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Peter Catron is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles. His research primarily focuses on historical sociology with an emphasis on immigration and social demography. Catron's work investigates socioeconomic mobility and the assimilation of immigrants throughout history, particularly how interlinked societal institutions and economic structures influence individual efforts towards achieving social mobility in the United States. Currently, he is leveraging digitized historical data, including censuses and passenger records, to explore trends of mobility among immigrants who arrived between 1880 and 1924. By utilizing these data sets, Catron aims to reconstruct the immigrant experience over their life courses, tracking families through successive censuses and examining the specific mechanisms that both facilitated and hindered economic mobility across generations during the mid-twentieth century.
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