Max Castro

Max J. Castro holds a PhD in sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He edited the book Free Markets, Open Societies, Closed Borders? International Migration and Immigration Policy in the Americas. He is a co-author of This Land is Our Land: Immigrants and Power in Miami. Castro has contributed numerous chapters to academic books and published articles in academic journals. For the last twenty years, he has published op/ed columns in English-language newspapers in the United States (The Miami Herald, South Florida Sun Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News) and in Spanish in this country (Exito, El Nuevo Herald) and Latin America (La Prensa [Panama], unomasuno [Mexico]).

Castro was executive director of Greater Miami United, a human relations non-profit. He has taught at universities in North Carolina and Florida. Castro was senior research associate at the University of Miami North-South Center; and was associate research director for the Foundation for Environmental Security and Sustainability in Falls Church, Virginia.

Castro was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1951. His parents sent him to the U.S. in 1961, and later joined him in Miami, Florida. He graduated from Miami Senior High School, Miami-Dade College, University of Florida and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Currently, Castro writes a weekly opinion/analysis online column for progreso-weekly.us, which appears in translation at progreso-semanal.us. He is working on a new book about the development of a right-wing Republican agenda from Reagan to Trump.