Citizenship, Borders, and Gender: Mobility and Immobility

Participant Biographies

	Alexander Aleinikoff
	Robert Barsky
	Seyla Benhabib
	Jacqueline Bhabha
	Linda Bosniak
	Alicia Schmidt Camacho
	Dilek Cinar
	Vilashini Cooppan
	Catherine Dauvergne
	Vicki C. Jackson
	David Jacobson
	Suad Joseph
	Linda Kerber
	Nicola Lacey
	Audrey Macklin
	Angelia Means
	Valentine Moghadam
	Patrizia Nanz
	Gerald Neuman
	Aihwa Ong
	Cynthia Patterson
	Judith Resnik
	Reva Siegel
	Sarah van Walsum
	Jay Winter

Alexander Aleinikoff

Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

T. Alexander Aleinikoff is a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center and a Senior Associate at the Migration Policy Institute. He has written widely on immigration, refugee and citizenship law and constitutional law. His most recent books include, Migration and International Law (ed), (Asser Press forthcoming 2003); Semblances of Sovereignty: The Constitution, the State and American Citizenship (Harvard U. Press 2002), and Citizenship Policies for an Age of Migration (with Douglas Klusmeyer) (Carnegie Endowment for Int’l Peace/Migration Policy Institute 2002). Professor Aleinikoff served as General Counsel and Executive Associate Commissioner for Programs at the Immigration and Naturalization Service for several years during the Clinton Administration. He is a graduate of Swarthmore College and Yale Law School.

Robert Barsky

Associate Professor of English, University of Western Ontario

Visiting Fellow, Canadian Studies Committee, Yale University

Robert Barsky is Yale's Canadian Bicentennial Visiting Professor (2002) and Visiting Fellow in Comparative Literature and at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies. An authority in the study of refugee narratives and the Canadian adjudication process, he started the "Article 13 refugee initiative" in 2001 to promote freer movement across borders. He is the author of Constructing a Productive Other: Discourse Theory and the Convention Refugee Hearing (1994), Noam Chomsky: A life of Dissent (1997) and Arguing and Justifying: Assessing the Convention Refugee Choice of Moment, Motive and Host Country (2000).

Seyla Benhabib

Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Yale University

Seyla Benhabib, '77 Ph.D., is Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy and Director  Ethics, Politics and Economics. Her research and teaching focus on 19th and 20th century German social and political thought, moral philosophy, and most recently citizenship studies.  Also a renowned feminist theorist, Professor Benhabib came to Yale from Harvard University, where from 1993 to 2001 she was Professor in the Department of Government and Chair of Harvard's Committee on Degrees in Social Studies from 1997-2000.  She also chaired the Standing Committee on the Status of Women in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences from 1995-97 at Harvard.  She is the author or co-author of seven books, including most recently, The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (Sage 1996; reissued by Rowman and Littlefield 2003); Transformations of Citizenship. Dilemmas of the Nation-State in the Global Era (The Baruch de Spinoza lectures, Amsterdam, 2001) and The Claims of Culture.  Equality and Diversity in the Global Era (Princeton 2003).

Jacqueline Bhabha

Executive Director, University Committee on Human Rights Studies, Harvard University

Jacqueline Bhabha is Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy. A graduate of Oxford University, she is the executive director of the University Committee on Human Rights Studies at Harvard University and a lecturer at Harvard Law School. From 1997 to 2001, she directed the Human Rights Program at the University of Chicago. Prior to 1997, Ms. Bhabha was a practicing human rights lawyer in London, and before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Her writing on issues of migration and asylum in Europe and the United States include a co-authored book, Women's Movement: Women Under Immigration, Nationality and Refugee Law (1994), an edited volume, Asylum Law And Practice in Europe and North America (1992) and many articles including "Get Back to Where You Once Belonged: Identity, Citizenship and Exclusion in Europe" (1998), "Inconsistent State Intervention and Separated Child Asylum Seekers" (2001) and "Internationalist Gatekeepers? The tension between asylum advocacy and human rights" (2002). She is currently writing a book titled Moving Children: Migration, Childhood and the Quest for Rights. She teaches international human rights and refugee law. She serves on the board of the U.S. section of International Social Services.

Linda Bosniak

Professor of Law, Rutgers University

Linda Bosniak is Professor of Law at Rutgers University. She has written widely on the subjects of immigration, citizenship, rights, and nationalism in law and political theory. Professor Bosniak holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University, an M.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. She recently completed a year as a Faculty Fellow and Visiting Professor at Princeton’s Law and Public Affairs Program. In 2003-2004, she will serve as Director of the year-long faculty seminar on “Citizenship” at the Center For the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture (CCACC) at Rutgers. She is currently at work on a book entitled The Citizen and the Alien (Princeton University Press, forthcoming).

Alicia Schmidt Camacho

Assistant Professor of American Studies, Yale University

Alicia Schmidt Camacho received her Ph.D. from Stanford University's Modern Thought and Language program in 2000, where she completed a dissertation titled “Migrant Subjects: Race, Labor and Insurgency in the Mexico-U.S. Borderlands.” She is an Assistant Professor of American Studies, with affiliations to the programs in Women's and Gender Studies, African American studies and Ethnicity Race and Migration. Her work in comparative ethnic and gender studies examines the relationship of labor and social movements to vernacular cultural production in the twentieth century Americas. 

Dilek Cinar

European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research

Dilek Çinar, born 1961 (Izmit/Turkey), is a Research Fellow at the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research since 1996. She studied political science (post-graduate) at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) in Vienna from 1988-1990 and received her Ph.D. in Social Sciences and Economics from the University of Vienna in 1999. Before joining the European Centre she was a Research Fellow at the IAS. She was/is a lecturer at the Universities of Innsbruck (2003) and Klagenfurt (1991 and 1995). In fall 2000 she was a visiting fellow with the International Migration Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC, where she conducted research on anti-discrimination law and affirmative action in the U.S. Her research interests include citizenship studies and cross-national comparison of naturalization law and practice, anti-discrimination and affirmative action policies in the EU and the U.S., feminist legal studies and political theory, theories of racism/ethnicity, multiculturalism and identity politics.

Vilashini Cooppan

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Yale University

Vilashini Cooppan is assistant professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University. Her teaching and research interests include post-colonial literature and theory, the literatures of slavery and African literature, world literature and globalization theory. She has developed Yale’s first abolition, the literature and culture of the South Asian diaspora, pre-and post-apartheid South course in World Literatures and presently organizes a faculty seminar on globalization and culture under the auspices of the Ford Foundation’s “Crossing Borders Initiative,” one of a dozen grants nationwide to encourage academic study of migration, modernity, and globalization and to foster the rethinking of area studies.

She has published articles on post-colonial theory “W(h)ither Post-Colonial Studies? Towards the Transnational Study of Race and Nation,” Postcolonial Theory and Criticism, eds. Benita Parry and Laura Chrisman for The English Association Essays and Studies series (Suffolk, UK: Boydell & Brewer Ltd., 1999)], on psychoanalysis and nationalism [“Mourning Becomes Kitsch: The Aesthetics of Loss in Severo Sarduy’s Cobra,” Loss: The Social and Psychic Work of Mourning, eds. David Kazanjian and David Eng (University of California Press-Berkeley 2002), on W.E.B. Du Bois’s anti-colonial politics [“Walking the Line: Domestic Science, Transnational Politics, and Gendered Ideology in Du Bois,” in W.E.B. Du Bois and the Gender of the Color Line, eds. Susan Gillman and Alys Weinbaum (forthcoming from University of California Press]], on new South African literature [“National Literature in Transnational Times: Writing Transition in the “new” South Africa,” in Nation, Language and the Ethics of Translation, eds. Sandra Berman and Michael Wood (forthcoming from Princeton University Press)], and on world literature and globalization [“World Literature and Global Theory: Comparative Literature for the New Millennium,” Symploke, special issue on Globalism and Theory, ed. Jeffrey Dimeo, December 2001]. She is currently working on a book entitled “Inner Territories: Phantasms of the Nation in Post-colonial Literature.”

Catherine Dauvergne

Canada Research Chair in Migration Law, University of British Columbia

Catherine Dauvergne has recently taken up a Canada Research Chair in Migration Law at the University of British Columbia, Faculty of Law. She moved to Vancouver after being a member of the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney and completing her PhD in Law at the Australian National University. Catherine researches in the areas of immigration and refugee law. She is presently involved in three projects: one considering the place of illegal migration in accounts of globalization; a second examining the effects of recent changes to Canada’s refugee determination program on women applicants; and a third comparing international approaches to the determination of refugee claims on the basis of sexual orientation.

Vicki C. Jackson

Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

Vicki Jackson is currently Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. She received her J.D. from Yale Law School, clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and practiced law for several years before joining the Georgetown faculty. She teaches courses in constitutional law, comparative constitutional law, federal courts, the Supreme Court, and on gender-related subjects. She is co-author with Professor Mark Tushnet of a coursebook, Comparative Constitutional Law (1999), and co-editor with Professor Tushnet of a collection of scholarly essays, Defining the Field of Comparative Constitutional Law (2002); she also serves as an Articles Editor for I.Con, the International Journal of Constitutional Law. She has written many scholarly essays and articles on such topics as federalism, sovereign immunity, freedom of speech, constitutional interpretation, gender and transnational discourse, and citizenship and federalism. In addition to her academic work, she has engaged in public service and pro bono activities, including serving as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice (2000-01); as a member of the D.C. Bar Board of Governors (1999-2002); as co-counsel on the Law Professors’ Amicus Brief in United States v. Morrisson; and as a co-chair of the Special Committee on Gender of the D.C. Circuit Task Force on Gender, Race, and Ethic Bias (1992-95).

David Jacobson

Professor, Arizona State University

David Jacobson is Associate Professor of Sociology at Arizona State University. His work is in political sociology from a global, cultural and legal perspective, with a particular interest in immigration, citizenship and international institutions. He has written two books, Place and Belonging in America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002), and Rights Across Borders: Immigration and the Decline of Citizenship (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), and is editor of Identities, Borders and Orders: New Perspectives in International Relations (University of Minnesota Press, 2001, with Mathias Albert and Yosef Lapid); The Immigration Reader: America in Multidisciplinary Perspective (Blackwell, 1998); and Old Nations, New World: Conceptions of the World Order (Westview Press, 1994), among other publications. Jacobson is a Member of the Cycladic Academy for Europe in Athens and Tinos, Greece; Research Associate of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego; and a member of the editorial board and review editor of Human Rights Review. He is presently working on "global judicialization," with a particular interest in international courts, from universal jurisdiction to the International Criminal Court.

Suad Joseph

Professor of Anthropology and Women’s Studies, University of California at Davis

Suad Joseph is Professor of Anthropology and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Davis. She has carried out urban and village fieldwork in her native Lebanon for over 30 years on issues ranging from the politicization of religion; the intersections of religion, state, community organization and family systems; women and gender constructions; women’s networks; citizenship and civil society; transformations in notions of rights and citizenship. She is currently carrying out a long-term study, begun in 1994, on how children in Lebanon learn gendered notions of rights, responsibilities, nationality and citizenship in the aftermath of war. Her most recent books include: Intimate Selving: Self, Gender and Identity in Arab Families, (Editor), 1999, Syracuse University Press; Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East (Editor), 2000, Syracuse University Press; Building Citizenship in Lebanon (Co-Editor), 1999, Lebanese American University Press; Gender and Citizenship in Lebanon (Co-Editor), 1999, Dar al Jadid Press; Women and Power in the Middle East (Co-Editor), 2001, University of Pennsylvania Press. She is Gender Editor of the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, a 4,000,000 word, six-volume project which covers women and Islamic cultures globally, transhistorically and across disciplines. EWIC expects to have about 1,000 authors from around the world, covering all topics of relevance to women in society in which Islam has had a significant presence. It is the first such encyclopedia on women and Islamic cultures. Volume I is due to be published in 2003, Volumes I and II in 2004, and Volumes IV, V, and VI in 2005. She is also the founder of the Arab Families Working Group. AFWG is a group of eighteen scholars, planners, and policy makers working collaboratively to do comparative and interdisciplinary research on families in Egypt, Lebanon, and Palestine. They are planning the publication of a series of state of the art volumes on Arab families in those countries, with the first volume to be complete in 2004. She is also the founder and first President of the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies, the main organization in North America, Europe, and the Middle East for scholars carrying out research on women in the Middle East. She also founded the Middle East Research Group in Anthropology, which evolved into the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association. She has three edited volumes in preparation: Women and Human Rights in Muslim Communities; Subject Making in Muslim Communities; and an English translation of Building Citizenship in Lebanon.

Linda Kerber

May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts and Professor of History, University of Iowa

Linda K. Kerber is the May Brodbeck Professor in the Liberal Arts and Professor of History at the University of Iowa.  She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has served as president of the American Studies Association and the organization of American historians.  Her most recent book is No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies:  Women and the Obligations of Citizenship  (1998), which won the Littleton-Griswold Prize for the best book in U.S. legal history and the Joan Kelley Prize for the best book in women's history, both awarded by the American Historical Association.  This spring  (2003) she is a Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

Nicola Lacey

Professor of Criminal law, London School of Economics

Adjunct Professor of Social and Political Theory, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University

Nicola Lacey was Fellow in Law at New College Oxford from 1984-95, before taking up a chair at Birkbeck College in 1995. She moved to the Chair of Criminal Law at LSE in 1998. She works in the fields of criminal law, criminal justice and legal and social theory, with a particular interest in feminist theory. Her publications include State Punishment (Routledge 1988): with Celia Wells and Oliver Quick, Reconstructing Criminal Law (3^rd ed. Forthcoming 2003, Butterworths); with Elizabeth Frazer, The Politics of Community: A feminist analysis of the liberal-commutarian debate (Harvester 1993); Unspeakable Subjects (Hart Publishing 1998).

Audrey Macklin

Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

Audrey Macklin is an associate professor at the Faculty of Law. She holds law degrees from Yale and Toronto. In 1989-90, she served as law clerk to Mme Justice Bertha Wilson at the Supreme Court of Canada. In 1994-96, Audrey also served as a member of the Convention Refugee Determination Division of the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board. This practical experience of adjudicating asylum claims has informed her subsequent teaching and scholarship.

Professor Macklin’s teaching areas include criminal law, administrative law, and immigration and refugee law. Her research and writing interests include transnational migration, citizenship, forced migration, feminist and cultural analysis, and corporate responsibility for violations of human rights and humanitarian law. She has published on these subjects in journals such as Refuge and Canadian Woman Studies, and in collections of essays such as The Security of Freedom: Essays on Canada's Anti-Terrorism Bill and Engendering Forced Migration. In 1999, Professor Macklin was a member of a human rights fact-finding mission to Sudan appointed by Canada’s Foreign Minister. In 2001, she participated with Canadian women of Jewish, Palestinian and Arab background in a mission to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Angelia Means

Department of Government, Dartmouth College

Angelia Means is an Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College. She received her Ph.D from Harvard University in 2000, and her J.D. from Harvard Law in 1993. After law school, she was a Ford Fellow in Public International Law and an Ethics Fellow at Harvard’s Ethics Program. She was also a law clerk at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Her research and teaching focus on democratic theory, aesthetic theory, feminist theory, immigration and public international law. She has published an article on “Narrative Argumentation” and is currently working on a manuscript on deliberative democracy and cultural rights for “natives” and “aliens”, and an article on the International Criminal Court.

Valentine Moghadam

Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies, Illinois State University

Dr. Valentine M. Moghadam is Director of Women’s Studies and Associate Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University. Born in Tehran, Iran, Dr. Moghadam received her higher education in Canada and the U.S. After obtaining her Ph.D. in sociology from the American University in Washington, D.C. in 1986, she taught the sociology of development and women in development at New York University. From 1990 through 1995 she was Senior Researcher and Coordinator of the Research Program on Women and Development at the WIDER Institute of the United Nations University (UNU/WIDER), and was based in Helsinki, Finland. She was a member of the UNU delegation to two UN conferences: the World Summit on Social Development (Copenhagen, March 1995), and the Fourth World Conference on Women (in Beijing in September 1995).

Dr. Moghadam has written two books, Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East (1993 – updated second edition due mid-2003), and Women, Work and Economic Reform in the Middle East and North Africa (1998). She is completing a third book entitled Globalizing Women: Globalization, Transnational Feminist Networks, and Public Policy. In addition, she has edited six books, including Identity Politics and Women: Cultural Reassertions and Feminisms in International Perspective (1994), Democratic Reform and the Position of Women in Transition Economies (1993), and Patriarchy and Development: Women’s Positions at the End of the Twentieth Century (1996). Her most recent journal publication is “Islamic Feminism and Its Discontents: Towards a Resolution of the Debate”, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (vol. 27, no. 4, Summer 2002): 1135-1171. [Reprinted in Gender, Politics, and Islam, edited by Therese Saliba, Carolyn Allen, and Judith Howard, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002, pp. 15-52.].

Her current areas of research are on globalization, transnational feminist networks, civil society and citizenship in the Middle East, and women in Afghanistan. She lectures and publishes widely and consults with several international organizations. She is a contributor to a 2002 report, coordinated by CAWTAR and the UNDP, on the impact of globalization on women’s economic conditions in the Arab world.

Patrizia Nanz

Centre for the Study of Democracy, Westminster University

Dr. Patrizia Nanz is currently a Marie Curie Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, Westminster University London (until August 2003). From September 2003, she will be Professor of International Relations and Political Theory at the Graduate School of Social Sciences at University of Bremen. She has completed her Ph.D. at the European University Institute in 2001 with her dissertation on “Europolis. Constitutional Patriotism beyond the Nation State” for which she has conducted extensive and in-depth interviews with immigrants in Germany. She has written, presented and taught on global governance, the public sphere, the open method of coordination, European integration and immigration. Her publications include many articles in English, German and Italian such as “In-between Nations: Ambivalence and the Making of European Identity”(2000), “OMC – a Deliberative and Democratic Mode of Governance “ (with Caroline de la Porte) (2003), “Global Governance, participation and the public sphere” (with Jens Steffek) (forthcoming), “L’Europa a più voci: una concezione dialogica della sfera pubblica”(2000). Since 1997 she is a correspondent for the journal Mouvements: Societés, politique, culture and since 1999, she is on the editorial board of the journal Etica ed economia. Dr. Nanz currently works on participation and legitimation at global and transnational institutions in various policy areas including immigration and asylum policy in the European Union, the rights of immigrants, human rights.

Gerald Neuman

Herbert Weschsler Professor of Federal Jurisprudence, School of Law, Columbia University

A.B. Harvard, 1973; Ph.D., Massachussets Institute of Technology, 1977 (in Mathematics); J.D., Harvard, 1980. Law cleark to Hon. Abner J. Mikva, D.C. Circuit. Practiced law at Foley, Hoad & Eliot, 1981-84. Was on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1984-92. Visiting Professor at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, 1989. Joined the Columbia faculty in 1992. Visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, 1994, and at the European University Institute, Florence, 1998. Publications include Strangers to the Constitution: Immigrants, Borders and Fundamental Law (1996), Human Rights (1999) (with Louis Henkin, David Leebron, and Diane Orentlicher), and numerous articles in the fields of constitutional law, immigration and nationality law, comparative constitutional law, and human rights law. Principal current research areas include habeas corpus and the rule of law, and transnational dimensions of constitutionalism. Current teaching areas include constitutional law, immigration and nationality law, comparative constitutional law, and U.S. constitutional history.

Aihwa Ong

Professor of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley

Aihwa Ong is Professor of Anthropology and of Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her interests are gender and Islam; Chinese transnationalism; sovereignty, governmentality, and citizenship.

She has carried out fieldwork in Southeast Asia, China, and the United States.

She is the author of the now classic Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline: Factory Women in Malaysia (1987).

Other works include Ungrounded Empires (1997) and Flexible Citizenship (1999), which won the Cultural Studies Prize from the Association for Asian American Studies (2000). Her new book is Buddha is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, the New America (2003). She is co-editor, with Stephen J. Collier of Global Assemblages: Life Forms in Formation (Blackwell, forthcoming).

Cynthia Patterson

Department of History, Emory University

Cynthia Patterson is Associate Professor of History at Emory University.  She is the author of Pericles' Citizenship Law of 451/0 B.C. (1981) and The Family in Greek History (1998) along with articles on aspects of Greek social history including infant exposure, the status of bastards, and the law of marriage.  She received her A.B. in History from Stanford Unversity and Ph.D. in Ancient History from the University of Pennsylvania.  Currently, she is working on editing a collection of essays entitled "Antigone's Answer" and on a monograph on "Public Burial in Ancient Athens."

Judith Resnik

Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale University

Judith Resnik is the Arthur Liman Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She joined the faculty in 1997, when she founded the Liman Public Interest Program.  Professor Resnik teaches and writes about procedure, federalism, and women's rights both domestically and transnationally.  Her recent essays include Adding Insult to Injury: The Role of Dignity in Conceptions of Sovereignty (with Julie Suk), forthcoming Stanford L. Rev. 2003, and Categorical Federalism: Gender, Jurisdiction and the Globe, 111 Yale L. J. 619 (2001).  Her new book, Adjudication and its Alternatives (with Owen M. Fiss), is to be published in the spring of 2003 by Foundation Press.  She also was a co-author of The Effects of Gender (1994), the first monograph to address the role gender played in the federal court system.   Professor Resnik has many times testified before congressional and judicial committees.  In 1987, she argued before the Supreme Court in a case involving women's admission to the Rotary Club.  She is a member of the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a recipient of the American Bar Association's Margaret Brent Award.    A graduate of Bryn Mawr College and NYU Law School, she has also taught law at the University of Southern California and visited at NYU, Chicago, and Harvard's law schools.

Reva Siegel

Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law, Yale University

Reva Siegel joined the Yale Law School faculty in 1994, where she writes and teaches about constitutional law, contracts, anti-discrimination law, legal history and inequality from diverse disciplinary perspectives. In her work, Professor Siegel often employs the methods of legal history to explore contemporary questions of civil rights law. Her journal articles analyze the modernization of gender and racial status law during the 19th and 20th centuries in areas ranging from abortion and domestic violence to voting rights, sexual harassment, affirmative action, and federalism. Professor Siegel is a graduate of both Yale College and Yale Law School. Before coming to Yale, she taught at the Boalt Hall School of Law at U.C. Berkeley.

Sarah van Walsum

Senior Researcher in Migration Law, Free University of Amsterdam

Faculty of Law, Department of Constitutional and Administrative Law

Sarah van Walsum grew up near Montréal, Québec, Canada. Her interest in migration and transnational family bonds is well-rooted in her own genealogy. She herself is the daughter of Dutch immigrants who came to Canada in the early 1950’s. Her mother is the daughter of an American woman who had met a Dutchman while studying in France. And his mother – Sarah’s great-grandmother – was a Malaysian woman from Singapore who had married a Dutch officer stationed in the former Dutch Indies.

In line with this family tradition, Sarah van Walsum herself has traveled widely, having lived in the United States, France and Ghana before finally settling in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 1979. There she has been actively involved with issues relating to third world development and immigration law, both as an academic and as a participant in activist groups. Her Ph.D. thesis, published in 2000, dealt with the implications of Dutch immigration policies for transnational family relationships. Presently she is researching the history of Dutch family migration policy from 1950 to 2000. She has published widely on the topic of family migration law, specifically on the admission of children and on the dependent status of women who enter the Netherlands as spouses. One of her articles, entitled Family Norms and Citizenship in The Netherlands, is soon to appear in the book The Social Construction of Diversity, Recasting the Master Narrative of Industrial Nations, eds. Christiane Harzig and Danielle Juteau, with Irina Schmitt, New York: Berghahn Books, 2003.

Besides her work as a researcher, Sarah is also a member of the editorial board of the Dutch feminist legal journal Nemesis, mother and partner of three Dutchmen and member of a closely-knit transatlantic clan.

Jay Winter

Professor of History, Yale University

Jay Winter is Professor History at Yale University.  Between 1979 and 2001, he was Reader in Modern History in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge.  He is the author of Sites of memory, sites of mourning: the place of the Great War in European cultural history (Cambridge University Press, 1995) and, with Michael Teitelbaum, A Question of numbers: High migration, low fertility and the politics of national identity (Hill & Wang, 1998).  He was the writer and co-producer of the Emmy-award winning television series “The Great War and the shaping of the twentieth century,” first screened on the BBC and the Public Broadcasting system in 1996, and subsequently broadcast in 24 countries.