Director of Latin American and Latino Studies Honored

Emilio Parrado, professor of sociology and director of the Latin American and Latino Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania, has been named one of the Delaware Valley’s Most Influential Latinos.

Parrado is featured among a group of more than two dozen prominent Philadelphia area residents in the Impacto newspaper’s annual list. Impacto cited his work on the social demography of Latinos in the United States. “I’m trying to create linkages between Penn and the Latino community,” Parrado says.

To read the full news release, click here.

Parrado's research on migration and how it disrupts the lives of Hispanic immigrants was also the subject of an SAS Magazine feature. You can read that here.

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