David Scott FitzGerald

David Scott FitzGerald is Theodore E. Gildred Chair in U.S.-Mexican Relations and Professor of Sociology at the University of California San Diego. His books include The Refugee System: A Sociological Approach (Polity Press 2023); Refuge beyond Reach: How Rich Democracies Repel Asylum Seekers (Oxford University Press 2019); Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas (Harvard University Press 2014); and Nation of Emigrants: How Mexico Manages its Migration (University of California Press 2009). FitzGerald’s work has received a dozen awards from the American Political Science Association, International Studies Association, and American Sociological Association, including the ASA Distinguished Scholarly Book Award.