Team

The Principal Investigator

Mathieu Ichou, Principal Investigator of the 3GEN project, is a tenured researcher at the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED), where he is the head of the International Migrations and Minorities research unit, and a member of the Economic Demography unit. M. Ichou is also a fellow at the Institut Convergences Migrations and an associate researcher at the Observatoire Sociologique du Changement (OSC, Sciences Po). Along with C. Beauchemin and P. Simon, M. Ichou is the PI of the TeO2 survey that is the main source of data for the 3GEN project. His research lies at the intersection of the sociology of migration and social stratification, with publications on the role of immigrants’ pre-migration characteristics on their post-migration outcomes and those of their descendants.

For more information, check out Mathieu’s website.

Research Team

 

Cris Beauchemin is a senior researcher at INED and a fellow at the Institut Convergences Migrations with extensive research experience on international migration. He has participated and led several large-scale research project in this area, including the MAFE project, and the TeO1 and 2 surveys.

To learn more, check out Cris’s webpage.

 
 

Jennifer Bidet, associate professor at the Université Paris-Descartes, uses an intersectional approach to study immigration. She has worked on the dynamics of social mobility in migration, analyzed through the prism of family relations between France and Algeria in a transnational perspective. Experienced in the ethnography of relations within (Algerian) immigrant families, J. Bidet will manage the qualitative investigation of the 3GEN project.

To learn more, check out Jennifer’s webpage.

 
 

Milan Bouchet-Valat is a tenured researcher at INED. His research expertise includes homogamy, social stratification and quantitative methods, especially log-linear and log-multiplicative models used to analyze intergenerational social mobility.

To learn more, check out Milan’s webpage.

 
 

Louise Caron is a tenured researcher at INED and a fellow at the IC Migrations. She obtained her PhD in sociology from Sciences Po in 2019 and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Université Catholique de Louvain. Her research primarily focuses on the links between migration itineraries, integration processes, socioeconomic trajectories and health inequalities among immigrants and their children.

To learn more, check out Louise’s webpage.

 
 

Pauline Clech is a post-doctoral researcher at INED, on the 3GEN project (qualitative part). Her research focuses on atypical forms of social mobility, which take place outside of school and school certification. She has explored this process through three empirical fieldworks: cultural institutions in the communist suburbs (PhD), summer camps (post-doctorate), and the ethnic entrepreneurship of families from Palestinian and Syrian immigration in Chile (post-doctorate). Her research investigates the role of discrimination and racial assignment in these upward trajectories.

To learn more, check out Pauline’s webpage.

 
 

Margot Delon is a tenured researcher at CNRS (University of Nantes). Her research interests include urban sociology and the study of socioeconomic and racial inequalities. She has conducted research on the comparative analysis of the social trajectories of the Portuguese and Algerian children who grew up in the French shantytowns in the 1960s. She is currently investigating the topic of rental property in France and in Italy.

To learn more, check out Margot’s webpage.

 
 

Lucas Drouhot is an Assistant Professor at Utrecht University. Previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, he obtained a PhD in sociology in 2018 from Cornell University. His research focuses on the process of social inclusion among the children of immigrants across multiple dimensions (socioeconomic, relational, cultural) and lines of differentiation (particularly religion).

To learn more, check out Lucas’s webpage.

 
 

Mathieu Ferry is a postdoctoral researcher at INED on the 3GEN project. He obtained a PhD in sociology in 2021 from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. His research focuses on the articulation between status logics and class resources (educational capital in particular) according to the position of individuals in the social stratification. He is particularly interested in the links between so-called "ascriptive" positions - such as ethnicity - and the processes of "status group" formation. He uses both quantitative and qualitative methods in the study of Indian and French societies.

To learn more, check out Mathieu’s webpage.

 
 
 

Haley McAvay is a lecturer at the University of York (United Kingdom). Her research tackles residential segregation, neighborhood effects and ethnoracial inequality using quantitative methods applied to survey and census data. Her recent work explores the links between residential and social mobility over the life course and between generations.

To learn more, check out Haley’s webpage.

 
 
 

Ognjen Obucina is a tenured researcher at INED. He is the co-director (with M. Ichou) of the International Migrations and Minorities research unit. His main research interests include immigrants’ socio-economic integration and family behaviors, with a particular focus on intermarriage. More recently, he has also worked on the intergenerational transmission of identity in mixed families.

To learn more, check out Ognjen’s webpage.

 
 

Ugo Palheta is an associate professor at the University of Lille and a member of the Centre de recherches sociologiques et politiques de Paris (Cresppa/CNRS). He has worked on the educational and social trajectories of working-class youth, using both quantitative and ethnographic approaches, which led him to tackle the issue of the second generation. He is currently working on discriminations on the labor market and on a socio-historical study of Portuguese immigrant women in France.

To learn more, check out Ugo’s webpage.

 
 

Patrick Simon is a senior researcher at INED, the head of the INTEGER department at the Institut Convergences Migrations, and an associate research at the Observatoire Sociologique du Changement (OSC), Sciences Po. He studies the (re)production of minorities, ethnic, racial and religious discrimination and ethno-racial classification in official statistics.

To learn more, check out Patrick’s webpage.

 
 

Rosa Weber is a FORTE-funded postdoctoral researcher at INED and Stockholm University. After receiving her PhD in Sociology at Stockholm University in 2020, she worked as a postdoc at Åbo Akademi University in Finland and Stockholm University. Her research focuses on the socioeconomic outcomes of migrants and their descendants in France and in Sweden, and addresses how these are shaped by neighborhood, school and workplace segregation.

To learn more, check out Rosa’s webpage.

 

International Scientific Committee

3GEN’s international scientific committee is composed of six world-leading experts from North America and Europe who will provide feedback and comparative insights throughout the project.

Richard Alba, Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY).

Héctor Cebolla-Boado, Associate Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) in Madrid.

Cynthia Feliciano, Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis.

Anthony Heath, Emeritus Fellow and Director of the Centre for Social Investigation at Nuffield College, and Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Oxford.

Irena Kogan, Professor at the University of Mannheim and Director of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES). 

Renee Luthra, Senior Lecturer at the University of Essex and Director of the Essex Centre for Migration Studies.