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DEMETRIOS G. PAPADEMETRIOU

  

 

Demetrios Papademetriou is the Co-Director (with Kathleen Newland) of the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), a new Washington-based think tank dedicated exclusively to the study of international migration.  MPI is the successor to the International Migration Policy Program of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

 

While at MPI, Dr. Papademetriou will concentrate on (1) evaluating the adequacy of U.S. policies and administrative structures and practices in meeting important U.S. policy objectives; (2) the migration policies and politics of most member-states of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD); (3) borders and migration issues in North America; and (4) immigrant settlement and integration issues domestically and internationally. 

 

Dr. Papademetriou is also the Co-Founder and Chair Emeritus of . Metropolis: An International Forum for Research and Policy on Migration and Cities..  From 1991-1996, Dr. Papademetriou served as Chair of the Migration Committee of the Paris-based OECD.  From 1988 to July 1992, Dr. Papademetriou was Director for Immigration Policy and Research at the U.S. Department of Labor and Chair of the Secretary of Labor. s Immigration Policy Task Force.

 

Dr. Papademetriou has taught International Migration, International Political Economy, Comparative Public Policy, and International Relations at the University of Maryland, Duke University, the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research (Political Science), and the American University (as a scholar-in-residence).  He has published over 150 works on the immigration policies of the United States and other advanced industrial societies, the impact of legal and illegal immigration on the U.S. labor market, the relationship between international migration and development, the management of international borders, the U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada border (and migration) relationships, and the need for conceptualizing immigrant integration policies.