Miri Song is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, in Canterbury, UK. She joined the University of Kent after completing her PhD in Social Policy at the London School of Economics (1996), MSW at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) in 1990, and her BA in History & Literature at Harvard University (1986).
Professor Song’s most recent book, 'Multiracial Parents: Mixed Race Families, Generational Change, and the Future of Race', was published with NYU Press in 2017. She is also the author of 'the following books: 'Mixed Race Identities' (2013) (co-author with Peter Aspinall), 'Choosing Ethnic Identity' (2003 Polity Press), and 'Helping Out: Children’s Labor in Ethnic Businesses' (1999 Temple University Press). She has also co-edited a number of books on ethnicity, race, and multiracial people.
Miri Song was the Guest Professor in Memory of Willy Brandt at the Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM), in Malmo, Sweden, in Autumn 2013, where she gave a series of research seminars. In Autumn 2017, she was a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC) at the CUNY Graduate Center, New York. In Spring 2023, Miri was a visiting professor at the Institut Convergences Migrations (ICM) in Paris.
Her current research project, 'Racial Identities and Life Choices among Mixed-Heritage People in the United States' (with Carolyn Liebler, University of Minnesota), is funded by the Russell Sage Foundation. Their book, 'Race in the Family', is forthcoming with the Russell Sage Foundation.
As interracial unions and multiracial people are becoming more ordinary in the US, how important are racial and ethnic backgrounds to people with mixed racial heritage and their families? Thus far, while many studies have investigated the identifications of multiracial people, no studies in the US have examined their racial identifications, spousal choices, and their upbringing of their children. In this innovative study, we use our complementary research skills and parallel research interests to understand three intertwined aspects of the lives of mixed-heritage individuals from three distinct racial backgrounds using both qualitative interviews and quantitative analyses of census data.
We ask: How does a person’s race and ancestry responses link to their choice of spouse and the racial identification of their children? Does the answer to this question vary by location in the United States? Does it vary across different mixed-heritage groups?
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| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1764-4905 |
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Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Transversal consequences
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Qualitative research
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University of Kent
University, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Professor of Sociology
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Part of the British mainstream? British Muslim students and Islamic Student Associations
| Authors | Miri Song |
| Year | 2012 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Youth Studies | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
What happens after segmented assimilation? An exploration of intermarriage and ‘mixed race’ young people in Britain
| Authors | Miri Song |
| Year | 2010 |
| Journal Name | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 20 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Children's labour in ethnic family businesses: The case of Chinese take‐away businesses in Britain
| Authors | Miri Song |
| Year | 1997 |
| Journal Name | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 38 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Challenging a culture of racial equivalence
| Authors | Miri Song |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | The British Journal of Sociology |
| Citations (WoS) | 32 |
Introduction: Who's at the bottom? Examining claims about racial hierarchy
| Authors | Miri Song |
| Year | 2004 |
| Journal Name | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 58 |
Can there be a truly systematic and comprehensive theory of race?
| Authors | Miri Song |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 1 |
What Constitutes Intermarriage for Multiracial People in Britain?
| Authors | Miri Song |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Rethinking minority status and ‘visibility’
| Authors | Miri Song |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Comparative Migration Studies |
Why we still need to talk about race
| Authors | Miri Song |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
Multiracial people and their partners in Britain: Extending the link between intermarriage and integration?
| Authors | Miri Song |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Ethnicities |
| Citations (WoS) | 6 |
Raising the bar in analysis: Wimmer'sEthnic Boundary Making
| Authors | Miri Song |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 1 |
Is racial mismatch a problem for young ‘mixed race’ people in Britain? The findings of qualitative research
| Authors | Miri Song, Peter Aspinall |
| Year | 2012 |
| Journal Name | Ethnicities |
| Citations (WoS) | 20 |
Ethnicity, Social Capital and the Internet
| Authors | David Parker, Miri Song |
| Year | 2006 |
| Journal Name | Ethnicities |
| Citations (WoS) | 18 |
New Ethnicities Online: Reflexive Racialisation and the Internet
| Authors | David Parker, Miri Song |
| Year | 2006 |
| Journal Name | The Sociological Review |
| Citations (WoS) | 32 |
Interrogating the 'White-Leaning' Thesis of White-Asian Multiracials
| Authors | Kelly H. Chong, Miri Song |
| Year | 2022 |
| Citations (WoS) | 3 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
‘Keeping the Story Alive’: Is Ethnic and Racial Dilution Inevitable for Multiracial People and their Children?
| Authors | Miri Song, Caitlin O'Neill Gutierrez |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | The Sociological Review |
| Citations (WoS) | 6 |
Is race a ‘salient…’ or ‘dominant identity’ in the early 21st century: The evidence of UK survey data on respondents’ sense of who they are
| Authors | Peter J. Aspinall, Miri Song |
| Year | 2013 |
| Journal Name | Social Science Research |
| Citations (WoS) | 7 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The bi-directional impact of a mixed union. People without a migration background in a union with a partner with a migration background
| Authors | Maurice Crul, Frans Lelie, Miri Song |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
Toward building a conceptual framework on intermarriage
| Authors | Sayaka Osanami Törngren, Nahikari Irastorza, Miri Song |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Ethnicities |
| Citations (WoS) | 5 |