Researchers

Michael Flynn is the founder and lead researcher of the Global Detention Project based at the Graduate Institute’s Program for the Study of Global Migration (http://www.globaldetentionproject.org/). Flynn is also director of IPS Right Web (http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/), an online research and publishing project based at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC, that assesses the work of individuals and organizations pushing militarist U.S. foreign policies. A former associate editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (http://www.thebulletin.org/), Flynn’s work has been supported by the International Reporting Project (formerly the Pew International Journalism Program), the Fund for Investigative Journalism, and the Geneva International Academic Network. His articles on immigration and politics have been published by the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Inter Press Service, Asia Times, Mexico's Reforma, among other media outlets. He holds a BA in philosophy from DePaul University and an MA in international relations from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.

Selected Papers and Publications on Immigration

• Michael Flynn and Cecilia Cannon, “Coding Migration-related Detention,” Global Detention Project working paper, Forthcoming May 2009.
• Isabel Ricupero and Michael Flynn, “Migration and Detention: An International Law Primer,” Global Detention Project working paper, Forthcoming April 2009.
• Michael Flynn, "Europe: On Its Borders New Problems," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November/December 2006.
• Michael Flynn, Where's the U.S. Border? Portraits of an Elastic Frontier, paper delivered at the Latin American Studies Association conference, San Jose, Puerto Rico, March 2006.
• Michael Flynn, "Who's Trying to Cross the Border? Everyone," Washington Post, 11 December 2005.
• Michael Flynn, "What's the Deal at Manta?" Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January/February 2005.
• Michael Flynn, "The Elastic Frontier," in In Defense of the Alien, Center for Migration Studies, New York, 2005.
• Michael Flynn, "U.S.-Ecuador: Stretching Borders to Block Migrants," Inter Press Service / Dawn, 2 August 2003.
• Michael Flynn, "U.S. Immigration Policies: The Double Standard," Chicago Tribune, 1 December 2002.
• Michael Flynn, editor, Seeking Refuge, special issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on global migration and displacement, November/December 2002; author, "Searching for Safe Haven," introduction to the special issue; author, "Guatemala: Is This Peace?" a featured article of the special issue.
• Michael Flynn, "Donde Esta La Frontera?" Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July/August 2002.