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...
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| ORCID | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9099-0751 |
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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
Disciplines
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Disciplines
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Subject Areas
Methods
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Other
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Qualitative research
Geographies
Roles
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York University
University, Toronto, Canada
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Research
The transnational career aspirations of France’s high-achieving second-generation Maghrebi migrants
| Authors | Shirin Shahrokni |
| Year | 2019 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
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 |
The collective roots and rewards of upward educational mobility
| Authors | Shirin Shahrokni |
| Year | 2018 |
| Journal Name | The British Journal of Sociology |
The minority culture of mobility of France's upwardly mobile descendants of North African immigrants
| Authors | Shirin Shahrokni |
| Year | 2015 |
| Journal Name | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 5 |
Higher Education and Social Mobility in France
| Authors | Shirin Shahrokni |
| Year | 2020 |
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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 |