Mexican Immigration: The Facts, the Reality, and the Consequences – What to do?
Thursday, April 10, 2008
7 p.m., Elaine Langone Center Forum Douglas S. Massey
Princeton UniversityDouglas Massey is Henry G. Bryan Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. He currently serves as Director of Graduate Studies in the Woodrow Wilson School. He is one of the nation’s leading authorities on Mexican immigration and is affiliated with the Office of Population Research at Princeton University. He earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University in 1978.
He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He is the current president of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He is a member of the Committee on National Statistics of the National Research Council and the Immigration Advisory Board of the Russell Sage Foundation and is coeditor of the Annual Review of Sociology. He research focuses on international migration, race and housing, discrimination, education, urban poverty, stratification, and Latin America, especially Mexico. He is the author, most recently, of Strangers in a Strange Land: Humans in an Urbanizing World (2005) and Editor of New Faces in New Places: The Changing Geography of American Immigration (forthcoming).
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