Douglas Massey

Massey received his Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, Psychology, and Spanish, from Western Washington University in 1974, and in 1977 he received a Master of Arts in Sociology from Princeton University. Massey continued at Princeton University and received his PhD in 1978. He was a Guggenheim fellow in 1990–1991.

Douglas S. Massey is the founder and co-director of the Latin American Migration Project,[2] and the Mexican Migration Project with his long-time collaborator Jorge G. Durand.[3] He is Board Member of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence (Institut für interdisziplinäre Konflikt und Gewaltforschung) at Bielefeld University, a past editor of the International Journal of Conflict and Violence and a co-editor of the Annual Review of Sociology.[1]

Massey was president of the Population Association of America in 1996. He served as the 92nd president of the American Sociological Association, 2000–2001,[4] From 2006 to 2015, he was the president of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.[5] In 2008, he received a special recognition from the World Cultural Council.[6]

Massey's research areas include: demography, urban sociology, race and ethnicity, international migration, and Latin American society, particularly Mexico. He has won several awards for his works.[7]

• 2007: Categorically Unequal: The American Stratification System
  • Russell Sage; 340 pp. ISBN 978-0-87154-584-8
• 2007: New Faces in New Places: The New Geography of American Immigration (editor)
  • Russell Sage; 370 pp. ISBN 978-0-87154-586-2
• 2005: Return of the "L" Word: A Liberal Vision for the New Century
  • Princeton; 232 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-12303-5
• 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. ISBN 978-0-87154-288-5
• 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. ISBN 978-0-691-11326-5
• 2001: Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: U.S. Immigration Policy in the Age of Globalization (with Jorge Durand and Nolan Malone)
  • Russell Sage; 216 pp. ISBN 978-0-87154-590-9
• 2001: Problem of the Century: Racial Stratification in the United States at Century's End (co-edited with Elijah Anderson)
  • Russell Sage; 470 pp. ISBN 978-0-87154-054-6
• 1998: Worlds in Motion: International Migration at the End of the Millennium (with Joaquín Arango, Graeme Hugo, 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. ISBN 978-0-674-01820-4
• 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.

• Massey, Douglas S. (2000). "What I Don't Know About My Field but Wish I Did". Annual Review of Sociology. Annual Reviews. 26 (1): 699–701. doi:10.1146/annurev.soc.26.1.699.
• Massey, Douglas S. (1981). "Dimensions of the New Immigration to the United States and the Prospects for Assimilation". Annual Review of Sociology. Annual Reviews. 7 (1): 57–85. doi:10.1146/annurev.so.07.080181.000421. PMID 12312457.

• Princeton University, Sociology Department
• Mexican Migration Project
• Latin American Migration Project
• Video (and audio) of discussion/interview with Douglas Massey by Will Wilkinson on Bloggingheads.tv