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MAGALY SANCHEZ R Curriculum Vitae 2011 Address : Senior Researcher and Visiting Scholar (since 2004) Office of Population Research. Princeton University 226 Wallace Hall Princeton, NJ 08544 magalys@princeton.edu www.princeton.edu/~magalys Citizenship : Citizen and Resident of the United States Born in Venezuela Education : PHD in Sociology. School of High Studies in Social Sciences. University of Paris X. France (Doctorat en Sociology, summa cum laude. Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Université de Paris X. France) 1980 M.A. Sociology of Développent. Institute d’Etudes du développent Economique et Sociale. Paris. France.1974 B.A., Sociology. Universidad Central de Venezuela. Caracas. Venezuela. 1971 Languages : Fluent in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese (Brazil) Employment: (2004-present) Senior Researcher and Visiting Scholar at the Office of Population Research. Princeton University (1998-2003) Visiting Scholar and Researcher, Department of Sociology and the Population Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania (1997-1999) Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Temple University (Summer 1993) Visiting Professor. Instituto de Sociologia de Nuevas Tecnologias. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Madrid Spain (1986-1987) Visiting Scholar. Regional Science Department. University of Pennsylvania . (1981) Visiting Professor at the North African University’s. Alger, Marroc and Tunes . E.D.N.A. Programme de Formation pour l’environnement (1976/2002) Professor. Institut of Urbanisme. University Central de Venezuela . Caracas. Venezuela. Major Fields: Urban Sociology, Latin American Studies, Youths - Urban Violence, International Migration – Immigrant Latino Identity –High Skill Educated International Migration. Honors and Awards: Order Jose Maria Vargas Give by the Central University of Venezuela in recognition of the Academic activities and Research trajectory. July 12, 2002 Research Program Promotion. National Council for Science and Technology. PPI. CONICIT.Caracas,Venezuela. Levels 1 and 2 (1990-2000) Russell Sage Foundation .CO- PI with Douglas Massey. Project Transnational Identities and Behavior: An Ethnographic Comparison of First and Second Generation Latino Immigrants. 2002. 50.000US$ FNRS National Fond for Scientific Research, and the DDC-SDC Direction for Cooperation and Development. IREC IU/UCV, Co- PI and Doctoral Thesis adviser for “Intenational Research partnership for mitigating syndromes of global change”.2001-2005 .60.000 US$ National Council of Science and Technology, CONICIT. Caracas PI Project The Urban Social Movements and the Policy State Intervention in the urban metropolitan Area of Caracas, 100.000 US $ . 1983-1987 .Caracas Venezuela Grant from the National Council of Science and Technology of Venezuela CONICIT – and The Foundation for the Community Fundacomun .Caracas. PI of the Project “Reproduction of the Work Force in the Urban Structure: the working class conditions in the segregated areas of Caracas”. 200.000 US $ 1979-1981 Caracas Venezuela Professional Services: Participant and Coordinator “Latino American Migration to United States and Spain: Agenda for Comparative Research” /Research Seminar. OPR. November 18-19, 2010 Participant and Coordinator “ Princeton Brainstorming Meeting for the 2009 Human development report On Migration” United Nations Development Program. Wallace Hall. Princeton University. January 13, 2009 Co-Director for the Conference “Globalization and the Rise of the Left in LatinAmerica,”Witherspoon Institute and Widrow Wilson School of Public and International Policy at Princeton University.Dec 4-8, 2007 Participant in the panel on “Pandilla’s and Transnational Gangs in Central America” IN Oppenheimer Presents, Television Program. July. 2007 Coordinator for the Seminar Venezuela Today. Co-Sponsor by the Centre of Migration and Development, Latin-American Studies Program, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Affairs, and the Latin-American migration Project at Princeton University. April 13, 2006. Consultant. Taller International Sur- Norte de Investigación – AcciónFormación de Proyectos Sociales Urbanos. (International Work shop South North, Research-Action-Formation of Social Projects). ENDA AL- ENDA . Senegal- ENDA .France. Santa Fe de Bogotá. Colombia. Oct 1994- Feb1995 - Teaching: Structural Adjustments and Social Responses in Urban Latin America Seminar Sociology Department .Urban Studies and Population Studies Center. University of Pennsylvania (for MA - PhD) Fall 2002/ Spring 2003 American Ethnicity . Sociology Department. Temple University.(U.G). 1999 2 Society Comparative Development. Sociology Department. Temple University.(U.G) 1997-1998 Seminars for Master’s degree in Urban Design, Urban Planning and Institute of Urbanism, Facultad Architecture, Central University of Venezuela 1976-1994 Books: 2010 Brokered Boundaries: Creating Immigrant identity in Anti Immigrants Times. (Co- Authored with Douglas Massey). Russell Sage Foundation June 2010 2006 Chronicle of a Myth Foretold: The Washington Consensus in Latin America. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.Volume 606, No. 1 July 1 2006 (Co-edited with and introduction by Douglas S.Massey and Jere Behrman) 1998 Malandros. Bandes Gangs et Enfants de la rue : culture d’urgence a Caracas. (Malandros. Gangs and street kids: urgency culture a Caracas.) (CoAuthored With Yves Pedrazzini) Prologue by Manuel Castells O. Desclee de Brower. Editions Charles Leopold Mayer. Paris. pp 271 1992 Malandros, bandas y niños de la calle. Cultura de Urgencia en la Metrópoli Latinoamericana. ( Malandros, gangs and street kids : Urgency culture in Latin American metropolis ) (Co-Authored With Yves Pedrazzini ) Vadell Hermanos Editorial . Valencia, Caracas. Pp 197 (First edition 1992- Second edition 1998 ) Book Chapters 2011 ” Venezuelan Immigrants” IN Multicultural America . Ronald Bayor, Editor. An Encyclopedia of the Newest Americans Vol 4, pages 2191-2213 Greenwood . from the collections of ABC-CLIO. July 2011 2009 “Restrictive Immigration Policies and Latino Immigrant Identity in the United States” (Co- Authored with Douglas Massey) in Human development Research Paper (HDRP) series on the theme of human mobility and he upcoming HDR 2009 Report 2007 “Free Trade and Latin America: Echoes and Repercussions for International Migration”. IN Labor in the Americas. Issues facing Economic Integration and Free Trade . Editors. Paolo Paiva, Ray Marshall and Robert.H Wilson. Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. University of Texas Austin. 2007 “Percepción de la Identidad Latina y Americana por parte de los Inmigrantes Latinos en Estados Unidos”. (Co author with Douglas Massey) IN Marina Ariza y Alejandro Portes (Coordinadores). El País Transnacional. Migración Mexicana y Cambio Social a través de la Frontera. Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales. UNAM. México. D.F. 3 2006 “Insecurity and Violence as a New Power Relation in Latin America”. IN Chronicle of a Myth Foretold: The Washington Consensus in Latin America. (Co -Editor with Douglas S. Massey and Jere Behrman) 2005 “El ciclo perverso de la violencia e inseguridad como relacion de poder en America Latina” ( The pervers cycle of violence and insecurity ,as a power relation in Latín América ) Capitulo XXIV IN Violencia Criminalidad y Terrorismo. Venezuela Positiva. Varios Autores. (IN Violence, Criminality and Terrorism. Venezuela Positiva) Caracas. December 2004-JACS. “ Central America and the Caribbean. Key Challenges of Sustainable Development and Research priorities: Social Practices as Driving Forces of Change “ (with various authors) IN Research for Mitigating Syndromes of Global Change. Edited by Hans Hurni, Urs Wiesmann and Roland Schertenleib VOL 1, pages 193-328 NCCR. North-South, Berne. Switzerland. 2001 “Le Barrio, la rue, les gangs, une critique de la Sociologie Urbaine “ ( The Barrio, the street , the gangs, a critic to the Urban Sociology) (With Yves Pedrazzini ) . IN Enjeux de la Sociologie Urbaine.Sous la Direction de Michel Bassand, Vincent Kaufmann, et Dominique Joye. Science, Technique, Société Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes. CH- Lausanne. 1997 “ Vie violente et liens sociaux d’urgence“ (Violent life and social links of urgency). (With Yves Pedrazzini. IN Les liens social et l’Inachevement de la Modernite. Experiences d’Amerique et d’Europe. ( The social links and the accomplishment of modernity. Experience from America and Europe) Edited by J.Pavageu, Gilbert and Y. Pedrazzini. Ed. L’Harmattan /ARCI. Paris. 1995 “ Bandes de Barrios de Caracas et Gangs des Ghettos Américains ” (Gangs in the Barrios of Caracas and Gangs in American ghettos)( With Yves Pedrazzini IN Sujet-Acteur et Societes en Transformations. ( IN Suject- Actor and the Societies in transformation) Edited by Luce Kellerman and German Solinis.Collection Etudes.Presses Universitaires de Perpignan. France 1995 “Riesgos de perturbación en las relaciones sociales existentes en el Barrio como consecuencia de los procesos de Rehabilitación ” (Perturbations risks in the existing social relations in the barrios as a result of Rehabilitation process.(With Yves Pedrazzini ) IN La cuestión de los Barrios IN (The question of the Barrios). Edited by Teolinda Bolivar and Josefina Baldo. Monte Avila Editores Latinoamericana. Fundacion Polar. UCV. Caracas 1993 ”Jeunes en revolte et Changement Social” (Youths in revolts and social change)(With others) L’Harmattan. Logiques Sociales. Paris. France 1992 “Le malheur de naitre pauvre en milieu urbain” (The Adversity of Being Born Poor at the Urban Environment).( With Yves Pedrazzini) IN La Societé en éclats. Recits recueillis par Thomas Schnee et Dominique Godfard. Fondation pour le Progrés de l’Homme et Association de Recherche Cooperative International. Syros Editions. Paris 4 1991. “Hacia una estrategia cultural de los Movimientos Sociales ?”(Toward a Cultural Strategy of the Social Movements). IN Ambient , Estado y Sociedad. Edited by Maria Pilar Garcia . CENDES. USB. Caracas Journals Articles 2011 “Violencia –Inseguridad y la Emigración de Venezolanos ” Magaly Sanchez R.IN Revista Debates. IESA Volume XVI . Numero 3. July Sep 2011 Caracas . Venezuela 2011 Book review “Violent Democracies in Latin America” by Magaly Sanchez R. IN American Journal of Sociology. Forthcoming May 2011 2011 “Connected: Colombian and Venezuelan Immigrant Organization in the United States”. Co- Authored with Maria Aysa-Lastra .Forthcoming 2011 “Latino Youths: From exclusion to International Migration”. IN Urbana. No.39 .Instituto de Urbanismo. Universidad Central de Venezuela. In Print. 2008 “Relation d’une Expérience Sociale: Science ou Auto- fiction ? ( Co- Authored With Yves Pedrazzini) IN Nouvelles Practiques Sociales, 20 (2) 2007 “Latino and American Identities as perceived by Immigrants” (Co- Authored With Douglas Massey) IN Qualitative Sociology, 30:81-108. 2006 “Latino and American Identities as perceived by Immigrants ”.( CoAuthored With Douglas Massey ) IN Qualitative Research.Publisher Springer Netherlands.November.http://www.springerlink.com/content/h4713q67plk382g8 2000 “Pobreza Urbana en el Nuevo Milenio”. Editorial. IN Revista URBANA No 26 . Institute of Urbanism. Faculty of Architecture. Central University of Venezuela . Caracas Venezuela. Enero-Julio. 2000 “Drug dealing, and Street Violence among Inner City Latino Youth “. IN Revista URBANA No.26 Institute of Urbanism. Faculty of Architecture,Central University of Venezuela .Caracas. Venezuela. Enero- Julio. 1996 “De los movimientos sociales urbanos a la cultura de urgencia en la metrópoli”.(From the Urban social movements to the Culture of Urgency in the Metropolis) Editorial. IN FERMENTUM. Revista de Sociología y Antropología. Año 6. No.16 y 17.Mayo-Diciembre. Mérida. Venezuela. 1996 “Vida Violenta y Vínculos sociales de Urgencia en la Metrópoli ”.( Violent life and urgent social link in the Metropolis).(With Yves Pedrazzini ) IN FERMENTUM. Revista de Sociología y Antropología .Año 6. No.16 y 17. Mayo-Diciembre, Mérida. Venezuela. 1994 “Tiempos de Metropolis ” ( Time’s of Metrópolis )IN URBANA No 13.Institute of Urbanism. Faculty of Architecture. Central University of Venezuela. Caracas, January 5 1993 “Vers une Culture d’Urgence dans les Métropoles d’Europe? ” (Toward a Culture of Urgency, in the European Metropolis).( Witt Yves Pedrazzini) IN Lettre du Pir-Villes. Controverses. Paris. Septembre 1990 “Nuevas Legitimidades Sociales y Violencia Urbana en Caracas ” ( New Social Legitimacy and Urban Violence in Caracas ) (With Yves Pedrazzini) IN Nueva Sociedad.No.109. Caracas. Septembre- Octobre. 1982 “El rol de la renta de la tierra en la economía venezolana de los años 70 ”. (The rol of the Land Rent in the Venezuelan Economy in the 70’s)IN Revista URBANA No 4. Institute of Urbanisme. Faculty of Architecture. Central University of Venezuela . Caracas. Venezuela. 1980 “Reproducción de la fuerza de trabajo en la estructura Urbana de Caracas ”. (Work force Reproduction in the Urban Structure of Caracas: The urban Crisis in the Segregated Areas). IN Revista Urbana No 1. Institute of Urbanism. Faculty of Architecture. Central University of Venezuela . Caracas. Newspapers : 1999 “Xiomara Guánchez: Lider, luchadora y madre. Homenaje al coraje de los Pobladores”.( UIT Yves Pedrazzini) IN Ciudades de la Gente. Latinoamericana por la Rehabilitacion Integral de los Barrios. Caracas. Julio 1996 “Los Pobladores de la calle en las Metrópolis de hoy”. IN Ciudades de la Gente. Latinoamericana por la Rehabilitación Integral de los Barrios. Caracas . June 1995 “Taller Sur – Norte. Investigación Acción Formación sobre Proyectos. Sociales Urbanos “ (Workshop South-North. Research Action Formation in Social Urban Projects) . Bogotá. February 1995 “El desalojo en Tiempos de Metropolis ”. IN Ciudades de la Gente. Latinoamericana por la Rehabilitación Integral de los Barrios. No 1.Central University of Venezuela and Fondation pour le Progress de l ‘Homme. Caracas. Mars 1989 “Reves individuelles et aventure collective. Relations de pouvoir et changement social ”. ( With others )(Individuals dreams and collective adventure. Power relations and social change) IN Bulletin ARCI. Paris France. 1989 “La Cultura de Urgencia. Por un Neorrealismo en Sociologia Urbana ”. ( With Yves Pedrazzini) (The culture of Urgency. For a Neo-realism in Urban Sociology . IN Dimension. Facultad de Arquitectura. UCV. Caracas. Venezuela Research Projects : Since 2010 International Migration of Talent. Venezuelan and other South American population. Princeton University. Since 2009 The Venezuelan Immigrant case. LAMP, PI with Douglas Massey. Princeton University 6 2003-2009 Transnational Identities and Behavior: An Ethnographic Comparison of First and Second Generation Latino Immigrants. ( PI.With Douglas Massey ) Population Research Office at Princeton University and the Population Studies Center at the UPENN/ Russell Sage Foundation Grant 2001- 2005 -International Research partnership for mitigating syndromes of global change. ( With various authors ) IP5 Social Practices and Empowerment in Urban societies In JACS Central and Caribbean America. FNRS National Fond for Scientific Research, and the DDC-SDC Direction for Cooperation and Development. IREC IU/UCV. http://www.nccr-north-south.unibe.ch/ 1999 - Field Work with the Dominican Community in New York. LAMP Latin American Migration Project. Sociology Department. University of Pennsylvania 1997-1999- Low Income Non Custodial Fathers. Latino Community (With PI Professor Kathryn Edin) Field Work with the Latino Community in Kensington. Sociology Department. University of Pennsylvania.1998 1998-2000 Drug dealing and street violence among Latino children and youth in inner cities . Kensignton.Philadelphia. Initial support from the Foundation pour le Progress de l’Homme. FPH- Paris. 1998-2000 - International Comparative research. Youths and Urban Violence. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Caracas, Venezuela: Dakar, Senegal; Marseille, France, Philadelphia, USA. Research coordination with Latino Youths at Kensington Philadelphia . Fondation pour le Progrès de l’Homme 1991-1992 -Project Sud –Sul. Culture d’Urgence versus haute technology. (With Yves Pedrazzini)Join project Lisboa, Portugal, Perpignan, France, Barcelona Spain, and Caracas, Venezuela. Association de Recherche Coopérative International. ARCI. 1991-1994 -Liens sociaux d’urgence (With Yves Pedrazzini)( (Urgency Social Links ) Group Thematic Number 3. Resseux et Interaccion Social. International Joint Project.Asociation Cooperative International. ARCI. 1987-1991-Los Jovenes Aventureros de la Cultura Urbana. Dinamica Urbana , Cultura popular, y el rol de los jovenes en la Cultura Urbana. (With Yves Pedrazzini )The Young Adventurers of the Urban Culture., Urban Dynamic Popular, Culture and the Role of the Young in the Barrios of Caracas) . Institute of Urbanism .Central University of Venezuela and The National Fond Swiss for the Research . Caracas 1983-1987-Los Movimientos Sociales Urbanos y la Politica de Intervencion del Estado en el Area Metropolitana de Caracas. (The Urban Social Movements and the Policy State Intervention in the urban metropolitan Area of Caracas) Institute of Urbanism. Central University of Venezuela. National Council of Science and Technology CONICIT Caracas 7 1980 - Structure Urbaine, Force de Travail et Ségrégation social: les conditions de vie dans le barrios de Caracas. (Urban Structure, Work Force and Social Segregation:Survey on Life Conditions in the Caracas popular Barrios) Doctoral Thesis under the Direction of Professor Manuel Castells O. Ecole des Hautes Etudes. EPHE. Paris Mai 1980 -81- Reproducción de la Fuerza de Trabajo en la Estructura Urbana: la condición de la clase trabajadora en las zonas segregadas de Caracas. ( Reproduction of the Work Force in the Urban Structure: the working class conditions in the segregated areas of Caracas).Institute of Urbanism. Central University of Venezuela . National Council of Science and Technology CONICIT -Fundacomun .Caracas Congress and Lectures 2011 “Identidad Latina en el contexto Anti-Inmigrante de Estados Unidos “ IN Workshop Mestizaje , Identidad y Cohesión Social .El gobierno de los Movimientos de Población. Universidad de navarra. Pamplona .Spain 25-26 may 2011 “Immigrant Identity in Anti-Immigrant Times” Magaly Sanchez R IN Speaker IN Conference New Realities of Mexican Immigration to the United States. Princeton University. April 22 2011 “Violence and radicalization in a Democratic Authoritarian regime : The Venezuelan Case”. Magaly Sanchez R . Key Speaker Pannel De- Radicalization in Repressive Settings Conference Process of radicalization and Deradicalization. Center for Interdisciplinary Research . Bielefeld. Germany April 6-8 2011 Authors meet the critics. “Brokered Boundaries. Creating immigrant Identity in Anti-Immigrants Times “ .Douglas Massey and Magaly Sanchez R. IN Eastern Sociological Congress. Philadelphia.Feb25 2011 “Creating immigrant Identity in Ant immigrants times” Magaly Sanchez R IN Immigration from an Interdisciplinary Perspective. Colloquium Florida International University Center for Latin-American and Caribbean Studies.Feb23 2010 “International Migration of talent: the case of Venezuelan Immigrants” Magaly Sanchez R Session 3 Skilled migration, Trends and Determinants.IN Research workshop Migration and Education-INED . Paris 17 and 18 December. 2010 “Migration, Boundary and Policy “ Table 15. Section on International Migration Magaly Sanchez R . Table Présider. ASA 2010 , Atlanta. Aug 15. 2010 “Colombian and Venezuelan Immigrant Organization in the United States” Magaly Sanchez R ( Presenter) Session 3C. Cumbre 2010 Human Mobility, the Promise of Development and Political Participation. May 14-15. Omaha.Nebraska. 8 2010 “Venezuelan Immigrants in the United States” Magaly Sanchez R Poster Session 7 PAA Dallas.Texas April 15-17 2009. “Restrictive Immigration Policies and Latino Immigrant Identity in United States”.Magaly Sanchez R. Round Table Analyses of Policies and Outcomes: education, Youth and Immigration ASA 2009. San Francisco 2009. “Formation of Immigrant Organizations: A comparison of the Colombian, Ecuadorian and Venezuelan in the United States” Co-Author with Maria Aysa. Immigration Round Table. ASA 2009.San Francisco 2008- “From Exclusion to International Migration: The case of Latino Youths” Parallel Session 1.2 Migration and multilocal livelihoods. International Conference on Research for Development. Bern. Switzerland, 2-4July. 2008.” De la Exclusión a la migración Internacional: el caso de los Jóvenes Latinos”. Session Venezuela. Latino American Sociological Asociación. Universidad Central de Venezuela. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Caracas 24 de Mayo. 2007- Chair and Discussant. Panel Colombian Immigrant Experience. Latin American Sociological Association . LASA 2007. Montreal 5-8 September. 2007- Fellow participant in Salzburg Seminar. Session 440 Immigration and Inclusion:Rethinking National Identity. Salzburg . Austria. March 27 to April 1 2006- Participant in La Chaire Queteklet 2006 . Les systèmes d’information en démographie et en sciences sociales. En quête de leur Identité : Latinos sans documents aux Etats Unies . ( With Douglas Massey)( Searching Identities : Undocumented Latinos in United States) Louvain La Neuve. Belgium, November 27-December 1 2006- Chair and Discussant in the Session Issues in the Measurement and Modeling of Migration Processes. PAA Annual Meeting. Session 92. March 31.Los Angeles . 2005-Participation in the Meeting Seminar Immigrants and Ethnic Communities in Philadelphia and Beyond.Transnational Identity and Behavior: A Ethnographic Comparison of First and Second Generation Latino Immigrants Gateway Conference Room. Bryn Mawr College .October, 28, 2005 2005- Participant in the International Congress of Population .IUSSP. Poster Session 5 . Transnational Identity and Behaviour: an Ethnographic Comparison of First and Second Generation Latino Immigrants. ( With Douglas Massey). Tours. France. Julio, 17-23. 2005- Participation in the International Seminar on Violencia Urbana y Políticas de Seguridad, organized by the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) and the Universidad Central de Venezuela. 9 La perversión de la Violencia:Inseguridad y Violencia como Relación de Poder en América Latina. Mai 23-27. Caracas . Venezuela 2005- Participación en el Seminario Internacional Perspectivas de México y EEUU en el estudio de la migración internacional. (Comentarista. with Douglas S.Massey) . Percepción de la Identidad Latina y Americana por parte de los Inmigrantes. Taxco, México January 27-29 . 2005- Participant in the Integrating the Americas First Annual Conference. Labor in the Americas: Integration and Free Trade. Discussant Integration and International Migration University of Texas .Austin. March 10-11. 2004-Latino and American Identities as Perceived by Immigrants. ASA 2004 International Migration Round Tables. San Francisco .August 14-17 2004-Dialogues “Identity, Diversity and Globalization” . Forum Barcelona 2004. Barcelona. Spain. July 24- 27 2003- Peruanos en Caracas Venezuela. Un estudio piloto. Seminario Internacional Latino American Migration Project. Costa Rica, April 3-6, 2003 2003 -Violence In the Latin American Metropolis: Urban Security as a New relation of Power. IN the Session 662 Violence in a Between the Amercas : Transnational Alliances for an against the Peace and Social Justice. LASA . International Congress. Dallas, Texas, 26-30. March. 2002 -Participant in Workshop Impactos regionales del síndrome urbano en América Central y el Caribe. NCCR-N-S/JACS ACC. Ciudad Mexico. November 11 -15. 2002 –Participant with Globalization and Latino Youth : Exclusion, radical gangs and immigration IN“Globalization and Latino Youths” Seminar . Reid Hall . Paris. Social Science Research Council. September 18-20. 2001- Executive Summary of Sustainable Regional Development in Central America and the Caribbean : Problems and Opportunities. NCCR/SPSP I IN the International Conference Regional and Global Perspectives of Syndrome Mitigation. Research.Grindelwald . Swisstzerland, 18-21 September. 2001- Participant. SPSP International Workshop. Sustainable Regional Development in Central America and Caribbean : problems and Opportunities. Designing a framework, for long term collaborative research , on Urban Violence in Latin-America. NCCR North South. La Habana-Cuba. Julio 1-7. 2001 -President and Organizer of the Special Session Children without shelter: homelessness in the city American Sociological Association. Annual Congress Cities of the Future. Anaheim. Los Angeles. CA, August 18-22, 1998 -Participant. Epa chamo, ponte pilas. Malandros, gangs and street kids: a Culture of Urgency in the Latino American Metropolis Eastern Sociological Society. Session 138.Inequality and Children’s world. Philadelphia 10 1997 -Conference at the Latino American Cultures Program of the University of Pennsylvania . The Culture of Urgency in the Latino American Metropolis: Malandros, gangs, and Street kids. Philadelphia, Feb 1996 - Participant. Working Conference The New Urban Marginality in the Dual Metropolis: Trajectories and Strategies of Poor Urban Youths in France and the United States. University of California Berkeley.Sponsored by the Center for Western European Studies , The Centre National de Recherche Scientifique and The National Science Foundation. Berkeley 1992 -International Congress The 92 Global Forum, ONG International Commitments for the Future. Rio de Janeiro. Brazil. June 2-14 1991-Central Lectura : Riesgos de Perturbación en las relaciones sociales como consecuencia del Proceso de Rehabilitación. (Perturbation risks in the social relations, as an effect of the rehabilitation process). International Congress Rehabilitation of the Barrios in the Third World . Casa Romulo Gallegos. CELARG. Caracas Nov 1990 -International. Congress A.R.C.I Association de la Recherche Cooperative International:-L’Emergence des Nouvelles Legitimites Sociales. (Emergency of the New Social Legitimacy) Celles sur Belles. Poiutiers, France Sept -Les Jeuns et les Nouvelles legitimites sociales , cultural et politiques.(The Youths and the new political, social and cultural legitimacies). Estoril. Portugal, April 1988 -Transformation economique, dinamique culturel et development. (Economique transformations, cultural dynamics, and development ). Chantilly, France 1990 -III Venezuelan Congress of Sociology and Anthropology .El Impacto social de la crisis. (New social legitimacy and Urban Violence in Caracas ). Margarita, Venezuela, June 1987 -Soluciones de viviendas desarrolladas por las poblaciones de bajos ingresos en el Tercer Mundo (Housing solutions developing by the Low Income Population in the Third World). Faculty of Architecture. Association de Recherche Cooperative, Nations Unies and National Council of Science and Technology . CONICIT. Caracas, Venezuela Profesional Association : Member of the ISA International Sociological Association. Member of the IUSSP International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (Since 2005) Executive Committee Member of the Venezuelan Section at the LASA. (Since 2004-2007) American Population Association PAA ( Since 2005) American Sociological Association .ASA. Colegio de Sociólogos de Venezuela. (College of Sociology in Venezuela). ASOVAC. Asociación venezolana para el Avance de la Ciencia. (Venezuelan 11 Association for the advance of Science) Asociación Espacio para la comunicación de Niños y Jóvenes del Barrio y de la Calle. ECOA. Caracas. Venezuela Fundation Pour Le Progress de L’Homme. FPH. Paris. France 12