Marc R. Rosenblum is a senior policy analyst at Migration Policy Institute, where he works on the labor markets initiative, U.S. immigration policy, and U.S.-Mexican migration issues.
Dr. Rosenblum is the author of The Transnational Politics of U.S. Immigration Policy (University of California, San Diego Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, 2004) and has also published over 20 academic journal articles, book chapters, and policy briefs on immigration, immigration policy, and U.S.-Latin American relations. His book Defining Migration: America’s Great Debate and the History of U.S. Immigration Policy analyzes U.S. immigration policy since the Civil War, with a focus on the post-IRCA and post-9/11 periods (forthcoming, 2009); and he is the coeditor (with Daniel Tichenor) of The Oxford Handbook of International Migration (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
Dr. Rosenblum earned his B.A. from Columbia University and his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego, and is currently an associate professor of political science and the Robert Dupuy Professor of Pan-American Studies at the University of New Orleans. He was a Council on Foreign Relations Fellow detailed to the office of U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy during the 2006 Senate immigration debate, and was involved in crafting the Senate’s immigration legislation in 2006 and 2007. He also served as a member of President-Elect Obama’s Immigration Policy Transition Team in 2009.
