Mirna Safi
Full Professor at Sciences Po and Head of the CRIS
Mirna Safi (photo Alexis Lecomte)
contact: mirna.safi(at)sciencespo.fr
office: A.214
Mirna Safi is Full Professor at Sciences Po, attached to the OSC/CRIS since 2007. She is Head of the CRIS since January 1, 2019.
Fellows of the European Academy of Sociology (since 2019).
Research topics
Mirna Safi is interested in immigration, ethnic and racial inequality, discrimination and segregation. Her current research focuses on impact of immigration on ethnoracial stratification in the French society, anti-discrimination policies at the workplace, ethnic minority, residential mobility and locational choice.
Latest publications
- 2024 (with Ettore Recchi) (Ed.), Handbook of Human Mobility and Migration, Edward Elgar, 2024, 320 p.
- 2023 (with Louise Caron and Haley McAvay), "Born Again French: Explaining Inconsistency in Citizenship Declarations in French Longitudinal Data", American Sociological Review, First Published November 5th. Available online in Open Access
- 2023 (with Matthew Soener and Olivier Godechot), "Who Benefits from Migrant and Female Labor? Connecting Wages to Demographic Changes in French Workplaces, Sociological Forum, vol. 38, n° 4, p. 1198-1219. Available online in Open Access
- 2023 (with Tianjian Lai & Haley McAvay), "Diverging pathways: the effects of initial legal status on immigrant socioeconomic and residential outcomes in France", European Sociological Review, Published 28 September. Available online in Open Access
- 2023, "Immigration theory between assimilation and discrimination", Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Published online 23 June. Available online
- 2023 (with Haley McAvay), "Class versus race? Multidimensional inequality and intersectional identities in France", Ethnic and Racial Studies, Published Online, March 30th. Open Access Available
- 2023 (with Andrew M. Penner, Olivier Godechot et al.), "Within-job gender pay inequality in 15 countries", Nature Human Behaviour, vol. 7, n° 2, p. 184-189. Published online 24 November 2022. Available in open access
- 2022 (avec Thomas Breda, Nicolas Jacquemet, Morgane Laouénan, Roland Rathelot et Joyce Sultan Parraud), « La discrimination à l'embauche selon le sexe », DARES / IPP, Rapport d'études, n° 23, mars, 109 p. Consultable en ligne
- 2022 (with Andrew Penner et al.), "Within-Job Gender Pay Inequality in 15 Countries", OSC Papers, n°2022-3. Available online on SpireHal
- 2022 (with Marta Pasqualini, Marta Dominguez Folgueras, Emanuele Ferragina, Olivier Godechot, Ettore Recchi), "Who took care of what? The gender division of unpaid work during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in France", Demographic Research, vol. 46, art. 34, p. 1007-1036. Open access journal
- 2021 (collectif, avec des chercheurs de la Dares-MAR, de l'Institut des Politiques Publiques et d'ISM-CORUM), « Discrimination à l'embauche des personnes d'origine supposée maghrébine : quels enseignements d'une grande étude par testing ? », Notes IPP, n° 76, novembre. Consultable en ligne
- 2021 (with Olivier Godechot & Matthew Soener), "The Intersection of Organizational Inequalities. How Gender, Migrant Status, and Class Inequality Relate to Each Other in French workplaces", OSC Papers, n° 2021-1, 28 p. Available online
- 2020 (with J. Schradie, E. Ferragina, M. Pasqualini, E. Recchi, N. Sauger, K. Tittel, A. Zola), "The Covid Year in France: A Tale of Two Lockdowns", Coping with Covid-19. Social distancing, cohesion and inequality in 2020 France, Policy paper n° 5, 21 December. See online the Policy brief
[Version française] « L'année de la Covid en France ou l'histoire d'un double confinement », Faire face au Covid-19. Distanciation sociale, cohésion et inégalité dans la France de 2020, Policy brief n° 5, 21 décembre. Voir en ligne le Policy brief - 2020 (avec Philippe Coulangeon, Emanuele Ferragina, Olivier Godechot, Emily Helmeid, Stefan Pauly, Ettore Recchi, Nicolas Sauger, Jen Schradie, Katharina Tittel et Andrew Zola), « La France confinée. Anciennes et nouvelles inégalités », In: Marc Lazar, Guillaume Plantin et Xavier Ragot (dir.), Le monde d'aujourd'hui. Les sciences sociales au temps de la Covid-19, Presses de Sciences Po, p. 95-116.
- 2020 (with E. Recchi, E. Ferragina, O. Godechot, E. Helmeid, S. Pauly, N. Sauger, J. Schradie, K. Tittel, A. Zola), "Living through Lockdown: Social Inequalities and Transformations during the COVID-19 Crisis in France", OSC Papers, 2020-1, July.
- 2020 (with Ettore Recchi, Emanuele Ferragina, Emily Helmeid, Stefan Pauly, Nicolas Sauger & Jen Schradie), "The 'Eye of the Hurricane' Paradox: An Unexpected and Unequal Rise of Well-Being During the Covid-19 Lockdown in France", Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, vol. 68, online 26 May. Paper available online on Science Direct
- 2020 (with Olivier Godechot, Alexis Baudour, Matthew Soener et al.), "The Great Separation. Top Earner Segregation at Work in High-Income Countries", Maxpo discussion paper, n° 20/3, June.
- 2020 (with N. Sauger, E. Ferragina, E. Helmeid, S. Pauly, E. Recchi, J. Schradie), "Life after lockdown: Getting back on track or charting a new course?", Coping with Covid-19. Social distancing, cohesion and inequality in 2020 France, Policy paper n° 4, 16 June.
[French version] « La vie après le confinement : retour à la normale ou quête d'un nouveau cap ? », Faire face au Covid-19. Distanciation sociale, cohésion et inégalité dans la France de 2020, Policy brief n° 4, 16 juin. - 2020 (coord.) (with P. Coulangeon, O. Godechot, E. Ferragina, E. Helmeid, S. Pauly, E. Recchi, N. Sauger, J. Schradie), "When life revolves around the home: Work and sociability during the lockdown", Coping with Covid-19, Social distancing, cohesion and inequality in 2020 France, Policy brief n° 3, 22 May.
[French version] « La vie entre quatre murs : travail et sociabilité en temps de confinement », Faire face au Covid-19. Distanciation sociale, cohésion et inégalité dans la France de 2020, Policy brief n° 3, 22 mai. - 2020 (with E. Ferragina (coord.), C. Barone, E. Helmeid, S. Pauly, E. Recchi, N. Sauger, J. Schradie), "In the eye of the hurricane. French society a month into the lockdown", Coping with Covid-19, Social distancing, cohesion and inequality in 2020 France, Policy brief n° 2, 4 May.
[French version] « Dans l'oeil du cyclone. La société française après un mois de confinement », Faire face au Covid-19. Distanciation sociale, cohésion et inégalité dans la France de 2020, Policy brief n° 2, 4 mai. - 2020 (with E. Recchi (coord.), E. Ferragina, E. Helmeid, S. Pauly, N. Sauger, J. Schradie), "Lockdown for All, Hardship for Some. Insights from the First Wave of the CoCo Project", Coping with Covid-19, Social distancing, cohesion and inequality in 2020 France, Policy brief n° 1, 20 April.
[French version] « Confinement pour tous, épreuve pour certains Les résultats de la première vague d'enquête du projet CoCo », Faire face au Covid-19. Distanciation sociale, cohésion et inégalité dans la France de 2020, Policy brief n° 1, 20 avril. - 2020 (with Donald Tomaskovic-Devey et al.), "Rising between-workplace inequalities in high-income countries", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 117, n° 17,
- 2020, Migration and Inequality, Polity Press, 216 p.
- 2018 (with Haley McAvay), "Is there really such thing as immigrant spatial assimilation in France? Desegregation trends and inequality along ethnoracial lines", Social Science Research, vol. 73, p. 45-62. Paper available on Sciences Direct
- 2018, "Immigrants in the labour markets of France and the United Kingdom: Integration models, institutional variations, and ethnic inequalities", Migration Studies, vol. 6, n° 2, p. 225-250. Paper online on Oxford Academic
- 2018, "Varieties of Transnationalism and its Changing Determinants across Immigrant Generations: Evidence from French data", International Migration Review, vol. 52, n° 3, p. 853-897. Paper available on SAGE Journals
- 2017, "Promoting Diversity in French Workplaces: Targeting and Signaling Ethnoracial Origin in a Colorblind Context", Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, september. Paper available on SAGE Journals
- 2015 (avec Romain Aeberhardt et Roland Rathelot), « Les difficultés scolaires et professionnelles des jeunes issus de l’immigration : effet de l’origine ou effets géographiques ? », Population, vol. 70, n° 3, p. 599-635. Article en ligne sur Cairn
- 2015 (avec Cris Beauchemin et Hugues Lagrange), « Liens transnationaux et intégration : entre ici et là-bas », in Cris Beauchemin, Christelle Hamel et Patrick Simon (dir.), Trajectoire et origines : enquête sur la diversité des populations en France, Paris, INED éditions, col. « Grandes Enquêtes », 2015, p. 87-115.
- 2015 (avec Yaël Brinbaum et Patrick Simon), « Les discriminations en France : entre perception et expérience », in Cris Beauchemin, Christelle Hamel et Patrick Simon (dir.), Trajectoire et origines : enquête sur la diversité des populations en France, Paris, INED éditions, col. « Grandes Enquêtes », 2015, p. 413-442.
- 2015 (with François Bonnet, Étienne Lalé, Étienne Wasmer), “Better residential than ethnic discrimination! Reconciling audit’s and interview findings in the Parisian housing market”, Urban Studies, published online before print July 28 (doi: 10.1177/0042098015596107). Also available: LIEPP Working Paper n° 36, February, "Better residential than ethnic discrimination! Reconciling audit’s findings and interviews’ findings in the Parisian housing market", with Appendix.
- 2014, Shifting Focus: Policies to Support the Labour Market. Integration of New Immigrants in France, The Migration Policy Institute, October 2014, 33 p.
- 2014, « Assimilation » (p. 14), « Seconde génération » (p. 366-367), « Ségrégation ethno-raciale » (p. 367), in Alain Bihr, Roland Pfefferkorn (dir.), Dictionnaire des inégalités, Paris, Armand Colin.
- 2014, with Patrick Simon, « Les discriminations ethniques et raciales dans l’enquête Trajectoires et Origines : représentations, expériences subjectives et situations vécues », Économie et statistique, n° 464-465-466, p. 245-275.
- 2013, with Roland Rathelot, "Local ethnic Composition and Natives' and Immigrants' Geographic Mobility in France, 1982-1999", American Sociological Review, vol. 79, n° 1 (2014). Paper available on SAGE Journals
- 2013, Les inégalités ethno-raciales, Paris, La Découverte, Repères n° 615.
- 2013, with Denis Fougère, Francis Kramarz, Roland Rathelot, "Social housing and location choices of immigrants in France", International Journal of Manpower, vol. 34, n° 1, p. 56-69.
Scientific Responsabilities
- Director of the "Discriminations and Social Inequalities Research Group" (with Anne Revillard and Morgane Laouenan), Sciences Po, LIEPP
- Scientific Advisor (with Bruno Palier), Stream "Social Policy and Social Innovation", Sciences Po, School of Public Affairs
Directions de thèses - PhD Students
- Charlotte Corchete (co-dir.), Perceptions des recruteurs et des enseignants sur l'évaluation des candidats et des élèves : la place des compétences (Titre provisoire)
- Cao Minh Ho (co-dir.), Les bons élèves de l'immigration ? Les stéréotypes, ressource et frein dans les trajectoires des descendants d'immigrés asiatiques
Teaching
- Perspectives in Economics and Sociology: Issues of Migration, Discrimination, Justice and Religion (Undergraduate)
- Migration and Ethnoracial Inequality (Graduate)
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Article updated on 04-06-2024