Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Victor Nee is Goldwin Smith Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Economy and Society at Cornell University. He earned his Ph.D. in Sociology at Harvard University in 1977. Nee received the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007, and has been a visiting fellow at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York.Nee''s research interests focus on studies in economic sociology, new institutionalism, stratification and inequality, and immigration.