Staff

David P. Lindstrom is the Paul R. Dupee, Jr. University Professor of Social Science in the Department of Sociology and a member of the Population Studies and Training Center at Brown University. His research examines the determinants and consequences of migration in economically developing societies, the transition into adulthood, and the changing dynamics of reproductive health and behavior. His research has been supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the RAND Corporation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and the Compton Foundation. He has published over 70 research articles, book chapters and edited volumes, and authored 47 research reports and policy briefs on topics ranging from immigrant integration, immigrant health, migration and family formation, adolescent sexual health and behavior, and food insecurity.

Silvia Giorguli Saucedo is professor-researcher at the Center for Demographic, Urban and Environmental Studies (CEDUA). She was the Director of CEDUA from 2009–2015, President of the Mexican Society of Demography from 2011–2012, and Founding Director of the magazine Coyuntura Demográfica. Since 2015 she has been President of El Colegio de México. Her research focuses on issues of international migration from Mexico to the United States and its impact on education and the structure of Mexican families on both sides of the border. Dr. Giorguli studied sociology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), received an MA in demography from El Colegio, and in 2004 received her doctorate in sociology from Brown University. She was a Visiting Fellow in 2007–2008 at Stanford University’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. In 2018, she received the Horace Mann Medal from Brown University.

Jéssica Natalie Nájera Aguirre is Professor-Researcher at the Center for Demographic, Urban and Environmental Studies (CEDUA), El Colegio de México. Her degrees are in economics, demography and population studies. She is a member of the National System of Researchers and a collaborator with national and international organizations that provide shelter and support to migrants. Her research examines cross-border mobility, international migration, family and labor markets in the Central America-Mexico-United States region using quantitative and qualitative methodologies. She directed the Survey on Migration on the Southern Border of Mexico (EMIF Sur) from 2004 to 2009 and is also a member of the Latin American Migration Project (LAMP). Her most recent book is “Living on both sides of Suchiate. Cross-border work and family life of Guatemalans in Chiapas”, edited by El Colegio de México, 2021.

Doug Massey is Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, with a joint appointment in The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society, he is the current president of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and is a member of the Council of the National Academy of Sciences and co-editor of the Annual Review of Sociology. Massey’s research focuses on international migration, race and housing, discrimination, education, urban poverty, stratification, and Latin America, especially Mexico. He is the author, most recently, of Brokered Boundaries: Constructing Immigrant Identity in Anti-Immigrant Times, coauthored with Magaly Sanchez and Published by the Russell Sage Foundation.

Jorge Guillermo Durand Arp-Nisen (born 1949 in Lima, Peru) is a research professor of anthropology at the University of Guadalajara and the Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE). He is co-director with Douglas S. Massey on the Mexican Migration Project (since 1987) and the Latin American Migration Project (since 1996), sponsored by the universities of Princeton and Guadalajara. He is a member of the American Philosophical Society, National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In Mexico, he is a member of the National System of Researchers (Level III) of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. Further, he has been granted the Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences award in the Latin American & Caribbean Competition, as well as the Bronislaw Malinowski Award by the Society for Applied Anthropology.

Filiz Garip is Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton University. Her work lies at the intersection of migration, economic sociology, and inequality. Within this general area, she studies the mechanisms that enable or constrain mobility and lead to greater or lesser degrees of social and economic inequality. She serves on the National Advisory Committee of the U.S. Census Bureau. Her work has appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Journal of Sociology, Population and Development Review, Demography and Annual Reviews of Sociology. She is the author of On the Move: Changing Mechanisms of Mexico-U.S. Migration (Princeton University Press, 2016). For more information, please visit her personal website: www.filizgarip.com.

Antonio Yúnez-Naude received his PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London. From 1976 to 2024 he was professor at the Center for Economic Studies (CEE), El Colegio de México (COLMEX), and he has been Director of CEE and a member of the Governing Committee, COLMEX. Yunez-Naude is Emeritus National Researcher Mexico National Research System. His research focuses on sustainable development, with special attention to the rural sector of low and medium-income countries, migration, and climate change and natural resources in Mexico. His latest publication is a textbook written with Jorge Mora-Rivera: Economic Development, Agriculture and Climate Change. World Scientific Lecture Notes in Economics and Policy: Volume 15. World Scientific Publishers.

Georgetown University

Karen Pren is a Survey Methodologist at the Houston Population Research Center, Rice University. She has a Ph.D. in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania. Before joining Rice, she worked for more than 15 years as the project manager for the Mexican Migration Project and the Latin American Migration Project at Princeton University. Her scholarly work explores migration's demographic, economic, and policy dimensions, with a particular focus on Latin America.

Fernando Riosmena is Professor of Sociology and Demography and Director of the Institute for Health Disparities Research at the University of Texas – San Antonio. His research interests span two main areas. First, Riosmena’s work aims at improving understanding of the theories, drivers, empirical measurement, and analytical strategies to analyze migration, with a particular focus on the social, economic, environmental, and policy factors likely influencing international movement between Mesoamerica and the United States using a cross-context comparative perspective. Second, Riosmena’s research examines the health, aging, and wellbeing of immigrants, comparing migrant trajectories in these domains with those of nonmigrant counterfactual experiences in sending areas and destinations to assess the likely impacts of migration, the immigrant adaptation process, and the processes driving race-ethnic disparities.

María Adela Angoa Pérez is a PhD candidate in Population Studies at El Colegio de México. She is currently an associate researcher at El Colegio de México, and since August 2012 she has been associate editor of the magazine Coyuntura Demográfica published by the Mexican Society of Demography. Her primary areas of research include the international migration of Mexicans and Central Americans to and from the United States and Mexico, as well as the adaptation and integration processes of diasporas in Mexico and the United States.

Jenny Izbeth Flores Ortega obtained her doctorate in Public Policy from the Center for Economic Research and Teaching (CIDE) in 2016, and her master's degree in Environmental Administration from El Colegio de la Frontera Norte in 2008. Since 2016 she has collaborated on research and teaching projects for the National Center for the Evaluation of Higher Education (CENEVAL), the National Council for the Evaluation of social policy (CONEVAL), the National Institute of Ecology and Climate Change (INECC), the National Women's Institute (INMUJERES) and the National Institute of Public Health (INSP). She is currently executive coordinator of the Gender Equality Model and coordinator of the Psychological Support Program at El Colegio de México, in addition, she is a professor at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Santa Fe campus.