SSRC Staff

Josh DeWind

Program Director,
DPDF and Migration Program

Bio

Josh DeWind is Director of the Migration Program and the Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) Programs.  Since receiving his PhD in anthropology from Columbia University in 1977, his research and writing has focused internationally on issues of migration.  Under his leadership since 1994, the Council’s activities related to migration have evolved from an initial focus on fostering the interdisciplinary development of immigration studies within the United States -- through research fellowships, thematic working groups, and a national conference -- to promoting migration studies internationally through collaborative working groups and research about relations between internal and international migration to development and about other international aspects of migration, including religion and education.  The DPDF Program assists graduate students based at American universities in preparing dissertation and funding research proposals in a wide range of interdisciplinary fields of study.  He is co-editor with Charles Hirschman and Philip Kasinitz of the Migration Program’s "flagship" publication, The Handbook of International Migration: The American Experience (Russell Sage Foundation, 1999) and, most recently, he co-edited with Jennifer Holdaway, Migration and Development Within and Across Borders: Research and Policy Perspectives on Internal and International Migration (International Organization on Migration, 2008).

Programs and Projects

Migration Program
(Program Director)
Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) Program
(Program Director)
Migration and Development
(Program Director)
Diaspora-Government Relations
(Program Director)
East Africa: Citizenship and Forced Migration in the Great Lakes Region
(Program Director)
Forced Migration
(Program Director)
Immigration and Religion in America
(Program Director)
Korean Development and Migration
(Program Director)
Migration and Development Within and Across Borders: Research and Policy Perspectives on Internal and International Migration
Migration and Religion
(Program Director)
Migration and Security
(Program Director)
The Religious Lives of Migrant Minorities
(Program Director)
West Africa: Forced Migration and Human Rights
(Program Director)

Publications

Book(s)
Migration and Development Within and Across Borders: Research and Policy Perspectives on Internal and International Migration, eds. Josh DeWind and Jennifer Holdaway (2008).
Immigration and Religion in America: Comparative and Historical Perspectives, eds. Richard Alba, Albert Raboteau and Josh DeWind (2008).
Rethinking Migration: New Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives, eds. Alejandro Portes and Josh DeWind (2007).

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