Special to UM News

Alejandro Portes, professor of sociology and law at the University of Miami and professor emeritus at Princeton University, was inducted into the National Academy of Education in Washington D.C. this past weekend.

One of sixteen elected to the highly prestigious organization on the basis of outstanding scholarship, Portes is the author of 250 articles and chapters on national development, international migration, Latin American and Caribbean urbanization, and economic sociology. He has published nearly 40 books and special issues. His books include City on the Edge – the Transformation of Miami (California 1993), co-authored with Alex Stepick and winner of the Robert Park Award for best book in urban sociology and the Anthony Leeds Award for best book in urban anthropology in 1995; and Immigrant America: A Portrait, 3rd edition, (California 2006), designated as a Centennial Publication by the University of California Press in 1996.

His current research is on the adaptation process of the immigrant second generation in comparative perspective, the role of institutions on national development, and immigration and the American health system.