Douglas Massey

Douglas S. Massey ( born 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 the segregation in certain neighborhoods of the black underclass in the United States.

Massey was the 92nd President of the American Sociological Association and has received several 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 Research at the University of Bielefeld.

Massey received his B. A. 1974 in sociology, psychology and Spanish at Western Washington University and in 1977 the MA Sociology Department at Princeton University, Princeton. In 1978 he received his doctorate at Princeton.

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

• 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 Joaquin 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 and Nancy A. Denton. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993 x, 292 p: ill; .. .. 25 cm. ISBN 0674018206