Xiaochu Hu is a third year PhD student at the School of Public Policy and Graduate Research Assistant at the Center for Regional Analysis, George Mason University. Her research fields are immigration policy and regional economic development. Ms. Hu’s recent publications include Scientists, Managers, and Tourists: The Changing Shape of European Migration to the United States (Migration Policy Institute, July 2011, co-author,); and China’s “New generation” Rural-urban Migrants: Migration Motivation and Pattern (Migration Information Source, Jan 2012).