Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda, an associate professor in UCLA's César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, is a regularly cited expert on immigration and immigrants in the United States. He has written and spoken widely on a variety of immigration-related subjects, including trade, investment and migration between the U.S., Mexico and Latin America; the labor market for Latinos in the U.S.; and international political economy.

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Letisia Marquez | 310-206-3986 | marquez@support.ucla.edu

 

Hiroshi Motomura, professor of law, is an expert on immigration and citizenship law. He has written extensively on the subject, served as co-counsel on cases before the U.S. Supreme Court and testified before Congress.

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Lauri Gavel | 310-206-2611 | gavel@law.ucla.edu

Sara Wolosky | 310-206-2221 | wolosky@law.ucla.edu

 

Eugene Volokh, Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law and a nationally recognized constitutional scholar, has written extensively on racial profiling.

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Lauri Gavel | 310-206-2611 | gavel@law.ucla.edu

Sara Wolosky | 310-206-2221 | wolosky@law.ucla.edu

 

Kelly Lytle Hernández, an associate professor of history and associate director of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, is an authority on the history and politics of immigration and emigration, particularly between the United States and Mexico. She is the author of "Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol."

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Letisia Marquez | 310-206-3986 | lmarquez@support.ucla.edu

 

David Hernández, an assistant professor in UCLA's César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, has studied the history of the detention of immigrants in the United States and how increases in such detentions are linked to the growth of racial inequality and xenophobia. He also researches international migration and Chicano and Latino politics and social movements.

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Letisia Marquez | 310-206-3986 | lmarquez@support.ucla.edu

  

Jorge Bravo, assistant professor of political science and an adviser at the UCLA Center for Mexican Studies, is an expert on Mexican politics, Mexican society and Mexico–U.S. relations.

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Elizabeth Kivowitz Boatright-Simon | 310-206-1458 | ekivowitz@support.ucla.edu

Meg Sullivan | 310-825-1046 | msullivan@support.ucla.edu

 

Abel Valenzuela, an associate professor of urban planning and Chicano studies and director of UCLA's Center for the Study of Urban Poverty, is a regularly cited expert on immigration issues and day laborers. His he has written and spoken widely on the impact of immigration in urban neighborhoods and the experiences of minority groups in the labor market.

Media ontact:

Letisia Marquez | 310-206-3986 | lmarquez@support.ucla.edu

Meg Sullivan | 310-825-1046 | msullivan@support.ucla.edu