James F. Hollifield

What Political Science Professor James Hollifield says about the immigration issue:

“The crisis of unaccompanied alien children is a crisis of our own making and sending the Texas National Guard to the border will not help.  We desperately need immigration reform to allow more people to live and work legally in the United States and to allow families to come together.  The U.S. also must respect its legal obligations under the 1951 Refugee Convention to give individuals fleeing violence and persecution an asylum hearing.  Under the Convention asylum seekers cannot be summarily returned to the countries from which they have fled.”

About Political Science Professor James F. Hollifield

James F. Hollifield is the Ora Nixon Arnold Professor of International Political Economy and Director of the Tower Center at SMU.  He has worked for a variety of governmental and intergovernmental organizations and has published widely on international political and economic issues, including Immigrants, Markets, and States (Harvard UP, 1992), L’immigration et l’Etat Nation (L’Harmattan, 1997), Controlling Immigration (Stanford UP, 3rd Edition, 2014),  Migration Theory (Routledge, 3rd Edition, 2014), and International Political Economy:  History, Theory and Policy (Cambridge UP, forthcoming) along with numerous other books and scientific articles.  His current research looks at how states manage migration for strategic gains.