Massey Wins Award from Society for Applied Anthropology for Three Decades of Work on Mexico-U.S. Migration

May 01 2017
By Sarah M. Binder
Source Woodrow Wilson School

The board of directors for the Society for Applied Anthropology has awarded Douglas S. Massey and Jorge Durand Arp-Nisen the 2018 Bronislaw Malinowski Award in recognition of their 30 years of work on the Mexican Migration Project.

The Mexican Migration Project was created in 1982 by an interdisciplinary team of researchers to further understanding of the complex process of Mexican migration to the United States. It is co-directed by Massey and Durand and has offices at Princeton University’s Office of Population Research and at the Departamento de Investigacion sobre Movimientos Sociales, University of Guadalajara.

Massey, the Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, is one of the country’s leading experts on immigration and border control. He studies international migration, race and housing, discrimination, education, urban poverty and Latin America, especially Mexico. Durand is a professor of social anthropology at the University of Guadalajara. Born in Peru and Mexican by naturalization, he studies the migratory phenomenon between Mexico and the U.S.

The pair will be honored at the 78th annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology to be held in Philadelphia in April 2018.

The Bronislaw Malinowski Award recognizes the application of the social sciences to contemporary issues. It is presented to an “outstanding social scientist in recognition of efforts to understand and serve the needs of the world's societies and who has actively pursued the goal of solving human problems using the concepts and tools of social science during one’s entire career.”

The society was founded in 1941 to promote the investigation of the principles of human behavior and the application of these principles to contemporary issues and problems.