Douglas Massey 2025 Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences

At its meeting in Oviedo, the Jury for the 2025 Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences, made up of Javier Echeverría Ezponda, Marta Elvira Rojo, Juan Pablo Fusi Aizpurúa, Pablo Hernández de Cos, Silvia Iranzo Gutiérrez, Araceli Mangas Martín, Ricardo Martí Fluxá, Manuel Menéndez Menéndez, Jaime Montalvo Correa, Leandro Prados de la Escosura, María Dolores Puga González and Astrid Wagner, chaired by Emilio Lamo de Espinosa Michels de Champourcin and with Jaime Pérez Renovales acting as secretary, has decided to grant the 2025 Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences to American sociologist and demographer Douglas Massey.

Starting out from the conception of man as a “migratory species”, throughout his distinguished research career Douglas Massey has made fundamental contributions to the understanding of international migration and its consequences on urban segregation and social stratification, processes accentuated by globalizing dynamics.

With a broad impact across the social sciences, Massey has constructed a theoretical model of the most demanding academic rigour, enabling us to interpret contemporary societies –in which migration has become a structural factor– from a calm, rational and empathetic point of view.

Oviedo, 21st May 2025