Alejandro Portes

E-Mail: aportes@princeton.edu
Other Web Pages: http://sociology.princeton.edu/people/faculty/faculty.php#portes

Professor of Sociology. Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1970. Interests: immigration, economic sociology, comparative development, Third World urbanization.

Recent Activities

Alejandro Portes continues as Director of the Center
for Migration and Development. In 2005, he also
served as Chair of the Sociology Department. He was
appointed to the Editorial Board of the Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences, of which he is a
member. He delivered keynote addresses at the
Symposium on Cuba, University of Wisconsin-
Madison; the Hispanic Summit of the Plains, University
of Nebraska-Lincoln; Summer Institute on International
Migration, University of California, Irvine; and the International Conference on State-Diaspora Relations,
sponsored by the Mexican government, Mexico City.
He also delivered a cycle of lectures on international
migration at the Institute de Sciences Politiques
(Sciences Po) in Paris.

Recent Publications

CMD 05-08 Alejandro Portes
Institutions and Development: A
Conceptual Re-Analysis

CMD 05-07 Alejandro Portes, Cristina Escobar,
Alexandria Walton Radford
Immigrant Transnational Organizations
and Development: A Comparative Study

CMD 05-06 Bryan R. Roberts, Alejandro Portes
Coping with the Free Market City:
Collective Action in Six Latin American
Cities at the End of the Twentieth Century

CMD 05-01 Alejandro Portes, Bryan R. Roberts
La Ciudad Bajo el Libre Mercado:
La Urbanizacion en America Latina durante
los Anos del Experimento Neoliberal

Portes, A. Sociology in the Hemisphere: Past Convergences
and New Mid-Range Agenda. Pp. 27-52, In Rethinking
Development in Latin America, edited by B. Roberts, and C.
Woods. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University
Press. 2005.

Portes, A. Archibald Orben Haller: An Intellectual Portrait.
In The Shape of Social Inequality: Stratification and Ethnicity
in Comparative Perspective, edited by D.B. Bills.
Amsterdam: Elsevier Press. 2005.

Portes, A., Fernández-Kelly, P., and Haller, W.J. Segmented
Assimilation on the Ground: The New Second Generation
in Early Adulthood. Ethnic and Racial Studies,
28(November):1000-1040. 2005.

Portes, A., and Haller, W.J. The Informal Economy and Its
Paradoxes. Pp. 403-425, In Handbook of Economic
Sociology, Second Edition, edited by N.J. Smelser, and R.
Swedberg. New York: Russell Sage Foundation and
Princeton University Press. 2005.

Portes, A., and Roberts, B.R. The Free Market City: Latin
American Urbanization in the Years of the Neoliberal
Experiment. Studies in Comparative and International
Development, 40(Spring):43-82. 2005.

Portes, A., Roberts, B.R., and Grimson, A. Ciudades
Latinoamericanas: Un Analysis Comparativo en el Umbral del
Nuevo Siglo. Buenos Aires: Prometeo Libros. 2005.

Portes, A., and Rumbaut, R. The Second Generation in
Early Adulthood. Ethnic and Racial Studies,
28(November):Special Issue. 2005.

Portes, A. The New Latin Nation: Immigration and the
Hispanic Population of the United States. Los Angeles, CA:
The Tomas Rivera Policy Institute. Forthcoming.

Portes, A. Institutions and Development: A Conceptual Re-
Analysis. Population and Development Review. Forthcoming.

Portes, A. Immigration and the International System:
Transnationalism, Entrepreneurship, and the Second
Generation. Lisbon: Fim do Seculo Editores. Forthcoming.

Portes, A., and Centeno, M.A. The Informal Economy in
the Shadow of the State. In Out of the Shadows: Political
Action and the Informal Economy in Latin America, edited
by P. Fernandez-Kelly, and J. Shefner. University Park, PA:
Pennsylvania State University Press. Forthcoming.

Portes, A., Escobar, C., and Radford, A.W. Immigrant
Transnational Organizations and Development: A Comparative
Study. International Migration Review. Forthcoming.

Portes, A., and Roberts, B.R. Coping with the Free Market
City: Collective Action in Six Latin American Cities at the
End of the Twentieth Century. Latin American Research
Review. Forthcoming.

Portes, A., and Rumbaut, R. Immigrant America: A Portrait.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Forthcoming.

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