Douglas Massey

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Douglas Massey

Douglas Steven Massey (* 1952 in Olympia , Washington ) is an American sociologist . Massey is currently a professor at Princeton University and adjunct professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania .

His specialty is the sociology of migration ; he has also worked on segregation in certain black underclass neighborhoods in the United States.

Massey was the 92nd president of the American Sociological Association and has received various awards for his books. Among other things, he is a member of the advisory board of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence at Bielefeld University .

Massey received his BA in Sociology, Psychology and Spanish from Western Washington University in 1974 and an MA from the Sociology Department of Princeton University, Princeton in 1977. In 1978 he received his PhD from Princeton.

His main research interests are in the following fields: demography ; Urban sociology ; Race and ethnicity ; International migration ; Latin American societies, especially Mexico.

In 1995 Massey was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 1998 to the National Academy of Sciences and in 2004 to the American Philosophical Society and in 2006 a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

He is married to social psychologist Susan Fiske .

Books

  • 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 Smoke and Mirrors: US 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

Web links

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  1. ^ Massey page of the American Sociological Association
  2. Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter M. (PDF; 1.1 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved December 16, 2018 .