Ludger Pries holds a Chair for Sociology at Ruhr Universität Bochum and is speaker of the section of 'Migration and ethnic minorities' in the German Sociological Association. He taught and did research in Brazil, Mexico, Spain and the USA. He was visiting fellow at Universidade Federale de Minas Geráis/Belo Horizonte, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana and El Colegio de Mexico/Mexiko-City, University of Pennsylvania/Philadelphia, Cornell University/Ithaca and Columbia University/New York.

Ludger Pries studied Sociology and Social Science at the Universities of Bochum, Erlangen-Nürnberg and Puebla/Mexiko. His research interests concentrate on Sociology of Organisations, Work and Labour Regulation, and migration in international comparison, especially transnationalisation, transnational migration and processes of social incorporation.

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