Dear RSF:
Please join us next Wednesday, April 9th at 11 in the library and on Zoom for a presentation by Visiting Scholar Lucas Drouhot entitled “Rethinking assimilation in the United States: preliminary results from new data.”
Drouhot is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Utrecht, where he has been since 2021. Previously he held a postdoctoral position at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. He holds a PhD in Sociology from Cornell University, a BA in Sociology from McGill University and a License in Political Science from the University of Lyon.
His research interests are in the study of international migration and immigrant incorporation, ethnoracial diversity (race, ethnicity, religion), social stratification and social networks. His work has appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, the Annual Review of Sociology, Demography, Sociological Science, the International Migration Review, the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Social Networks, and other outlets, and preprints of selected publications are available on his website: https://www.lucasdrouhot.com/.
At RSF, Drouhot is writing a book (with collaborators René Flores and Edward Telles) proposing a new theoretical account of immigrant integration. Drawing on a unique national survey he fielded in 2023, Drouhot contends that the two current main theories of immigrant integration are limited by conceptual and methodological shortcomings which he is addressing using an inductive, data-driven approach.