Patrick R. Ireland is Professor of Political Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, USA. He has written extensively on urban-level migrant integration in Europe, North America, and Africa; female migrant domestic workers; and migrant health. His publications include
The Policy Challenge of Ethnic Diversity (1994) and
Becoming Europe: Immigration, Integration, and the Welfare State (2004), as well as many peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters.