Public Ideologies & the Future of Immigration Reform
Alejandro Portes
Monday, 11 Nov 2013 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
For more than thirty years sociologist Alejandro Portes has helped shape the study of immigration and urbanization. His work on the causes and consequences of immigration to the United States has focused on informal economies, transnational communities and the adaptation of immigrant children. Most recently he's looked at immigration and the American healthcare system. He is the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Sociology and director of the Center for Migration and Development at Princeton University. His books include City on the Edge - The Transformation of Miami and Immigrant America: A Portrait.The first 10 minutes of this audio recording is unavailable due to technical difficulties.
Alejandro Portes was born in Havana, Cuba, and came to the United States in 1960 as a political exile. He pursued his graduate education at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is also on the faculty at the University of Miami, where he holds a joint appointment in the Department of Sociology and the School of Law.
Cosponsored By:
- Latino Graduate Student Association
- Sociology
- Student Organization of Sociologists
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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