B. LINDSAY LOWELL is Director of Research, Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University, and an expert on the historical and contemporary aspects of international migration. Recently, as Director of Policy Research at the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, he helped create recommendations on citizenship issues and served as Assistant National Coordinator on the U.S. Mexico Binational Study on Migration. Before that, he analyzed labor market policies at the U.S. Department of Labor and contributed to administration reports to Congress. He holds a doctorate from