NOW AVAILABLE:

Getting Immigration Right: What Every American Needs to Know (co-edited with Peter Siavelis) from Potomac Books, Washington DC. and Amazon.com.

Getting Immigration Right brings together contributions from many of the participants in the highly successful Wake Forest University 2007 “Voices of Our Time” conference, Immigration: Recasting the Debate. As both lawmakers and the Obama administration again turn their attention to the question of immigration reform, the essays in this volume provide essential background information and valuable insights into the policy options available. Written to shape the national discussion, it puts Wake Forest University at the very crossroads of national debate at a critical time in our history.

In the news:

WUNC "State of Things" interview on immigration, 11/24/09

WFDD interview on immigration topics, 10/6/09

USA Today 7/3/09

Welcome to the site.

Down the years I have done a lot of writing – some serious, some light, some scholarly, some more popular – covering a wide range of topics from the history of the British Labour Party to reflections on why Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic. Having made that journey myself, and settled now as the Worrell Professor of Anglo-American Studies at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, I must hold one of the very few academic positions which could legitimately straddle topics as ostensibly unconnected as those two are! But straddle them I have, and now seems an appropriate time to begin to bring the writings together.

We have tried to design a site through which it is easy to navigate. I hope you find some of what is here of value to you. At the very least, the various strands of scholarly writing that await you constitute a kind of running commentary on things political – British and American – back into the 1970s. The historian in you might enjoy a journey back in time. And if not, there is always the fiction!

Thank you for your interest.

David Coates

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