The authors provide detailed and important recommendations on issues of acquisition of citizenship, dual nationality, and the political, social, and economic rights of immigrants.
This person is no longer with the Carnegie Endowment as of 9/2001. He can be reached at the Migration Policy Institute.
Alexander Aleinikoff directs the Comparative Citizenship Project and focuses on such issues as the rights and obligations of citizens and aliens, dual nationality, and naturalization policies. He is also a professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center.
Before joining the Endowment, Mr. Aleinikoff was executive associate commissioner for programs at the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) at the U.S. Department of Justice. He was general counsel to the INS during 1994 and 1995. Prior to that, he taught at the University of Michigan Law School.
Educated at Swarthmore College and Yale Law School, he has written Immigration and Citizenship: Process and Policy and Modern Constitutional Theory: A Reader. He writes frequently on immigration law and has published in numerous law journals. He is presently on the Committee on International Migration of the Social Science Research Council.
Selected Publications
The authors provide detailed and important recommendations on issues of acquisition of citizenship, dual nationality, and the political, social, and economic rights of immigrants.
The Carnegie Endowment hosted a meeting to introduce the United States Commitee for Refugees' World Refugee Survey 2001. Experts discussed refugee trends in 2000.
The International Migration Policy Program co-sponsored a roundtable discussion on UNHCR's Global Consultations.
The International Migration Policy Program launched its latest book, Citizenship Today: Global Perspectives and Practices
Citizenship policies are changing rapidly in the face of global migration trends and the inevitable ethnic and racial diversity that follows.
The Metropolis Project is a cooperative international policy research effort that includes public and private sector institutions from 18 countries and three intergovernmental organizations. The Fourth International Metropolis Conference was held in Washington, DC, in December 1999.