Alejandro Portes is a Cuban-American sociologist, born October 13, 1944, known for his research on immigration to the United States and on economic sociology. He served as president of the American Sociological Association in 1999 and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. With Kenneth L. Wilson he introduced the concept of the ethnic enclave, and he was among the first sociologists to study the informal economy in both advanced and developing economies. His theory of segmented assimilation, developed with Min Zhou and drawing on the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study he directed with Ruben G. Rumbaut, describes the divergent paths taken by the second generation of immigrant families. He also helped establish the study of immigrant transnationalism as a research field and contributed influential work on social capital and on the urbanization of Latin American and American cities, including Miami's transformation into a global city.
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Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own account Nationality / CultureSourced to the subject's own account Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own accountIntroduced, with Kenneth L. Wilson, the concept of the ethnic enclave, and was among the first sociologists to study the informal economy in advanced as well as developing economies. 1 Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own accountCity on the Edge: The Transformation of Miami (1993) 1 Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own accountLegacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation (2001) 1 Connections
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Portes was born in Havana, Cuba, on October 13, 1944.
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Alejandro Portes (born October 13, 1944) is a Cuban-American sociologist known for his research on immigration to the United States and on economic sociology.
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With Kenneth L. Wilson he introduced the concept of the ethnic enclave, and he was among the first sociologists to study the informal economy in advanced as well as developing economies.
Career section
continuing at Princeton, where it culminated in Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation (2001).
Career section, City on the Edge paragraph
In City on the Edge (1993) he analyzed how immigration, and the Cuban enclave in particular, reshaped Miami into a multicultural metropolis.
Associated With: Stanford University, Article text
During his years at Duke he spent a year in Brazil as an adviser to the Ford Foundation, studying housing policy in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, and a year as a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.
Associated With: Johns Hopkins University, Article text
In 1980 he moved to Johns Hopkins University, where he held the John Dewey Chair in Arts and Sciences and chaired the sociology department.
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