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Jennifer Holdaway is associate director of the Migration Program. Since joining the Council in 2003, she has been working primarily with working groups on gender and migration and education and migration. She also directs the Transitions to College project.
Building on the foundation of the Working Group on Education and Migration in International Perspective, Jennifer Holdaway has recently become a co-principal investigator in Children of Immigrants in Schools—an international collaborative research project that will examine the impact of cross-national differences in educational institutions, policies, and practices, on the integration of children of immigrants in the United States and Europe. The project is funded by the National Science Foundation.
In collaboration with Josh DeWind, Holdaway is currently developing a new area of work that will consider the relationship between various forms of migration and development, drawing on her regional expertise on China.
Holdaway has a B.A. in Chinese Studies from Oxford University and a Ph.D. in political science from the Graduate School of the City University of New York. Before coming to New York in 1989, she lived in Taiwan and China for five years, working for the European Union, and as a journalist and translator. While in graduate school, she was project manager for the Second Generation in Metropolitan New York—the first large scale study of the economic, social, and political incorporation of second generation immigrants in the region. She is currently working with Mary Waters, Philip Kasinitz and John Mollenkopf on a book reporting the findings of that study. She is also an associate member of MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood and is particularly interested in how ethnicity shapes both the way in which young adults view the transition to adulthood and the choices they make. In addition to international migration, her interests include Chinese politics and U.S.-China relations. She has taught in the political science departments at Brooklyn College and at Barnard College.
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