​Roy Germano wrote, directed, and edited The Other Side of Immigration while conducting a survey of 768 families in Mexico with funding from the National Science Foundation.

He is the author of Outsourcing Welfare: How the Money Immigrants Send Home Contributes to Stability in Developing Countries (Oxford University Press). His research has appeared in a number of scholarly journals, including Migration Studies, Latino Studies, Research & Politics, Perspectives on Politics, the NYU Law Review, Electoral Studies, and others.

Germano is currently a senior research scholar and adjunct professor at New York University. He studied political science and international relations at the University of Texas at Austin (Ph.D.), the University of Chicago (M.A.), and Indiana University (B.A.).

His other documentary films include A Mexican Sound and Immigrant America, which was broadcast by Vice News.

You can contact him directly at roy.germano@nyu.edu