Marie Price is a Professor of Geography and International Affairs of the George Washington University. She is also the President of the American Geographical Society. A Latin American and migration specialist, her studies have explored human migration’s impact on development and social change, especially at the urban scale. In terms of policy, she is interested on strategies that promote migrant inclusion as well as the use of geographic sciences and technologies to address inequality and promote development. She is co-author of two leading textbooks in world geography: Diversity Amid Globalization: World Regions, Environment and Development, 7th edition (2018, Pearson) and Globalization and Diversity: Geography of a Changing World, 6th edition (2020, Pearson). With Elizabeth Chacko she co-edited the book (Un)Settled Sojourners in Cities: Challenges of “Temporariness” Among Migrants and Asylum Seekers (2023, Routledge). Price has authored or co-authored over 80 articles and books chapters, her recent publications appeared in the Geographical Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Cities, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Journal of Latin American Geography, Professional Geographer and the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Price is currently funded by the NSF doing research on the US Mexican Border in the Lower Rio Grande Valley in a project titled “Geographies of Migration and (In)Security”. She was a co-author on a report issued by the Organization of American States in 2023 on the role of local authorities in the reception and integration of immigrants and refugees in cities across the Americas.

Expertise

Migration processes
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
Migration governance
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
Disciplines
Methods
Geographies

Roles

  • George Washington University

    University, Washington, DC, United States
    Professor

  • American Geographical Society

    Non-governmental Organisation, New York City, United States
    President

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Suggested Research

Creating social capital on soccer fields: immigrant opportunities and gendered barriers in adult soccer leagues

Authors Edward Painter, Marie Price
Year 2019
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
3 Journal Article

(Un)settled sojourners in cities: the scalar and temporal dimensions of migrant precarity

Authors Elizabeth Chacko, Marie Price
Year 2020
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
4 Journal Article

The ordinary lives and uneven precarity of the DACAmented: visualising migrant precarity in metropolitan Washington

Authors Marie Price, Giancarla Rojas
Year 2020
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
5 Journal Article

The Mixed Embeddedness of Ethnic Entrepreneurs in a New Immigrant Gateway

Authors Marie Price, Elizabeth Chacko
Year 2009
Journal Name Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies
6 Journal Article

The World Settles in: Washington, DC, as an Immigrant Gateway

Authors Marie Price, Ivan Cheung, Samantha Friedman, ...
Year 2005
Journal Name Urban Geography
Citations (WoS) 21
7 Journal Article
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