HAMILTON ‘ Douglas Massey, co-author of Worlds in Motion: Understanding International Migration at Century’s End, and one of the country’s leading voices in contemporary social science, will speak on ‘Reasonable Immigration Policies for a Globalizing Economy’ at 51·çÁ÷ on Wednesday, November 17 at 7:30 p.m. in the Persson Hall Auditorium.
The Dorothy Swaine Thomas professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, Massey also chairs the sociology department. He has published extensively on U.S.-Mexico migration, including the books Return to Aztlan: The Social Process of International Migration from Western Mexico and Miracles on the Border: Retablos of Mexican Migrants to the United States. He has testified at Congressional hearings on immigration numerous times and has served as an immigration adviser to the National Academy of Sciences, the Social Science Research Council, the U.S. Commission on Immigration and Cooperative Economic Development, and Russell Sage Foundation. In collaboration with an international team of colleagues, he wrote Worlds in Motion: Understanding International Migration at Century’s End, in 1998.
Massey previously taught University of Chicago, where he directed its Latin American Studies Center and Population Research Center. He also formerly directed the University of Pennsylvania’s Population Studies Center and chaired its Graduate Group in Demography. During 1979 and 1980 he undertook postdoctoral research at the University of California at Berkeley and Princeton University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1978. Massey is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Center for Ethics and World Societies. Introduced last fall, the center facilitates discussion of issues arising from the interactions of different nations, peoples and communities, with an emphasis on the ethical aspects of those issues. The center’s 1999-2000 theme is ‘Homeless in the World: Refugees, Immigrants and the State.’
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