work on early childhood development, child disability, and child protection from violence, exploitation, and abuse. The support for these activities includes elaboration of survey questionnaires and data collection tools, data analysis, production of reports, as well as delivery and dissemination of final results. In this capacity, Dr. Cappa has been responsible for the preparation of a number of data-driven publications, including the recent UNICEF reports on birth registration (Every Child’s Birth Right: Inequities and Trends in Birth Registration) and violence against children (Hidden in Plain Sight: A Statistical Analysis of Violence against Children). Prior to joining UNICEF, she was working at the University of Geneva and at the Institute for Social Studies of the International Labour Organization. Dr. Cappa holds a master of arts degree and doctorate in development studies from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland.

Hein de Haas
Professor of Sociology
University of Amsterdam

Hein de Haas is a professor of sociology, with a special focus on the study of migration and social cohesion, at the University of Amsterdam’s (UvA) Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. From 2011 to 2015, he co-directed the International Migration Institute (IMI) at the University of Oxford; and, from 2006 to 2011, he served as senior researcher and university lecturer in Migration Studies at the Oxford Department of International Development (ODID) at Oxford University. In addition, Professor de Haas is honorary professor of migration and development at the University of Maastricht.

In his research, he focuses on the reciprocal linkages between migration and broader processes of social transformation and development in origin and destination countries. Professor de Haas’s theoretical and empirical publications cover a wide range of issues, including migration determinants, the effectiveness of migration policies, the development implications of migration, transnationalism, and rural-urban transformations. He has extensive fieldwork experience in the Middle East and North Africa and, particularly, in Morocco.

Professor de Haas is co-author (with Stephen Castles and Mark Miller) of The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World, a leading text book in the field of migration studies.

Most Rev. Nicholas DiMarzio
Bishop of Brooklyn

The Most Rev. Nicholas DiMarzio has led the Brooklyn Diocese since October 2003. He has been a forceful voice on behalf of migrants and immigrants since his ordination to the priesthood in 1970. Bishop DiMarzio received a master’s degree in social work from Fordham University and a doctorate in social work research and policy from Rutgers University.

In 1976, Bishop DiMarzio was appointed refugee resettlement director and the director of the Office of Migration at Catholic Community Services for the Archdiocese of Newark. In 1985, he was appointed executive director of Migration and Refugee Services for the US Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington and, in 1986, was named Prelate of Honor by Pope John Paul II. Bishop DiMarzio frequently testified on matters affecting migrants and immigrants before the committees of the US House of Representatives. In 1991, he was appointed executive director of Catholic Community Services and vicar for human services for the Archdiocese of Newark. In 1996, Bishop DiMarzio was ordained auxiliary bishop of Newark, and, in 1999, was installed as the sixth bishop of Camden in New Jersey.

From 2003 to 2005, he served as the US representative on the Global Commission on International Migration, a 19-member body sponsored by the United Nations. Furthermore, Bishop DiMarzio is a member of the US Bishops’ Migration Committee and their Domestic Justice and Human Development Committee, and serves on the CLINIC Board. He is also a member of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People. Bishop DiMarzio also serves as board chair for the Center for Migration Studies as well as the Migration Policy Institute.

His weekly column in the Brooklyn Diocese newspaper, The Tablet, offers reflections on issues affecting the faithful.

Lisa Frydman
Director of Regional Policy and Initiatives
Kids in Need of Defense (KIND)

Lisa Frydman serves as KIND’s director of regional policy and initiatives. She was a co-editor and contributing author of Childhood, Migration, and Human Rights in Central and North America: Causes, Policies, Practices, and Challenges, a study on children affected by migration in Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, and the United States, written in collaboration with organizations from each country and funded by the MacArthur Foundation. Previously, Ms. Frydman was managing attorney at the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies (CGRS). Throughout her eight years at CGRS, she worked to advance law and policy for immigrant women, children, and asylum seekers through impact litigation, national policy advocacy, and extensive training and mentoring of attorneys. Prior to CGRS, Ms. Frydman practiced child immigration and child welfare law at Legal Services for Children. She began her legal career as an Equal Justice Works fellow at the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center representing immigrant children before the Immigration Court and Board of Immigration Appeals. Ms. Frydman has trained and mentored attorneys across the country and has presented to federal judges, immigration judges, and asylum officers. She is a 2002 graduate of University of California Berkeley School of Law, Order of the Coif, and a 1996 graduate of the University of Maryland, magna cum laude.

Karen T. Grisez
Special Counsel, Public Service Counsel
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP

Karen T. Grisez is public service counsel in the Washington, DC office of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, where she manages the office’s pro bono program and provides both supervision and direct representation to pro bono clients in immigration cases, as well as in traditional poverty law areas.  She has extensive litigation experience in federal courts, before the Board of Immigration Appeals and in Immigration Courts around the country, and also practices in other courts in the District of Columbia and Maryland.  Ms. Grisez is also a frequent speaker and trainer on legal topics relating primarily to asylum, other forms of immigration relief, immigration court reform, detention, ethics, representation of victims of torture and trauma, and on various models for delivery of pro bono services generally.  She has testified twice before Congress on immigration-related topics.

Ms. Grisez is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Center for Migration Studies based in New York. She is also a member of the ABA’s Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service, Special Advisor to the ABA Commission on Immigration and its past Chair.  She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers’ Association, serves on its national Pro Bono Committee, and is Chair of the DC Chapter’s Pro Bono Committee.  Ms. Grisez also serves on the Board of Directors of the Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights (CAIR) Coalition, the Board of Directors of the Washington Council of Lawyers and is a Trustee of the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs.

Ms. Grisez earned her J.D. in 1990 from the Columbus School of Law of the Catholic University of America, and her B.A., summa cum laude, in 1987 from the University of Maryland.  She is admitted to the bars of the District of Columbia and of Maryland, as well as to a number of federal courts.

Douglas Gurak
Professor Emeritus of Development Sociology
Cornell University
Editor, International Migration Review
Center for Migration Studies

Douglas T. Gurak is professor emeritus of development sociology at Cornell University. Prior to joining Cornell, he spent 15 years researching and teaching in New York City at the Center for Policy Research and Fordham University’s Hispanic Research Center and Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Dr. Gurak received a master’s degree and doctorate from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. At Cornell, he served as the director of the Population and Development Program, the Polson Institute for Global Development, and the Graduate Field of Development Sociology. Since 2010, Dr. Gurak has been a team member of the Institute for the Social Sciences’ interdisciplinary theme project, “Immigration: Settlement, Integration, and Membership.” His research focuses on the process of human migration, and he is currently involved in the investigation of processes shaping the internal migration of foreign-born persons in the United States to non-traditional immigration destinations. This research is supported by the Russell Sage Foundation and involves working with confidential census data at the New York Census Research Data Center. In November 2014, Dr. Gurak was appointed as the editor of the International Migration Review published by the Center for Migration Studies (CMS).

Donald Kerwin
Executive Director
Center for Migration Studies

Donald Kerwin directs the Center for Migration Studies (CMS), a New York-based educational institute/think tank devoted to the study of international migration, to the promotion of understanding between immigrants and receiving communities, and to public policies that safeguard the dignity and rights of migrants, refugees, and newcomers. CMS was established in 1964 by the Congregation of the Missionaries of St. Charles, Scalabrinians. It is a member of the Scalabrini International Migration Network (SIMN), which consists of more than 270 organizations that serve, safeguard, and advocate for migrants throughout the world. Mr. Kerwin previously worked for 16 years at the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC), serving as that agency’s executive director for 15 years. CLINIC, a subsidiary of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), is a public interest legal corporation that supports a national network of charitable legal programs for immigrants. He has also served as interim executive director at CLINIC; as vice president for programs and non-resident senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute; and as an associate fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center and co-director of Woodstock’s Theology of Migration Project. Mr. Kerwin has also served on numerous boards, commissions, and task forces. He currently serves on the board of directors for the Border Network for Human Rights in El Paso, Texas.

Tara Magner

Tara Magner is a program officer in the policy research area of US programs for the MacArthur Foundation. She joined the MacArthur Foundation in 2012 after serving as senior counsel to the chairman of the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, from 2009 to 2012. Ms. Magner’s issue responsibilities on the committee included immigration, refugee protection, human rights, and national security matters. After the 2008 election, she was a member of President Obama’s Transition Policy Working Group on Immigration. Ms. Magner also served from 2007 to 2009 as a commissioner on the American Bar Association’s Commission on Immigration.  From 2006 to 2009, she was the director of policy at the National Immigrant Justice Center in Chicago.  Ms. Magner previously served as a counsel and professional staff member to Senator Leahy on the Committee on the Judiciary. During that time (2001-2006), she handled matters relating to immigration, terrorism, human rights, the Freedom of Information Act, and government secrecy. Earlier in her career, Ms. Magner served as deputy director of the Winston Foundation, awarding grants on international human rights, refugee protection, and conflict resolution. She has published articles with MIT Press, the International Journal of Refugee Law, and the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal.  Ms. Magner received her undergraduate degree at Wesleyan University and her law degree at Georgetown University Law Center.

David A. Martin
Warner-Booker Distinguished Professor of International Law
University of Virginia Law School

David A. Martin, the Warner-Booker Distinguished Professor of International Law at the University of Virginia, is a leading scholar in immigration, constitutional law, and international law. Mr. Martin has been a member of the Virginia faculty since 1980 and has published numerous books and articles in scholarly journals, including a leading casebook (co-authored) on immigration and citizenship law, now in its seventh edition. His op-ed commentary has been published in The Washington Post, The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, Legal Times, and The National Law Journal, among others.

Mr. Martin also has over seven years of federal public service, most of it during periodic leave from the university. As an officer in the human rights bureau at the US Department of State during the Carter administration, general counsel of the Immigration and Naturalization Service under President Clinton, and principal deputy general counsel of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the first two years of the Obama administration, he was closely involved in critical legal and policy developments in the immigration field. These included the Refugee Act of 1980, a major alteration of US asylum procedures in 1995, implementation of the 1996 statutory amendments to the immigration laws, and the federal government’s 2010 lawsuit against Arizona’s restrictive immigration enforcement law.  Mr. Martin also served as DHS’s representative on the interdepartmental task forces created by President Obama’s executive orders for evaluating the cases of all detainees at Guantanamo and for reviewing overall detention policies in the nation’s efforts against terrorism.

A graduate of DePauw University and Yale Law School, he was selected as a law clerk for Judge J. Skelly Wright and Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr.  Mr. Martin served for many years on the board of editors of the International Migration Review and the American Journal of International Law.  From 2003 to 2005, he was vice president of the American Society of International Law, and he chaired the Immigration Section of the Association of American Law Schools during its early years.

Karen Mercado
President
Be Foundation Derecho a La Identidad

Karen Mercado is founder and president of Be Foundation Derecho a la Identidad, also known as BE FOUNDATION, a leading non-governmental organization advocating for the reform of Article 4 of the Mexican Constitution, which explicitly establishes the right of every person to free birth registration. Her expertise is focused on the under-registration of births and lack of legal identity and the importance of birth registration as a component of civil and political rights and its relevance to every person in ensuring access to basic social services and diminishing social exclusion. Ms. Mercado has been invited to speak at national and international conferences and leading universities in Mexico and the United States, and has published articles and research results in the Migration Information Source of the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Mark Miller
Emma Smith Professor of Political Science and International Relations
University of Delaware

Professor Mark Miller is the Emma Smith Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware. He has taught at the university since 1978; and in 2007 received the Francis X. Alison award, the highest honor accorded faculty at the University of Delaware. Professor Miller graduated from the University of Wisconsin and later received a French government scholarship for dissertation research on immigrant political participation in Western Europe at L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He is the author or co-author of six books and has authored or co-authored over 100 articles, book chapters, monographs, and reviews, including several in French and German. Professor Miller served on the editorial board of the International Migration Review from 1982 to 2013. He was appointed assistant editor in 1984 and was the managing editor from 1998 to 2005. Professor Miller has served as the US correspondent to SOPEMI (the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s group of migration experts), drafting their annual report on international migration from 1984 to 1986. He has also been a consultant to the US departments of State, Labor, and Justice, the International Labour Organization, the United Nations, the World Bank, and was a member of the US delegation to the “Future of Migration” conference held in Paris in 1986. Professor Miller has testified on developments in European migration policies for Congress and several US commissions. Since 1990, he has lectured on European migration developments at the US Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute. Professor Miller has also contributed to proceedings of the National Intelligence Council. In 2001, he lectured on North American migration questions in Mexico and participated in the Germany Today program, sponsored by the Federal Republic of Germany. From 2003 to 2005 and again from 2009 to 2011, Professor Miller served as academic co-director of US Department of State-funded institutes on US foreign and national security policy. From 2008 to 2010, he served on the Immigration Council of the World Economic Forum. Professor Miller taught at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Lyon in 2005 and was a distinguished visiting professor at American University of Cairo in 2012.

Juan Ricardo Ortega
Operations Principal Advisor
Inter-American Development Bank

Juan Ricardo Ortega is a leading specialist at the Department of Institutional Capacity and Finance Sector at the Inter-American Development Bank. He studied economics at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá and has a master’s degree in development economics and did doctoral studies at Yale University. Mr. Ortega is a former director of DIAN, the Colombian tax agency, where he is credited to have fought corruption and considerably increased tax revenues. Among other distinguished appointments, he has been treasury secretary of Bogotá, vice finance minister and director of Fogafín, and a consultant for different international and national agencies.

Michele Pistone
Professor of Law and Director of the Clinic for Asylum, Refugee, and Emigrant Services (CARES)
Villanova University School of Law
Co-Managing Editor, Journal on Migration and Human Security
Center for Migration Studies

Michele Pistone is a co-managing editor of the Center for Migration Studies’ Journal on Migration and Human Security (JMHS) and has written extensively on immigration and refugee protection, including on issues related to detention of asylum seekers, the one-year deadline for asylum applications, expedited removal, overseas refugee resettlement, as well as on the migration of skilled and educated migrants.  Her book, Stepping Out of the Brain Drain: Applying Catholic Social Thought in a New Era of Migration (Lexington Books), which she co-authored with John J. Hoeffner, as well as other articles and book chapters, looks at migration through the lens of Catholic Social Thought. Mrs. Pistone is also professor of law at Villanova University School of Law, where she has taught since 1999. At Villanova, she founded the Clinic for Asylum, Refugee, and Emigrant Services (CARES).  Through CARES, Mrs. Pistone works with law students to provide free legal representation to asylum seekers and others fleeing persecution and violence.

J. Rachel Reyes
Communications Coordinator
Center for Migration Studies

J. Rachel Reyes is the communications coordinator for the Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS). Prior to joining CMS in January 2012, Ms. Reyes worked with Global Justice Center, PeaceWomen Project, the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Population at the Council of Europe, and Asylum Access. Ms. Reyes is the author of “Deliver Us from Our Protectors: Accountability for Violations Committed by Humanitarian Aid Staff against Refugee Women and Children,” published in the University of San Francisco Law Review. Ms. Reyes holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Arts in International Affairs from The New School. Ms. Reyes received her Juris Doctorate from the University of San Francisco, and is an attorney admitted to the State Bar of California.