Migration and Discrimination - Fibbi, Rosita

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Biographie:
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 Neuch?tel. 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. Midtb?en is an Associate Professor in sociology at the University of Oslo and a Research professor at the Institute for Social Research, also in Oslo, Norway. Midtb?en's research centers on immigration and integration, including topics such as employment discrimination, citizenship, descendants of migrants in education and work, and the history of migration research. Currently, he works on two large-scale projects on the integration of and discrimination against descendants of immigrants in Norway, and with colleagues in the US, the UK and the Netherlands he works on meta-analyses of audit studies of racial and ethnic discrimination in labor markets across the world. From 2014 to 2020, Midtb?en was member of the international IMISCOE network's Board of Directors, and together with Rosita Fibbi and Patrick Simon he chairs 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 Soci?t?s Contemporaines and a member of the editorial committee of Ethnic and Racial Studies....

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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.