Douglas Steven Massey (born October 5, 1952 in
Olympia
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, Washington, United States) is an American
sociologist. Massey is currently a professor of Sociology at the
Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
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at
Princeton University
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and is an adjunct professor of Sociology at the
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 in the United States is the physical separation of two or more groups into different neighborhoods—a form of segregation that "sorts population groups into various neighborhood contexts and shapes the living environment a ...
on the black underclass in the United States.
He has been president of the
Population Association of America
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, the
American Sociological Association
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and the
American Academy of Political and Social Science
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. He is a
co-editor of the ''
Annual Review of Sociology
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''.
Academia
Massey received his
Bachelor of Arts
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in Sociology, Psychology, and Spanish, from
Western Washington University
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in 1974, and in 1977 he received a
Master of Arts
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in Sociology from
Princeton University
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. Massey continued at
Princeton University
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and received his PhD in 1978. He was a
Guggenheim fellow
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in 1990–1991.
Douglas S. Massey is the founder and co-director of the Latin American Migration Project,
and the Mexican Migration Project with his long-time collaborator
Jorge G. Durand Jorge Guillermo Durand Arp-Nisen (born 1949 in Lima, Peru) is a research professor of anthropology at the University of Guadalajara and the Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE). He is co-director with Douglas Massey, Douglas S. Massey on ...
.
He is Board Member of the
(''Institut für interdisziplinäre Konflikt und Gewaltforschung'') at
Bielefeld University
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, a past editor of the ''
International Journal of Conflict and Violence
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'' and a
co-editor of the ''
Annual Review of Sociology
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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
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, 2000–2001,
From 2006 to 2015, he was the president of the
American Academy of Political and Social Science
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. In 2008, he received a special recognition from the
World Cultural Council
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.
Massey's research areas include:
demography
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Demographic analysis examines and measures the dimensions and Population dynamics, dynamics of populations; it can cover whole societies or groups ...
,
urban sociology
Urban sociology is the sociological study of life and human interaction in metropolitan areas. It is a normative discipline of sociology seeking to study the structures, environmental processes, changes and problems of an urban area and by doing ...
,
race and ethnicity
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,
international migration
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, and
Latin America
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* french: Amérique Latine, link=no
* ht, Amerik Latin, link=no
* pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived f ...
n society, particularly
Mexico
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.
He has won several awards for his works.
Book titles
* 2007: ''Categorically Unequal: The American Stratification System''
** Russell Sage; 340 pp.
* 2007: ''New Faces in New Places: The New Geography of American Immigration'' (editor)
** Russell Sage; 370 pp.
* 2005: ''Return of the "L" Word: A Liberal Vision for the New Century''
** Princeton; 232 pp.
* 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.
* 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.
* 2001: ''Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: U.S. Immigration Policy in the Age of Globalization'' (with Jorge Durand and Nolan Malone)
** Russell Sage; 216 pp.
* 2001: ''Problem of the Century: Racial Stratification in the United States at Century's End'' (co-edited with Elijah Anderson)
** Russell Sage; 470 pp.
* 1998: ''Worlds in Motion: International Migration at the End of the Millennium'' (with Joaquín Arango,
Graeme Hugo
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, 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.
* 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.
Journal articles
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Notes
External links
Princeton University, Sociology DepartmentMexican Migration ProjectLatin American Migration ProjectVideo (and audio) of discussion/interview with Douglas Masseyby
Will Wilkinson
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on
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American sociologists
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1952 births
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Presidents of the American Sociological Association
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