Magaly Sanchez is a senior researcher and visiting scholar at the Office of Population Research at Princeton University, USA. Previously, she was a professor of urban sociology at the Institute of Urbanism at the Universidad Central de Venezuela. Her resume includes research and professorial positions at University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, and Instituto de Nuevas Tecnologias at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. Dr. Sanchez's most recent research focused on international migration to the USA, with special interest in the construction of Latino identities. Dr. Sanchez's other 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 the consequences in terms of a growing radicalization of youth gangs and their increasing acceptance of extreme violence. She continues to work in topics related to the urban violence, and the power of the perverse criminal economy in Latin American countries, as well as the consequences of structural adjustments in recent decades. Dr. Sanchez is the co-author of books Brokered Boundaries: Creating Immigrant Identity in Anti-Immigrant Times and Malandros, Bandas, y niƱos de la calle, and collaborated in editing the book "Chronicle of a Myth Foretold: The Washington Consensus in Latin-America", which was published in 2007. Dr. Sanchez is a Fellow of Session 440, Immigration and Inclusion: Rethinking National Identity, in 2007.