Shirin Shahrokni is a sociologist of race, racism, and migration processes. Her first book, published with Routledge in December 2020, documents the life trajectories of descendants of working-class North African migrants who have embarked on pathways of upward social mobility and entered France's elite higher education institutions, the Grandes Ecoles. It unpacks the tensions, gaps, and contradictions between the state's color-blind rhetoric entrenched in French Republicanism, the celebrated principle of meritocracy, and the everyday gendered experiences of anti-Muslim and anti-Arab racisms of these young adults as they move up the country's educational structure. It further delves into the strategies they deploy to navigate these elite milieus, as well as the professional, social, and political aspirations they envision for their futures.
Shahrokni is currently part of a collaborative research project which examines the multifaceted experiences and challenges of racialized international students across Canadian universities, documenting these across multiple sites and relations: work, education, as well as local and transnational ties.
In her new project, currently in its initial stage, Shirin Shahrokni investigates the labour struggles and solidarity practices of precarious migrants in Paris and Toronto.
| Migration Reasearch Hub ID: 3084 | |
| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9099-0751 |
| X/Twitter | https://twitter.com/shahroknishirin?lang=en |
Expertise
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
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Legal-political consequences
Migration governance
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Governance actors
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Immigrant policy and law
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Migration policy and law
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Governance processes
Cross-cutting topics in migration research
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Migration research and theory
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Transversal themes
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Disciplines
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Other
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Qualitative research
Geographies
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York University
University, Toronto, Canada
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Research
The Class Identity Negotiations of Upwardly Mobile Individuals Among Whites and the Racial Other: A USA–France Comparison
| Authors | Jules Naudet, Shirin Shahrokni |
| Year | 2019 |
| Book Title | Elites and People: Challenges to Democracy | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
The collective roots and rewards of upward educational mobility
| Authors | Shirin Shahrokni |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | The British Journal of Sociology |
The transnational career aspirations of France’s high-achieving second-generation Maghrebi migrants
| Authors | Shirin Shahrokni |
| Year | 2017 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
The minority culture of mobility of France's upwardly mobile descendants of North African immigrants
| Authors | Shirin Shahrokni |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 5 |
Higher Education and Social Mobility in France
| Authors | Shirin Shahrokni |
| Year | 2020 |
| Journal Name | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Suggested Research
Secularism and identity, non-Islamiosity in the Iranian diaspora
| Authors | Shirin Shahrokni |
| Year | 2016 |
| Journal Name | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
Devenir propriétaire pour échapper aux discriminations ?
| Authors | Elise Palomares, Anna Perraudin, Shirin Shahrokni |
| Year | 2024 |
| Journal Name | Hommes & migrations | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |