I am course coordinator for two courses: Demography at ENSAE École Polytechnique (Master's level) and Introduction to Statistical Reasoning and Quantitative Methods at Sciences Po (Master's level) targeting students who come from different social science backgrounds (2024-present). Furthermore, I supervise and examine Bachelor and Master's theses at the Department of Sociology at Stockholm University.

I have previously held seminars in the courses Mesosociology, Ethnicity and Migration, Quantitative Sociology, Introduction to Quantitative Data Management and Statistics, and Basic Sociology at the Department of Sociology at Stockholm University.

My research has been shaped by a strong interest in the intersection between two key stratifying dimensions – international migration and gender. This interest has led me to pursue three research axes:

1) The drivers and dynamics of migration in open and increasingly restricted border settings.

2) Disparities between immigrants and natives across generations and life domains.

3) Gender differences in the labor market, with a focus on education fields.

My approach is situated within sociology, and uses mostly quantitative methods. Furthermore, I have had the opportunity to accumulate substantial experience of analyzing both administrative and survey data, as well as to establish numerous international collaborations.

Research axis 1: Drivers and dynamics of migration

My PhD thesis, Borders and Barriers, took a two-country perspective towards migration, in order to gain a better understanding of immigrants’ experiences both in the origin and destination countries. Specifically, I examined the links between migration and socioeconomic integration in two ultimately distinct settings when it comes to the borders and barriers immigrants face: the Nordic and Mexico-US settings. Until recently, Swedish immigration policy was among the most welcoming to immigrants from different parts of the world. Migration within the Nordic countries, in particular, is characterised by open borders. By contrast, Mexico and the United States are serwebeparated by an increasingly militarized border and internal policing of immigrants has risen dramatically. Consequently, these two settings showcase contrasting policy contexts, which provided a particularly pertinent entry point to studying how policy contexts shape the lives of immigrants in my thesis.

Since my thesis, I have analyzed how the reason for migration relates to subsequent moves in both directions using linked Finnish and Swedish register data. This reveals a particularly steep earnings curve for student migrants, whose earnings eventually caught up and surpassed those of labor migrants. I have further revealed that, beyond economic considerations, factors related to language proficiency and cultural proximity are critical determinants of migration and return migration.

Research axis 2: Disparities between immigrants and natives

While my thesis mostly studied immigrants, my current work switches focus and makes original contributions by assessing the outcomes of the children and grandchildren of immigrants. As immigrants experience a number of disruptions related to relocation, the decisive test is often thought to be the successful incorporation of their descendants in the destination society. My findings reveal diminishing disparities across generations despite a specific persistence of disadvantage among the children and grandchildren of non-European descent, especially with regards to their social and residential attainment.

In my ongoing project Segregation Across Domains, I study the role of workplace and neighborhood segregation for the socioeconomic attainment of refugees, their children, and grandchildren. Public debates about ethnic disparities often involve residential segregation, as there is a strong idea that economic disadvantages stem from concentrations of migrants in neighborhoods. However, living among co-ethnics can also generate certain advantages, such as employment opportunities or mutual support. Mixed findings underline the importance of comparing and contrasting the role of residential and workplace segregation. Moreover, workplaces may play a more important role than neighborhoods in facilitating the integration of refugees, as they imply more intense interaction across ethnic divides. I make novel and policy relevant contributions to the literature on the long-term socioeconomic trajectories of refugees by addressing three research questions using Swedish register data: To what extent does ethnic segregation in the workplace explain the employment trajectories of refugees? And how does this change when we consider the interaction between workplace and neighborhood segregation? How does the socio-economic composition, employment sector, and urban/rural location of the workplace shape the relationship between segregation and employment trajectories? To what extent does the relationship between ethnic segregation and employment trajectories persist across generations for children of refugees?

Research axis 3: Gender differences in the labor market

Despite the grand gender convergence, women continue to experience strong employment and income losses after the birth of children. Building on longitudinal Finnish register data, I reveal that relatively few women pursue a career in physics, engineering, and computer science even when they hold a degree in these fields, but women are able to combine a career in these fields with having children. In other work, I take a couple perspective and find that traditional couples (where he is in a male-dominated field of education and she in a female dominated-field) experience more persistent income declines than egalitarian couples.