Patricia Fernández-Kelly is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Princeton University, USA, and a Research Associate at the Princeton University Office of Population Research. She has written extensively on international development and globalization, immigration, and gender and development. Her latest book focuses on the experience of African-American families in West Baltimore.

Alejandro Portes is the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, USA. He is an internationally recognized scholar who has made enduring contributions to the fields of Latin American Urbanization, International Immigration, Institutions and Development, the New Second Generation in the United States and Europe, and Economic Sociology.