Douglas S. Massey es Catedrático de Sociología en la Universidad de Princeton. Coautor de American Apartheid (1993) y de Climbing Mount Laurel: The Struggle for Affordable Housing and Social Mobility in an American Suburb (2013). Ha publicado numerosos libros sobre migraciones internacionales; entre ellos, Return to Aztlan (1987), Beyond Smoke and Mirrors (2002) y Brokered Boundaries: Constructing Immigrant Identity in Anti-Immigrant Times (2010). Es miembro de la National Academy of Sciences y la American Philosophical Society. Ha presidido la Population Association of America, la American Sociological Association, y la American Academy of Political and Social Science.