Uprootedness as the Other Side of Integration: Reframing Contemporary Migration Studies

Jorge Durand is a Research Professor at the University of Guadalajara. He is co-director of 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, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2018, he received the Bronislaw Malinowski Award from the Society for Applied Anthropology. Throughout his career, he has developed themes linked to social movements, both peasants and urban workers, with a focus on the international migration processes both in Mexico and in Central America. He has approached the subject from an anthropological and historical perspective but has also contributed to the creation of an extensive database on Mexican and Latin American migration in the Mexico Migration Project.