The Council on Foreign Relations is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank and publisher dedicated to helping its members better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries.

Jacqueline Hagan is a distinguished professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research interests include religion and migration. She is the author of Migration Miracle: Faith, Hope and Meaning on the Undocumented Journey.

Read a Nov. 30, 2003, Boston Globe article about the rising profile of Christian evangelical groups at liberal colleges in the Northeast.

James Russell is spokesman for Catholics for a Moral Immigration Policy and the author of Breach of Faith: American Churches and the Immigration Crisis, which decries “out-of-control immigration” and examines “why American churches do so much to further an agenda so obviously harmful to the well being of Middle Americans.” He is based in White Plains, […]

Read a Nov. 9, 2001, story describing the struggles of Muslim students to fit in at school while remaining devout.

Read a Feb. 8, 2002, Chronicle of Higher Education article about how religion is viewed on college campuses.

May 21, 2013, The New York Times article about a federal appellate panel overturning an Arizona law that made an abortion 18 weeks after fertilization illegal.

May 29, 2013, NewsOK op-ed written by Oklahoma state representative and practicing physician Dr. Doug Cox stating his opposition to laws that restrict a woman’s right to contraception and an abortion.

The Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan is a leading resource for information about demographic trends in the United States. The center has access to dozens of scholars and experts. It has a page providing links to experts in specific fields.