Douglas Massey
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Douglas S. Massey (born 1952 in Olympia, Washington, U.S.A.) is an American sociologist. Massey is currently a professor of Sociology at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and is an adjunct professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Massey specializes in the sociology of immigration, and has written on the effect of residential segregation on the black underclass in the United States.
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He received his B.A. in Sociology, Psychology, and Spanish, from Western Washington University in 1974, and in 1977 he received an M.A. in Sociology from Princeton University. Massey continued at Princeton University and received his Ph.D. in 1978. He was a Guggenheim fellow 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 coolaborator professor Jorge Durand.
Massey was president of the Population Association of America in 1996. He served as the 92nd president of the American Sociological Association, 2000-2001,[1] and has won several awards for his books.[citation needed] Since 2006 he has been president of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.[2]
Massey's research areas include:
- Demography
- Urban Sociology
- Race and Ethnicity
- International Migration
- Latin American Society, particularly Mexico
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2007 New Faces in New Places: The New Geography of American Immigration. Edited by D.S. Massey. New York: Russell Sage.
2005 Return of the "L" Word: A Liberal Vision for the New Century./ Massey, D.S. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691123039
2005 Strangers in a Strange Land: Humans in an Urbanizing World./ Massey, D.S. New York, NY: Norton Publishers.
2005 Race, Class, and Markets: Social Policy in the 21st Century. In Conceptual Challenges in Understanding Poverty and Inequality, edited by D.B. Grusky, and R. Kanbur. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
2004 Crossing the border : research from the Mexican Migration Project / Jorge Durand and Douglas S. Massey, editors. New York : Russell Sage Foundation, c2004. ix, 345 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. 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). ISBN 0691113262
2001 Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: U.S. Immigration Policy in the Age of Globalization. With Jorge Durand and Nolan Malone. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
2001 Problem of the Century: Racial Stratification in the United States at Century's End. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, (co-edited with Elijah Anderson). viii, 470 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. ISBN 0871540541
1998 Worlds in Motion: International Migration at the End of the Millennium. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (with Joaquín Arango, Graeme Hugo, Ali Kouaouci, Adela Pellegrino, and J. Edward Taylor) 362 pp.
1993 American Apartheid: segregation and the making of the underclass / Douglas S. Massey, Nancy A. Denton. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1993. x, 292 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. ISBN 0674018206
1987 Return to Aztlan: The Social Process of International Migration from Western Mexico
