Controlling Immigration: A Comparative Perspective with James Hollifield (08/31/26)
Join us for a conversation around Controlling Immigration: A Comparative Perspective with James Hollifield, editor.
James F. Hollifield is the Ora Nixon Arnold Fellow in International Political Economy, Professor in the Department of Political Science, and Director of the Tower Center at SMU in Dallas, Texas. Hollifield has served as an Advisor to various governments in North and South America, Europe, East Asia and the Middle East and Africa, as well as the United Nations, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the OECD, the ILO, the IOM, the EU, and other international organizations. He currently chairs working groups at the World Bank and the IDB and serves on the International Advisory Board of the National Center for Competence in Research (NCCR for Migration and Mobility) of the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Hollifield’s classic work provides a systematic, comparative assessment of the efforts of major immigrant-receiving countries and the European Union to manage migration, paying particular attention to the dilemmas of immigration control and immigrant integration.
The event will be moderated by Thomas Berger, Professor of International Relations, and Noora Lori, Associate Professor of International Relations, both at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University.
Register here for Controlling Immigration: A Comparative Perspective
A workshop with James Hollifield • Moderated by Noora Lori and Thomas Berger • Monday, August 31, 2 to 4 PM • Pardee School of Global Studies, 154 Bay State Road, 2nd floor (Eilts Room)

