Douglas Massey
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Sociology
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. Massey is currently a professor of Sociology at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
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at Princeton University
Princeton University
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and is an adjunct professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
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. Massey specializes in the sociology of immigration, and has written on the effect of residential segregation
Residential Segregation
Residential segregation is the physical separation of cultural groups based on residence and housing, or a form of segregation that "sorts population groups into various neighborhood contexts and shapes the living environment at the neighborhood level."...
on the black underclass in the United States.
Academia
He received his B.A. in Sociology, Psychology, and Spanish, from Western Washington UniversityWestern Washington University
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in 1974, and in 1977 he received an M.A.
Massachusetts
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in Sociology from Princeton University
Princeton University
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. Massey continued at Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
and received his PhD in 1978. He was a Guggenheim fellow
Guggenheim Fellowship
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in 1990–1991. He is married to psychologist Susan Tufts Fiske.
Douglas S. Massey is the founder and co-director of the Mexican Migration Project and the Latin American Migration Project, with his long-time collaborator Jorge Durand.
He is Board Member of the Institut für interdisziplinäre Konflikt- und Gewaltforschung (Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence) at Bielefeld University
Bielefeld University
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and Editor of the International Journal of Conflict and Violence
International Journal of Conflict and Violence
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Massey was president of the Population Association of America in 1996. He served as the 92nd president of the American Sociological Association
American Sociological Association
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, 2000–2001, and has won several awards for his books. Since 2006 he has been president of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
American Academy of Political and Social Science
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Massey's research areas include:
- Demography
- Urban Sociology
- Race and Ethnicity
- International Migration
- Latin American Society, particularly Mexico
Book titles
- 2007: New Faces in New Places: The New Geography of American Immigration (editor)
- Russell Sage; 370 pp. ISBN 0871545861
- 2005: Return of the "L" Word: A Liberal Vision for the New Century
- Princeton; 232 pp. ISBN 0691123039
- 2005: Strangers in a Strange Land: Humans in an Urbanizing World
- W.W. Norton; 352 pp.
- 2004: Crossing the border: Research from the Mexican Migration Project (co-edited with Jorge Durand)
- Russell Sage; 345 pp. ISBN 0871542889
- 2001: The Source of the River: The Origins, Aspirations, and Values of Freshmen at America's Elite Colleges and Universities (with Camille Charles, Garvey Lundy, and Mary J. Fischer)
- Princeton; 304 pp. ISBN 0691113262
- 2001: Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: U.S. Immigration Policy in the Age of Globalization (with Jorge Durand and Nolan Malone)
- Russell Sage; 216 pp. ISBN 087154590X
- 2001: Problem of the Century: Racial Stratification in the United States at Century's End (co-edited with Elijah Anderson)
- Russell Sage; 470 pp. ISBN 0871540541
- 1998: Worlds in Motion: International Migration at the End of the Millennium (with Joaquín Arango, Graeme Hugo, Ali Kouaouci, Adela Pellegrino, and J. Edward Taylor)
- Oxford; 362 pp.
- 1993: American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass (with Nancy A. Denton)
- Harvard; 304 pp. ISBN 0674018206
- 1987: Return to Aztlan: The Social Process of International Migration from Western Mexico (with Rafael Alarcón, Jorge Durand, Humberto González)
- University of California; 354 pp.
External links
- Princeton University, Sociology Department
- Mexican Migration Project
- Latin American Migration Project
- Video (and audio) of discussion/interview with Douglas Massey by Will WilkinsonWill WilkinsonWill Wilkinson is a Canadian American libertarian writer. Until August 2010, he was a research fellow at the Cato Institute where he worked on a variety of issues including Social Security reform and, most notably, the policy implications of happiness research. He is currently working on a paper...
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