What is he best known for?
The fields of study he is best known for:
- Law
- Social science
- Capitalism
His primary areas of investigation include Immigration, Ethnic group, Social science, Acculturation and Social capital.
His Immigration research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Economic growth, Political economy, Demographic economics, Transnationalism and Gender studies.
The Ethnic group study combines topics in areas such as Nationality, Socioeconomic status, Academic achievement and Vietnamese.
As part of the same scientific family, Alejandro Portes usually focuses on Social science, concentrating on Entrepreneurship and intersecting with Cultural assimilation, Restructuring and Economic mobility.
His studies deal with areas such as Social integration, Neuroscience of multilingualism, Refugee and Developmental psychology as well as Acculturation.
His Social capital study combines topics in areas such as Individual capital, Positive economics, Field and Development economics.
His most cited work include:
- Social Capital: Its Origins and Applications in Modern Sociology (8611 citations)
- The New Second Generation: Segmented Assimilation and its Variants (3479 citations)
- Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation (3043 citations)
What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?
Alejandro Portes mainly investigates Immigration, Ethnic group, Social science, Economic growth and Latin Americans.
His primary area of study in Immigration is in the field of Acculturation.
His research integrates issues of Developmental psychology and Neuroscience of multilingualism in his study of Acculturation.
His work carried out in the field of Ethnic group brings together such families of science as Context, Social psychology, Entrepreneurship and Refugee.
The Social science study which covers Positive economics that intersects with Sociological theory.
As a part of the same scientific study, Alejandro Portes usually deals with the Development economics, concentrating on Informal sector and frequently concerns with Developing country.
He most often published in these fields:
- Immigration (47.69%)
- Ethnic group (16.18%)
- Social science (13.01%)
What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2015-2021)?
- Immigration (47.69%)
- Social science (13.01%)
- Miami (6.65%)
In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:
His scientific interests lie mostly in Immigration, Social science, Miami, Demographic economics and Humanities.
Alejandro Portes has researched Immigration in several fields, including Social psychology, Neuroscience of multilingualism, Transnationalism, Criminology and Ethnic group.
The study incorporates disciplines such as Genealogy and Phenomenon in addition to Ethnic group.
Alejandro Portes works in the field of Social science, focusing on Sociological theory in particular.
His Demographic economics research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Compassion, Unauthorized immigration and Emigration.
His Humanities study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Sociological research, Sociological imagination and Heritage language.
Between 2015 and 2021, his most popular works were:
- Spanish Legacies: The Coming of Age of the Second Generation (18 citations)
- They are not all the same: immigrant enterprises, transnationalism, and development* (12 citations)
- Bifurcated immigration and the end of compassion (9 citations)
In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
- Law
- Social science
- Capitalism
Alejandro Portes mostly deals with Immigration, Miami, Transnationalism, Social psychology and Politics.
Alejandro Portes merges Immigration with Host in his research.
His Transnationalism research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Epistemology, Social science, Field and Development economics.
He interconnects Developed country, Entrepreneurship, Circular cumulative causation and Conceptualization in the investigation of issues within Development economics.
Alejandro Portes has included themes like Ethnic group, Neuroscience of multilingualism, Educational attainment and First language in his Social psychology study.
His Politics research includes themes of Empirical research and Scholarship.
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