Link to online seminar below Title: The cultural paradox of loneliness … and a possible solution Abstract:  Intuitively, members of more collectivistic (or more socially embedded) cultures are often believed to feel less lonely than members of more individualistic (or less socially embedded) cultures. Quantitative comparisons, however, suggest that collectivism does not protect from loneliness….

Link to online seminar below Title: What shapes migrant housing trajectories over time? Pathways to home ownership among Pakistani immigrants in Oslo from the 1970s till today Abstract:  In this paper we trace pathways to homeownership among Pakistani immigrants and their descendants in Oslo, over half a century. We seek to understand what drives different…

Link to online seminar below Title: Scriptural Legitimation and Support for Religiously-Motivated Violence Survey-Experimental Evidence across Three Religions and Eight Countries Abstract: This presentation addresses a seemingly simple but hotly contested question: what is religious about religiously-motivated violence? Next to calls for compassion and tolerance, the holy texts of the three Abrahamic religions also contain…

Link to online seminar below Title: Narratives in Political Representation: Maiden Speeches of Ethnic Minority Members of Parliament Abstract:  Maiden speeches, the first speech given by a newly elected Member of Parliament (MP), are a longstanding tradition in parliaments throughout the world. As a rite of passage to the corridors of political power, with personal…

  Link to online seminar below   Title: Ascriptive Categories and Boundary-Making in Everyday Life   Abstract: Sociologists have amassed a wealth of scholarship on group-level inequalities across many dimensions of social life. In the United States, ascriptive status markers such as race, ethnicity, and nationality operate as social categories which are stratified in accordance…

Link to online seminar below   Title: Ethnic self-categorization: A sign of (un)belonging or an interactional phenomenon?   Abstract: Many second and third generation descendants of immigrants in the Netherlands refer to themselves as Marokkaan “Moroccan,” Turk “Turk,” or buitenlander “foreigner” rather than as Nederlander “Dutch person,” despite being the second generation to be born…

For link to online seminar see below   Title: Can We Overcome Ethnic Discrimination? Abstract: This talk explores avenues to overcome ethnic discrimination. It draws on several empirical studies on ethnic discrimination in the housing and labor market, both field experiments and survey evidence. I argue both that we need to know much more about…

Large scale mobile phone data analysis for refugee and migrant mobility Link to online seminar, see below.   Abstract: Big data sources provide new ways of observing large scale human mobility. Social media traces, mobile phone records, application logs all include digital breadcrumbs people leave behind, and it is possible to collect and process these…

Deservingness perceptions during times of crisis: evidence from survey experiments in Switzerland Link to online seminar, see below.   Abstract: Who should get welfare state support, when, and why, are pivotal questions in public opinion research. As a large body of literature shows, citizens are hardly ever willing to grant support to others completely unconditionally….

Ercomer researchers are presenting their work on a two-day online conference on religious tolerance in an age of secularism. Join us! Read more here!