Reflections on Trade Liberalization Agreements and Foreign Direct Investment
By Demetrios Papademetriou
International Migration Development and Integration: Towards a Comprehensive Approach
Sweden: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, December 1999

Green Card Solution
By Alexander Aleinikoff
American Prospect, Vol.11, Issue 3, December 20, 1999

Migration Trends in Russia and the CIS and their Potential Consequences for Europe (PDF)
By Demetrios Papademetriou
Illegal Migration
Varus Verlag, October 1999

Immigrants and Citizenship Today: A Comparative Perspective
Research Perspectives on Migration
Fall 1999

On the eve of the 21st century, it is evident that formal citizenship matters greatly in the United States and elsewhere. States are increasingly taking steps to rethink issues of citizenship, dual nationality and immigrant integration even as immigrants themselves continue to make complicated choices of membership. In this special issue of Research Perspectives on Migration, we address these questions of citizenship and immigration in three sections: (1) Integrating Foreigners, (2) When Immigrants Naturalize, and (3) After Nationality, Then What? This issue spotlights the developing trends in citizenship in the United States, Western Europe, Canada, and Israel by explaining new research on states’ immigrant integration practices, nationality policies, immigrants’ membership and naturalization choices, and supranational citizenship.

Campaign for the Unpaid Wages Prohibition Act: Latino Immigrants Change New York Wage Law
By Jennifer Gordon
Carnegie Endowment Working Paper #4, August 1999

On September 17, 1997, the Unpaid Wages Prohibition Act was signed, giving New York State the strongest wage enforcement law in the country. The campaign that won the Act was conceived of and led by immigrant workers and members of the Workplace Project, a nonprofit workers center in Long Island. It was supported by a broad coalition of business, labor, religious, and community groups, as well as two other workers centers, the Latino Workers Center and the Chinese Staff and Workers Association.

Jennifer Gordon describes the campaign's origins and strategy, explores lessons that were learned and that may be useful to other groups seeking to carry out similar efforts, and suggests ways that the campaign could be used as the basis for a model of active citizenship education.

Politics at the Heart: The Architecture of Humanitarian Assistance to Afghanistan
By Paula Newburg
Carnegie Endowment Working Paper #2, July 1999

This essay examines the environment, actors, and institutional choices that face the international assistance community working in Afghanistan. The contexts in which it works and in which its collective decisions are taken are exceptionally difficult to define and reconcile, all the more so for the sheer length and accrued political histories of Afghanistan's conflicts. And if Afghanistan's travails present an array of moving targets, so too do the choices that aid organizations have taken during the past decade. UN agencies, international and local NGOs, and donor governments have offered a menu of relief and development alternatives that is often bewildering in its richness and complexity.

Balancing Acts: Toward a Fair Bargain on Seasonal Agricultural Workers
By Demetrios Papademetriou; Monica L. Heppel
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1999

The authors take a hard look at the complicated issue of perishable-crop agriculture and its workforce. They offer a number of suggestions for retaining the robust competitiveness of the industry while dramaticallly improving the working conditions of those whose labor is an important factor in its success. Among their recommendations are ways to guarantee the agriculture sector a legal supply of labor in return for improved conditions for those workers.

Modern Constitutional Theory: A Reader
By T. Alexander Aleinikoff, John H. Garvey, and Daniel A. Farber
American Casebook Series, West Group, 4th ed., 1999

This volume first examines current influential theories of the Constitution, then examines various proposals for interpreting the Constitution, and then covers judicial review. Other chapters correspond with the major topics covered in constitutional law casebooks. The authors ask what and whose purposes are served by existing rules, and inquire whether some other organization is preferable. The selections take opposing positions on each subject, to make students aware of existing conflicts and to facilitate class discussion.