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 Princeton University and an adjunct professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.

He specializes in the sociology of immigration, and has written on the effect of residential segregation on the black underclass in the United States.

He served as the 92nd President of the American Sociological Association, and has won several awards for his books.^[1]

He 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.

Research in:

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

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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: 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