Steven J. Gold is Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University. His scholarly interests include international migration, ethnic economies, ethnic community development, qualitative field methods and visual sociology. Gold is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of nine books including The Israeli Diaspora (Routledge/University of Washington Press 2002) which won the Thomas and Znaniecki Award from the ASA’s International Migration Section for the best book on international migration in 2003. His book Ethnic Economies, co-authored with Ivan Light of UCLA, has received 1496 Google Scholar citations. The chair of 22 PhD dissertations and author of over 150 journal articles, book chapters, and book reviews, Gold received the Charles Horton Cooley Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Sociology from the Michigan Sociology Association in 2007 and was a Visiting Scholar for the Erasmus Mundus Joint European Master’s in International Migration and Social Cohesion program at the University of Amsterdam and University of Osnabruck during Fall 2014. He received the Distinguished Career Award from the American Sociological Association, International Migration Section in 2019.
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| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3246-0565 |
| Researcher ID | 1958 |
Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
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Migration infrastructures
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Socio-economic consequences
Migration governance
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Governance actors
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Immigrant policy and law
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Migration policy and law
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Migration research and theory
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Transversal themes
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Disciplines
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Either/Mixed
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Other
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Qualitative research
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Michigan State University
University, East Lansing, United States
Professor of Sociology
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Unravelling the Rag Trade: Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Seven World Cities. Edited by Jan Rath. New York: Berg Publishers, 2002. Pp. xvi+237. $68.00 (cloth); $23.50 (paper).
| Authors | Steven Gold |
| Year | 2003 |
| Journal Name | American Journal of Sociology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Migrants and City-Making: Dispossession, Displacement, and Urban Regeneration. By Ayşe Çağlar and Nina Glick Schiller. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2018. Pp. xii+296. $99.95 (cloth); $25.95 (paper).
| Authors | Steven Gold |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | American Journal of Sociology | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |