Migration and Discrimination

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Rosita Fibbi is doctor in political science from the University of La Sapienza in Rome, with educational background also from Zurich and Geneva. She has taught Sociology of Migration at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Lausanne. She is senior researcher and project manager at the Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies at the University of Neuchâtel. After various research projects on the integration trajectories of children of immigrants, she published carried out the first field experiments of discrimination against children of immigrants in Switzerland, thus significantly contributing to put this topic on the political agenda in the country. Fibbi nourished this debate with further studies on antidiscrimination policy in the public and private sector. She currently heads a large project on discrimination in Switzerland, in the frame of the NCCR on the move. 

Dr. Arnfinn H. Midtbøen earned his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Oslo, Norway, in 2013. Midtbøen works on a broad set of research issues related to immigration, integration and labour market discrimination. Currently, he is head of a large-scale research project on descendants of immigrants in education and working life in Norway, and with colleagues in the US, the UK and the Netherlands he works on meta-analyses of audit and correspondence test studies of racial and ethnic discrimination in labor markets across the world. He is currently member of The Young Academy of Norway, co-editor of the high-quality Norwegian Journal of Social Research, member of the international IMISCOE network's Board of Directors, and the co-chair of the IMISCOE research cluster Discrimination in Cross-National Perspective.

Dr. Patrick Simon is Director of research at INED (Institut National d'Etudes Demographiques - National demographic institute, Paris, France) and is fellow researcher at the Center of European Studies (CEE) at Sciences Po. He is studying antidiscrimination policies, ethnic classification and the integration of ethnic minorities in European countries. He was the PI of the survey Trajectories and Origins undertaken in 2008-2009 by INED and INSEE and is co-coordinating the new survey TeO which will be conducted in 2019-2020. Simon will be chairing the department on integration and discrimination at the Institute for migrations from 2018. He is the co-editor of Sociétés Contemporaines and a member of the editorial committee of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Chapter 1: Introduction: the case for discrimination research.- Chapter 2. Concepts of discrimination.- Chapter 3. Theories of discrimination.- Chapter 4. Methods of measurement.- Chapter 5. Discrimination across social domains.- Chapter 6. Consequences of and responses to discrimination.- Chapter 7. Combatting discrimination.- Chapter 8. Conclusions.