I’m Senior Researcher at the Immigration Policy Center (IPC) of the American Immigration Council in Washington, DC.  I’ve written or co-written about 35 reports and fact sheets for the IPC and contribute regularly to IPC’s Immigration Impact blog.  I have also written articles for Society, the Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy, the Stanford Law and Policy Review, and Immigration Law Today; as well as opinion pieces for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Sacramento Bee, Wall Street Journal, Miami Herald, Politico, and The Hill.  Prior to joining the IPC, I 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).  I received my Ph.D. in Anthropology from the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School in 1997.  My 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.  I received my B.A. in Sociology and Anthropology from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1987.  {Download my complete C.V. in PDF}

You can contact me at walterewing@walterewing.com.