Past work – Ethnicity and migration

Read more about our past work:

Policy Changes and Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities

• The Intergenerational Transmission of Political Engagement in Immigrant Families (Magda Borkowska, Renee Luthra)
• Ethnic Enclaves, Economic and Political Threat: An Investigation With the European Social Survey (Neli Demireva, Wouter Zwysen)
• “Americanization” of immigrants (Renee Luthra)
• The impact of Brexit on EU migrants in UK Higher Education (Renee Luthra)
• Do ethnic minority candidates mobilise ethnic minority voters? Mostly not. (Nicole Martin)
• The impact of recession and austerity on ethnic minorities (Alita Nandi, Paul Fisher, Malcolm Brynin, Simonetta Longhi)
• Political and ethnic identity (Alita Nandi, Lucinda Platt)

Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities in Work and School

• Migrant educational selectivity and its association with social networks, skills and health (Renee Luthra, Lucinda Platt)
• Skilled migrants have higher earning potential in countries with more inequality (Matthias Parey)
• Do migrants undercut the job quality of natives? (Neli Demireva)

Discrimination and Ethnic and Racial Harassment

Case study: The impact of ethnic and racial harassment on mental health

• The EU Referendum and Experiences and Fear of Ethnic and Racial Harassment (Alita Nandi, Renee Luthra)
• When does hate hurt the most? (Alita Nandi, Renee Luthra, Michaela Benzeval)
• Unravelling the ‘immigrant health paradox’ (Alita Nandi, Renee Luthra, Michaela Benzeval)
• Ethnic discrimination in the labour market (Malcolm Brynin, Simonetta Longhi)
• Living with hate and harassment: the impact on the health of ethnic minorities in the UK (Alita Nandi, Renee Luthra, Michaela Benzeval, Shamit Saggar)

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Some of our key findings:

New dynamics in the labour market

• Migrant Women’s Employment
• Ethnic and gender pay gaps

Social mobility and integration amongst immigrants

• Origins and Destinations: The Making of the Second Generation
• Ethnic In-and Out-Group friendships
• Wellbeing in local areas
• Nationalising foreigners: The making of American national identity
• Immigration and the integration of the foreign born
• The causes and consequences of ethnic and racial harassment
• The integration of children of immigrants

Understanding changes in values, attitudes and behaviour

• Ethnicity and housework

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