Douglas Massey

An American Sociologist who received his B.A. in Sociology, Psychology, and Spanish, Western Washington University in 1974 and in 1977 he received an M.A. in Sociology Department, Princeton University, Princeton, Massey continued at Princeton for his Ph.D. in 1978. Massey has been hailed as one of the foremost sociologist in the area of immigration.

Massey is currently a professor of Sociology at Princeton University and an adjunct professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Research in:

    Demography
    Urban Sociology
    Race and Ethnicity
    International Migration
    Latin American Society, particularly Mexico

Publications: 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).

2001 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)

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.