Max J. Castro

Max J. Castro, Ph.D. "is associate director of research and studies at the Foundation for Environmental Security and Sustainability. He is co-author of This Land Is our Land: Immigrants and Power in Miami (University of California Press 2003) and editor of Free Markets, Open Societies, Closed Borders? (North-South Center Press 1999). He has taught and lectured widely and written numerous articles, book chapters, and reviews on international migration, Latin America, and Latinos in the United States. Most recently, he has conducted research on environmental security in Latin America with a focus on the Dominican Republic. Dr. Castro has published columns in major U.S. and Latin American newspapers and has appeared frequently as an expert commentator in the media. From 1994 to 2003, he was senior research associate at the North-South Center of the University of Miami. He received the MA and PhD (sociology) degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill."