Biography:

Julie Weise is an academic expert on immigration, Latino immigration, race and identity. Her book, "Corazon de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South," looks at the history of Mexican immigration in Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia and North Carolina. Julie can also talk about immigration policy. She served as a speechwriter and researcher in Mexican President Vicente Fox’s administration.

Recent Media:

• Plight of migrant laborers killed, held hostage in Middle East exposes Israel’s reliance on overseas workforce (The Conversation, March 4, 2024)
• Trump’s latest immigration restriction exposes a key contradiction in policy (The Washington Post, June 23, 2020)
• Oregon immigration experts say Donald Trump’s executive order is little more than racial scapegoating (The Oregonian, April 23, 2020)
• Historian’s grant will transform a podcast into a YouTube series (OregonNews, March 2, 2020)
• Quack Chats explores the U.S. role in Mexican immigration (OregonNews, Oct. 18, 2019)
• What will future historians say about President Trump's first 100 days? Here are 11 guesses (TIME, April 27, 2017)
• How the Olympics helped lure Latinos to Atlanta (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, July 15, 2016)
• Julie Weise: Blame California for Trump’s views on immigration (Ventura County Star, May 5, 2016)
• Corazón de Dixie: The history of Mexican immigration to the south (North Carolina Public Radio, Dec. 10, 2015)
• McCrory’s real legacy on Latino immigration (The News & Observer, Nov. 23, 2015)
• A tale of two immigration politics in Maryland and Virginia (Aljazeera America, Nov. 3, 2014)
• Residents uneasy about immigrant shift into suburbs (National Public Radio, Oct. 20, 2014)