The Immigrant Voting Project
The Immigrant Voting Project is a resource network dedicated to promoting discussion about the practice of allowing immigrants to vote in local elections --often referred to as "resident voting" --as an innovative way to promote civic participation and responsibility among incipient Americans and better educate and prepare them for eventual citizenship; to give voice to one of the last disenfranchised segments of the population; and to increase government accountability in communities with large immigrant populations. The project analyzes past and current noncitizen resident voting initiatives; creates a network among immigrant advocates, community activists, scholars, and policy makers; and disseminates information through a website, publications, and events. The immigrantvoting.org website is a central hub of these efforts.
Based at the New School University's World Policy Institute, the Immigrant Voting Project is directed by WPI Senior Fellow Michele Wucker and CUNY/Borough of Manhattan Community College Assistant Professor Ron Hayduk. The Immigrant Voting Project works in collaboration with the New York Coalition to Expand Voting Rights, New York University Law Students for Human Rights, and many groups across the United States whose focus is restoring voting rights to the last disenfranchised members of the population.
Contact information:
Ron Hayduk Phone: (212) 220 1246
Michele Wucker Phone: (212) 229 5808 x4270
Co-Directors
c/o The World Policy Institute
66 Fifth Avenue, 9th floor
New York, NY 10011
www.immigrantvoting.org