Alejandro Portes
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1944 –
Who is Alejandro Portes?
Alejandro Portes is a prominent Cuban-American sociologist. He is currently chair of the department of sociology at Princeton University and a member of the National Academy of Science, 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.
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- Born
- 1944
Cuba - Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- University of Havana
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
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on July 23, 2013
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