Donald Kerwin

Donald Kerwin is ED Emeritus of the Center for Migration Studies of New York, Editor in Chief of the Journal on Migration and Human Security, and a senior Ignation Migration fellow at Jesuit Refugee Service/USA. He is also a Senior Fellow at Emory University's Center for the Study of Law and Religion. From Sept. 2011 to December 2023, he served as ED of CMS, a New York-based educational institute and think tank devoted to the study of international migration, the promotion of understanding between immigrants and receiving communities, and public policies that safeguard the dignity and rights of migrants, refugees and newcomers. Prior to CMS, Mr. Kerwin worked for 16 years at the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC), serving as that agency’s ED for 15 years. He also worked as Interim ED at CLINIC; Vice-President for Programs and a non-resident senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute; and as a Senior Researcher at the University of Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs. He has served on numerous boards and advisory groups. He regularly speaks and writes on forced migration, refugee protection, U.S. immigration policy, Catholic social teaching, national security, and other issues.