Ethnicity and migration

MiSoC’s ethnicity and migration research examines the short and long term consequences of movement across international borders: on the lives of immigrants and their descendants, as well as on both sending and receiving societies.

Research area leader: Renee Luthra

Recent Publications

• Stereotyping and ethnicity gaps in teacher assigned grades -
  1. Hettie Burn
  2. Laura Fumagalli
  3. Birgitta Rabe
• Socialization disrupted: the intergenerational transmission of political engagement in immigrant families -
  1. Magda Borkowska
  2. Renee Reichl Luthra
• Civil society, neighbourhood diversity and deprivation in UK and Sweden -
  1. Magda Borkowska
  2. Juta Kawalerowicz
  3. Gabriella Elgenius
  4. Jenny Phillimore
• Inequalities in home learning and schools’ remote teaching provision during the COVID-19 school closure in the UK -
  1. Sait Bayrakdar
  2. Ayse Guveli
• Leader identity and coordination -
  1. Sonia Bhalotra
  2. Irma Clots-Figueras
  3. Lakshmi Iyer
  4. Joseph Vecci
• Social comparison effects on academic self-concepts – which peers matter most? -
  1. Malte Jansen
  2. Zsofia Boda
  3. Georg Lorenz
• Problematising concepts and methods for civil society research in superdiverse neighbourhoods -
  1. Gabriella Elgenius
  2. Jenny Phillimore
  3. Magda Borkowska
  4. Juta Kawalerowicz
• Migrant women’s employment: international Turkish migrants in Europe, their descendants, and their non-migrant counterparts in Turkey -
  1. Ayse Guveli
  2. Niels Spierings
• Nationalising foreigners: the making of American national identity -
  1. Roger Waldinger
  2. Thomas Soehl
  3. Renee Reichl Luthra
• Inequalities in home learning and schools’ provision of distance teaching during school closure of COVID-19 lockdown in the UK -
  1. Sait Bayrakdar
  2. Ayse Guveli

More Publications

Explainers

• Can good neighbourly relationships have a positive impact on our mental health in times of crisis? -
  1. Dr Magda Borkowska
  2. Dr James Laurence
  3. Professor Renee Luthra
• Like parent, like child: how is political behaviour transmitted in immigrant families? -
  1. Dr Magda Borkowska
  2. Professor Renee Luthra
• Integrating into school: the role of friendships in the educational expectations of immigrant-background students -
  1. Zsófia Boda
  2. Georg Lorenz
  3. Zerrin Salikutluk
  4. Malte Jansen
  5. Miles Hewstone
• Are there ethnic differences in adherence to recommended health behaviours related to COVID-19? -
  1. Renee Luthra
  2. Adeline Delavande
  3. Angus Holford
• Ethnic diversity in UK economics -
  1. Arun Advani
  2. Sonkurt Sen
  3. Ross Warwick

More MiSoc Explainers

Blog

• Peer pressures -
  Angus Holford
• The unexplored impacts of international students -
  Angus Holford
• Bibby Stockholm: legionella is not the only health threat on the asylum barge -
  Amy Clair
• Separating Immigrant Families: Negotiating Care for Children -
  Renee Luthra
• Do host country human capital acquisitions and the context of reception shape the employment and occupational prestige gap between the native-born, economic and non-economic migrants in European countries -
  Wouter Zwysen, Neli Demireva
• Life Course Disadvantage of Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Women in the UK -
  Neli Demireva, Magda Borkowska
• How did levels of UK hate crime change during and after Covid-19? -
  Renee Luthra, Alita Nandi
• Are Ethnic Enclaves to Blame for Social Glue Fractures? -
  Neli Demireva
• The value of keeping ethnic ties: why adherence to recommended COVID-19 health behaviours differs among young adults -
  Renee Luthra, Angus Holford, Adeline Delavande
• Are there ethnic differences in adherence to recommended health behaviours related to Covid-19? -
  Renee Luthra

More Blog Posts

Contact

ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change (MiSoC)
Institute for Social and Economic Research
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester
Essex
CO4 3SQ
UK

Email: brabe@essex.ac.uk
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