Obituary: Aristide Zolberg, leading Scholar in Immigration is no more

  Aristide  Zolberg,  a distinguished political scientist and a preeminent scholar of comparative politics, the history of international migration, nationalism and ethnicity, and immigration policy in North America and Western Europe passed away on 12 April 2013 in New York City. His life was a testimony of struggle against all odds including experiencing war, ethnic hatred, and exile during second warld war. Being a Polish Jew, Zolberg experienced the torture in the hand of Nazis and subsequently became a refugee in the United States. Zolberg ‘s next phase began in academics. He earned a doctorate degree  from the University of Chicago and emerged as one of the leading scholar in the area of immigration. His own experience as an immigrant contributed his first hand experience to the understanding of the immigrants. Zolberg was not onl