Filiz Garip

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Professor of Sociology
Cornell University
Filiz Garip is Associate Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. Her research lies at the intersection of migration, economic sociology and inequality. Within this general area, she studies the mechanisms that enable or constrain mobility and lead to greater or lesser degrees of social and economic inequality. Her work has been published in Population and Development Review, Demography, Social Forces and the American Journal of Sociology. She is currently working on a book, On the Move: Changing Mechanisms of Mexico-U.S. Migration (under advance contract with Princeton University Press), which will characterize the diversity of the Mexican migrant population in the United States. Garip received her Ph.D. in Sociology and M.S.E in Operations Research & Financial Engineering both from Princeton University. She holds a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul.