About
Walter Ewing is a Senior Researcher at the Immigration Policy Center (IPC) of the American Immigration Law Foundation in Washington, DC. In addition to authoring or co-authoring more than 20 reports and essays for the IPC since 2003, he has published articles in the Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy, Stanford Law and Policy Review, and Immigration Law Today, as well as opinion pieces in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Miami Herald. Prior to joining the IPC, he was an Immigration Policy Analyst at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and a Program Director at Immigration and Refugee Services of America (now the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants).
Walter received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School in 1997. His dissertation was based on field research conducted as a Fulbright U.S. Student Fellow in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1994 on the grassroots impact of the International Monetary Fund's structural-adjustment programs on poverty, public services, crime, political protest, electoral politics, and human rights. He received his B.A. in Sociology and Anthropology from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1987.