# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alejandro-portes
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:20:09.953Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alejandro-portes"
name: "Alejandro Portes"
slug: "alejandro-portes"
description: "Alejandro Portes is a Cuban-American sociologist known for his research on immigration to the United States and on economic sociology. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and served as president of the American Sociological Association in 1999."
tagline: "American sociologist"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1944-10-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.51
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  historical:           5.679770666666667
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Portes"
    title: "Alejandro Portes"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Portes"
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  - url: "https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_portes"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump