Alejandro Portes

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Alejandro Portes (born October 13, 1944) is a

Cuban-American sociologist. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences,[1] the American Philosophical Society,[2] and of the Board of Trustees and the Scientific Council at the IMDEA Social Sciences Institute. He also served as the president of the American Sociological Association in 1999. His academic studies have focused on immigration to the United States and factors affecting the fates of immigrants and their children. He has also done work on shack settlements in Latin America. His work is highly cited in the sub-fields of economic sociology, cultural sociology and race and ethnicity.[3]

Career

Portes attended the

University of Wisconsin-Madison
.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Alejandro Portes". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
  2. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-08-06.
  3. ^ Alejandro Portes publications indexed by Google Scholar
  4. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-24. Retrieved 2014-07-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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  7. ^ "NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing". National Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 18 March 2011. Retrieved 27 February 2011.

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