Research > Research Themes > Growth and Structure of Populations > Migration

D. Massey remains Adjunct Prof. of Sociology at Penn and a Research Associate of the PSC, and works with some students, but is not in this application because most of his work is based at Princeton. We want to add a migration expert; we offered a position this past year to E. Parrado and will continue to search (L8). Nonetheless, there is a lot of migration expertise at the PSC. Schurr is mapping out the prehistory of human migration, in the Americas, in Siberia and Central Asia, and in Melanesia. Katz, in Soc Sci Hist shows how the disappearance of manufacturing jobs available to early 20th-C immigrants from S. and E. Europe is harming prospects for assimilation by Mexican migrants to the US. Madden has traced US migration flows to and between suburbs; see A1.2 on segregation implications of flows of better-off blacks into poor-white neighborhoods. She was instrumental in recruiting Saiz to the PSC; he has several working papers on migration, including one on why foreign-born immigrants cause native-flight and slow housing price appreciation (it has more to do with “tastes” for racial and SES similarity, as per Charles’s research, than with “foreignness” per se). Work in progress by Stevenson shows that job search via the internet increases migration. Harknett is studying the effects of migration (and incarceration) on local sex-ratios. Soldo, with R. Wong and A. Palloni, in Int Mig Rev uses the MHAS (NIA R01) data to describe positive aspects for Mexican income distribution due to selective migration to and from the US; Polsky uses these data to show how time spent in the US lessens the chances that immigrants from Mexico would be insured upon their return to Mexico; and see Elo’s results on the (non)-impact of selective return migration (Mortality, above).