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Rosa Weber Acting Lecturer
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Name and title: Rosa WeberActing Lecturer
ORCID0000-0001-8422-7023 Länk till annan webbplats.
Workplace: Department of Sociology Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Room B820Universitetsvägen 10 B, plan 9
Postal address Sociologiska institutionen106 91 Stockholm
About me
I am researcher and Principal Investigator of the Segregation Across Domains project at Stockholm University (awarded by the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare, 4.8m SEK in October 2023), which assesses workplace and neighbourhood segregation using Swedish register data. Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the French Institute for Demographic Studies within the 3GEN project (PI Mathieu Ichou) and conducted an international postodc project (awarded by the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare, 2.4m SEK in May 2021). My research interests lie in social stratification, ethnic inequalities, and international migration.
My ongoing research focuses on migration, integration, and social inequalities in Sweden, Finland, and France. I am currently engaged in empirical work assessing how neighborhood, workplace, and school segregation shape the socioeconomic trajectories of immigrants and their descendants. I also assess gender differences in the labor market, with a focus on child related career costs for women in STEM fields. I further study migration behavior and assess individual propensities to migrate and return migrate. I analyze both administrative and survey data, including linked Finnish and Swedish register data and Trajectories and Origins 2 (TeO2). I use a variety of quantitative methods, among others difference in differences models, event history analysis, and fixed effects models.
My work has appeared in Demography, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, European Journal of Population, and Population Research and Policy Review among other outlets.
Education
Ph.D. in Sociology, 2020
Stockholm University
M.Sc. in Sociology(Research), 2014
London School of Economics
B.A. in Serbian/Croatian and Eastern European Studies, 2013
University College London
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I am course coordinator for a course in 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. 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 is situated within my FORTE project:
- Segregation across multiple domains: How does workplace and neighbourhood segregation shape the employment trajectories of refugees and their children? (Funded by the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (FORTE); 2023-00609). Increased rates of refugee immigration have led to rising concerns about integration in Sweden. Public debates often involve residential segregation, as there is a strong idea that economic disadvantages stem from concentrations of migrants in neighbourhoods. However, scholars show that living among co-ethnics can also generate certain advantages, such as employment opportunities or mutual support. Mixed findings have led to calls for research that compares and contrasts the role of residential and workplace segregation. Indeed, workplaces may play a more important role than neighbourhoods in facilitating the integration of refugees, as they imply more intense interaction across ethnic divides. The project will meet this gap by addressing three research questions: (1) 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 neighbourhood segregation?; (2) How does the socio-economic composition, employment sector, and urban/rural location of the workplace shape the relationship between segregation and employment trajectories?; (3) To what extent does the relationship between ethnic segregation and employment trajectories persist across generations for children of refugees?
In my PhD thesis, Borders and Barriers, I examined the links between migration and integration patterns and migrants' ties to the home and destination country. I focused on two ultimately distinct settings when it comes to the borders and barriers that migrants face: the Nordic and Mexico-U.S. settings. Until recently, Swedish migration policy was among the most welcoming to migrants from different parts of the world. Migration within the Nordic countries, in particular, is characterized by open borders. By contrast, Mexico and the U.S. are separated by an increasingly militarized border and internal policing of migrants has risen dramatically. Consequently, these two settings provide contrasting and interesting examples of the relationship between the policy context and migrants' experiences.
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