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Presenters at the Penn Media Seminar on Immigration held at the National Press Club, Washington, D.C.:

Employment issues involving undocumented workers

Dr. Peter Cappelli, professor of management at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Center for Human Resources at Penn's Wharton School, can speak on the economic context of immigration and what happens for employers and employees when immigration expands.

Media contact: Phyllis Stevenson at 215-898-8036 or phsteven@wharton.upenn.edu

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Racial attitudes, housing patterns, higher education among black immigrants

Dr. Camille Charles, associate professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and faculty associate director of Penn's Center for Africana Studies, can discuss immigrants in urban communities and their racial attitudes. She is also an expert on black immigrants and selective colleges.

Dr. Charles is the author of "Won't You Be My Neighbor? Race, Class and Residence in Los Angeles" and co-author of "Black Immigrants and Black Natives Attending Selective Colleges and Universities in the United States."

Media contact: Jacquie Posey at 215-898-6460 or jposey@upenn.edu

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Immigration politics and border issues

Dr. Margaret Dorsey, a visiting scholar of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, can discuss South Texas border issues, including attitudes of border-area residents towards immigration.

Media contact: Jordan Reese at 215-573-6604 or jreese@upenn.edu

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Immigrant children and the child-welfare system

Dr. Richard Gelles, a sociologist and the dean of the School of Social

Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania, is an expert on domestic violence and child abuse. He can discuss immigration's effect on the child-welfare system and how current policies leave children in a "no man's land."

Media contact: Jill DiSanto-Haines at 215-898-4820 or jdisanto@upenn.edu

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Health care and undocumented immigrants

Dr. Steve Larson, an emergency-medicine physician at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, can discuss health-care needs as immigrant communities change from single young men to entire families. He can also discuss how to accommodate patients with different languages and cultures.

Media contact: Marc Kaplan at marc.kaplan@uphs.upenn.edu or 215-662-

2560

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Hispanic advocacy organizations and immigration policy

Dr. Deirdre Martinez of Penn's Fels Institute of Government, a former

nonprofit-sector policy analyst and legislative director for U.S. Rep. Xavier Becerra of California, can discuss immigration-policy positions of the leading Hispanic advocacy groups and the roles of these groups in the immigration debate.

Media contact: Jacquie Posey at 215-898-6460 or jposey@upenn.edu

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Immigrant legal and language access rights

Sarah Paoletti, director of the Transnational Clinic at the University of

Pennsylvania Law School, has researched the language-access rights of immigrants in accessing services for which they are legally eligible. A former staff attorney at Friends of Farmworkers Inc., she can talk about the status of U.S. discrimination laws and due-process rights.

Media contact: Jeanne Leong at 215-573-8151 or jleong@upenn.edu

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Immigrant rights post 9/11

Dr. Rogers Smith, a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, studies citizenship, race, ethnicity and gender. He chairs the Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship and Constitutionalism, this year's theme of which is "Citizenship, Borders and Human Needs."

Dr. Smith is the author of "Alien Rights, Citizen Rights and the Politics of Restriction" in the book "Debating Immigration." He can discuss post-9/11 restrictions on entry, discriminatory policies toward immigrants and reductions in their legal rights.

Media contact: Jacquie Posey at 215-898-6460 or jposey@upenn.edu

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Changing communities and educating Latino youth

Dr. Stanton Wortham, associate dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania and a professor of education, researches identity development and social identification among immigrant youth. He can discuss the mixed social identity among immigrant youth, educating Latino immigrant children and their reception in rural and small-town areas.

Media contact: Jill DiSanto-Haines at 215-898-4820 or jdisanto@upenn.edu

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Additional expert comment on immigration-related issues from the University of Pennsylvania:

Immigration, race and urban inequality

Dr. Michael Katz, a professor of history at the University of

Pennsylvania, can discuss the role of labor markets, public policies and ideas about differences in the lives of immigrants. He is co-author of a Brookings Institution report on immigration to metropolitan Philadelphia and co-author of the book "One Nation Divisible: What America Was and What It Is Becoming."

Media contact: Jacquie Posey at 215-898-6460 or jposey@upenn.edu

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Border fence between Arizona and Mexico

Dr. Donald Kettl, a professor of political science at the University of

Pennsylvania and the director of Penn's Fels Institute of Government, can discuss efforts to secure the U.S.-Mexican border. He is the author of "System Under Stress: Homeland Security and American Politics."

Media contact: Jacquie Posey at 215-898-6460 or jposey@upenn.edu

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Teaching a foreign language

Dr. Teresa Pica, a professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, specializes in second-language acquisition.

Media contact: Jill DiSanto-Haines at 215-898-4820 or jdisanto@upenn.edu

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Teaching English to speakers of other languages

Dr. Betsy Rymes, an associate professor in the Graduate School of

Education at the University of Pennsylvania, specializes in teaching English to speakers of other languages.

Media contact: Jill DiSanto-Haines at 215-898-4820 or jdisanto@upenn.edu

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Hispanic immigrant health, education and citizenship issues

Dr. Mary Lou Siantz, an assistant dean in the University of Pennsylvania

School of Nursing, studies the health and education of Hispanic immigrant children. She can discuss Hispanic families and mental health issues, including anxiety, depression and isolation, and the effects on American-born children of the deportation of their parents.

Media contact: Jill DiSanto-Haines at 215-898-4820 or jdisanto@upenn.edu

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