Jorge Durand

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Jorge Durand is an anthropologist and professor-researcher in the Department of Studies on Social Movements (DESMoS) at the University of Guadalajara , in Jalisco, and co-director, with Douglas S. Massey, of the Mexican Migration Project (since 1987) and the Latin American Migration Project (since 1996) sponsored by Princeton University and the University of Guadalajara. He is a member of the National System of Researchers (Level III), of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, and of the American Philosophical Society.

He was born in Lima, Peru, and is Mexican by naturalization. He obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Social Anthropology from the Universidad Iberoamericana and a Master's degree in Social Anthropology from El Colegio de Michoacán. Doctor (NR) in Geography and Territorial Planning from the University of Toulouise-Le Mirail, France. He has been a visiting professor and researcher at the CNRS, France, and at the universities of Chicago, Pennsylvania, California, UCLA, Warsaw, and Princeton.

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During the last fifteen years he has studied the migratory phenomenon between Mexico and the United States. His publications as author and co-author include the books Return to Aztlan (Berkeley, California University Press, 1987), Beyond the Line (Mexico, CONACULTA, 1994), Miracles on the Border (Tucson, Arizona University Press, 1995), Migrations mexicaines aux États-Unis (Paris, Éditions du CNRS, 1995), The migrant experience (Guadalajara, University of Guadalajara, 2000), Beyond Smoke and Mirrors (New York, Russell Sage Foundation, 2002), and Clandestinos: Migración México Estados United at the dawn of the XXI century (Editorial Miguel Angel Porrúa and Universidad de Zacatecas, 2003), a work that synthesizes the research of the last fifteen years and gives an account of the changes and new scenarios of Mexican migration to the United States of America.

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