Ludger Pries

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Ludger Pries is Chair of Sociology/Organisation, Migration and Participation at Ruhr University Bochum. Until recently, he was also Wilhelm und Alexander von Humboldt Chair at El Colegio de México. He has worked as lecturer and researcher in Germany, Spain, Mexico, Brazil and the USA. Among his fields of expertise are the sociology of work, organization, and migration in a comparative perspective as well as transnationalism and globalization research. His publications include nineteen monographs and twenty-five edited books and he has reviewed for more than fifty international journals and foundations. In addition to board activities for several journals, he is also co-editor of Soziologische Revue.