BIOGRAPHY

A doctor in Sociology, Magaly Sanchez has been Professor of Urban Sociology at the Instituto de Urbanismo at the Universidad Central de Venezuela. At the moment she is Senior Research at the Office of Population Research at Princeton University.

She has been serving as Researcher and Professor in differents Institutions: University of Pennsylvania (2001-2004), Temple University (1997- 1999), Instituto de Sociología de Nuevas Tecnologías. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. (1993).She received the Order Jose Maria Vargas given by the Central University of Venezuela in recognition of her Academic activities and Research trajectory. (July2002)

Her research in Latin America has documented urban poverty, problems in the barrios as well as the social exclusion of poor urban youth and street children, and traced out the consequences in terms of a growing radicalization of youth gangs and their increasing acceptance of extreme violence.

Her book Malandros, bandas y niños de la calle (co-author with Pedrazzini 1992 - French Rev. Vr. 1998) has been an important contribution in what they call the culture of urgency, as a culture of immediate end of life, not of its negation. She observed the emergence and progressive imposition of a new model of socialization and precariousness among the disposed children of both Latin America and the United States. She continues to work in topics related with urban violence in Latin American countries.

In the last years she have been doing research on International Latino migration to the USA and at the moment she is advancing a project in Transnational Identity among young’s first and second generation Latinos immigrants.