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Mirna Safi
Full Professor, HDR
Centre for Research on Social Inequalities (CRIS), The Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Public Policies (LIEPP)
Fellows of the European Academy of Sociology (since 2019).
Research Interest(s): Migration, Minorities, Segregation, Discrimination, Inequality, Labour market
Discipline(s): Sociology
Biography
Mirna Safi is interested in immigration, ethnic and racial inequality, discrimination and segregation. Her current research focuses on impact of immigration on ethnoracial stratification in the French society, anti-discrimination policies at the workplace, ethnic minority, residential mobility and locational choice.
Thesis Supervision
- Charlotte Corchete (co-dir.), Perceptions des recruteurs et des enseignants sur l'évaluation des candidats et des élèves : la place des compétences (Titre provisoire)
- Cao Minh Ho (co-dir.), Les bons élèves de l'immigration ? Les stéréotypes, ressource et frein dans les trajectoires des descendants d'immigrés asiatiques
Teaching
Editorial Activity
publications
- Haley Mcavay, Mirna Safi. ‘I am fine, but my group is not': exploring the meanings of the personal/group discrimination discrepancy among minority and majority populations. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2024, pp.1 - 25. ⟨10.1080/1369183x.2024.2418014⟩. ⟨hal-04783894⟩
- Martin Aranguren, Carlo Barone, Mirna Safi. Les enjeux de régulation éthique dans les expérimentations de terrain en sciences humaines et sociale. L'Année Sociologique, 2024, 74 (2024/2), pp.475-494. ⟨10.3917/anso.242.0475⟩. ⟨hal-04770410⟩
- Olivier Godechot, Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, István Boza, Lasse Folke Henriksen, Are Skeie Hermansen, et al.. The Great Separation: Top Earner Segregation at Work in Advanced Capitalist Economies. American Journal of Sociology, 2024, 130 (2), pp.439-495. ⟨10.1086/731603⟩. ⟨hal-04717467⟩
- Are Skeie Hermansen, Andrew Penner, Marta Elvira, Olivier Godechot, Martin Hällsten, et al.. Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs. 2023. ⟨hal-04319351⟩
- Haley Mcavay, Louise Caron, Mirna Safi. Born Again French: Explaining Inconsistency in Citizenship Declarations in French Longitudinal Data. American Sociological Review, 2023, ⟨10.1177/00031224231207392⟩. ⟨hal-04272830⟩
- Matthew Soener, Olivier Godechot, Mirna Safi. Who Benefits from Migrant and Female Labor? Connecting Wages to Demographic Changes in French Workplaces 1. Sociological Forum, 2023, ⟨10.1111/socf.12969⟩. ⟨hal-04319370⟩
- Tianjian Lai, Haley Mcavay, Mirna Safi. Diverging pathways: the effects of initial legal status on immigrant socioeconomic and residential outcomes in France. European Sociological Review, 2023, XX, pp.1-17. ⟨10.1093/esr/jcad047⟩. ⟨hal-04231674⟩
- Olivier Godechot, Nils Neumann, Lasse Henriksen, Skeie Hermansen, Feng Hou, et al.. Financialization more than globalization! The contribution of global cities to inequalities. 2023. ⟨halshs-04173209⟩
- Haley Mcavay, Mirna Safi. Class versus race? Multidimensional inequality and intersectional identities in France. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2023, pp.1 - 32. ⟨10.1080/01419870.2023.2193259⟩. ⟨hal-04059692⟩
- Roland Rathelot, Mirna Safi. Taste-Based Discrimination. Handbook on Economics of Discrimination and Affirmative Action, Springer Nature Singapore, pp.1-32, 2022, ⟨10.1007/978-981-33-4016-9_1-1⟩. ⟨hal-03940354⟩
- Andrew Penner, Trond Petersen, Are Skeie Hermansen, Anthony Rainey, István Boza, et al.. Within-job gender pay inequality in 15 countries. Nature Human Behaviour, 2022, ⟨10.1038/s41562-022-01470-z⟩. ⟨halshs-03924647⟩
- Andrew Penner, Trond Petersen, Are Skeie Hermansen, Anthony Rainey, István Boza, et al.. Within-Job Gender Pay Inequality in 15 Countries. 2022. ⟨hal-03606541⟩
- Thomas Breda, Nicolas Jacquemet, Morgane Laouenan, Roland Rathelot, Mirna Safi, et al.. La discrimination à l'embauche selon le sexe. [Rapport de recherche] Rapport IPP n°37, Institut des politiques publiques (IPP). 2022, 109 p. ⟨halshs-03693282⟩
- Marta Pasqualini, Marta Dominguez Folgueras, Emanuele Ferragina, Olivier Godechot, Ettore Recchi, et al.. Who took care of what? The gender division of unpaid work during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in France. Demographic Research, 2022, 46, pp.1007-1036. ⟨10.4054/DemRes.2022.46.34⟩. ⟨hal-03677747⟩
- Émili Arnoult, Marie Ruault, Emmanuel Valat, Pierre Villedieu, Thomas Breda, et al.. Discrimination in hiring people of supposedly North African origin: What lessons from a large-scale correspondence test?. 2021. ⟨halshs-03693421⟩
- Emilie Arnoult, Marie-Odile Ruault, Emmanuel Valat, Pierre Villedieu, Thomas Breda, et al.. Y a-t-il de la discrimination à l’embauche selon le sexe parmi les candidatures d’origine maghrébine ?. 2021. ⟨hal-03428603⟩
- Emilie Arnoult, Marie-Odile Ruault, Emmanuel Valat, Pierre Villedieu, Thomas Breda, et al.. Gender discrimination in hiring: Lessons from a large-scale correspondence test. 2021. ⟨halshs-03524771⟩
- Emilie Arnoult, Marie-Odile Ruault, Emmanuel Valat, Pierre Villedieu, Thomas Breda, et al.. Discrimination à l’embauche des personnes d’origine supposée maghrébine : quels enseignements d’une grande étude par testing ?. 2021. ⟨halshs-03471261⟩
- Olivier Godechot, Mirna Safi, Matthew Soener. The Intersection of Organizational Inequalities: How Gender, Migrant Status, and Class Inequality Relate to Each Other in French workplaces. 2021. ⟨hal-03389160⟩
- Mirna Safi, Roland Rathelot. Qu’y a-t-il de discriminant dans un CV ? Les enseignements de la recherche expérimentale. 2020. ⟨hal-03207358⟩
- Jen Schradie, Emanuele Ferragina, Marta Pasqualini, Ettore Recchi, Mirna Safi, et al.. L'année de la Covid en France ou l'histoire d'un double confinement. 2020, pp.8. ⟨10.5281/zenodo.4382685⟩. ⟨hal-03386552⟩
- Jen Schradie, Emanuele Ferragina, Marta Pasqualini, Ettore Recchi, Mirna Safi, et al.. The Covid Year in France: A Tale of Two Lockdowns. 2020, pp.8. ⟨10.5281/zenodo.4383162⟩. ⟨hal-03386551⟩
- Mirna Safi, Philippe Coulangeon, Emanuele Ferragina, Olivier Godechot, Emily Helmeid, et al.. La France confinée. Anciennes et nouvelles inégalités. Marc Lazar; Guillaume Plantin; Xavier Ragot. Le monde d'aujourd'hui, Presses de Sciences Po, pp.95-116, 2020, 9782724626704. ⟨hal-03203725⟩
- Ettore Recchi, Mirna Safi. Cinq leçons à tirer du premier confinement. 2020. ⟨hal-03147537⟩
- Ettore Recchi, Emanuele Ferragina, Emily Helmeid, Stefan Pauly, Mirna Safi, et al.. The “Eye of the Hurricane” Paradox: An Unexpected and Unequal Rise of Well-Being During the Covid-19 Lockdown in France. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 2020, 68, pp.100508 - 100512. ⟨10.1016/j.rssm.2020.100508⟩. ⟨hal-03203732⟩
- Ettore Recchi, Emanuele Ferragina, Olivier Godechot, Emily Helmeid, Stefan Pauly, et al.. Living through Lockdown: Social Inequalities and Transformations during the COVID-19 Crisis in France. 2020. ⟨hal-03203721⟩
- Nicolas Sauger, Emanuele Ferragina, Emily Helmeid, Stefan Pauly, Ettore Recchi, et al.. La vie après le confinement : retour à la normale ou quête d'un nouveau cap ?. 2020, pp.8. ⟨10.5281/zenodo.3897359⟩. ⟨hal-03393048⟩
- Nicolas Sauger, Emanuele Ferragina, Emily Helmeid, Stefan Pauly, Ettore Recchi, et al.. Life after lockdown: Getting back on track or charting a new course?. 2020, pp.8. ⟨10.5281/zenodo.3897226⟩. ⟨hal-03393046⟩
- Olivier Godechot, Alexis Baudour, Mirna Safi, Matthew Soener, Donald Tomaskovic-Devey. The Great Separation. 2020. ⟨hal-03389188⟩
- Cris Beauchemin, Mirna Safi. Migrants’ connections within and beyond borders: insights from the comparison of three categories of migrants in France. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2020, 43 (2), pp.255-274. ⟨10.1080/01419870.2019.1572906⟩. ⟨hal-02414993⟩
- Mirna Safi, Philippe Coulangeon, Olivier Godechot, Emanuele Ferragina, Emily Helmeid, et al.. When life revolves around the home: Work and sociability during the lockdown. 2020, pp.10. ⟨10.5281/zenodo.3839312⟩. ⟨hal-03393054⟩
- Emanuele Ferragina, Carlo Barone, Emily Helmeid, Stefan Pauly, Ettore Recchi, et al.. Dans l’oeil du cyclone : La société française après un mois de confinement. 2020, pp.8. ⟨10.5281/zenodo.3784110⟩. ⟨hal-03393051⟩
- Mirna Safi, Philippe Coulangeon, Olivier Godechot, Emanuele Ferragina, Emily Helmeid, et al.. La vie entre quatre murs : travail et sociabilité en temps de confinement. 2020, pp.10. ⟨10.5281/zenodo.3839288⟩. ⟨hal-03393052⟩
- Emanuele Ferragina, Carlo Barone, Emily Helmeid, Stefan Pauly, Ettore Recchi, et al.. In the eye of the hurricane: French society a month into the lockdown. 2020, pp.8. ⟨10.5281/zenodo.3783990⟩. ⟨hal-03393049⟩
- Ettore Recchi, Emanuele Ferragina, Emily Helmeid, Stefan Pauly, Mirna Safi, et al.. Lockdown for All, Hardship for Some: Insights from the First Wave of the CoCo Project. 2020, pp.6. ⟨10.5281/zenodo.3757870⟩. ⟨halshs-03070206⟩
- Ettore Recchi, Emanuele Ferragina, Emily Helmeid, Stefan Pauly, Mirna Safi, et al.. Confinement pour tous, épreuve pour certains. Les résultats de la première vague d'enquête du projet CoCo. 2020, ⟨10.5281/zenodo.3757813⟩. ⟨halshs-03070063⟩
- Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, Anthony Rainey, Dustin Avent-Holt, Nina Bandelj, István Boza, et al.. Rising between-workplace inequalities in high-income countries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020, 117 (17), pp.9277-9283. ⟨10.1073/pnas.1918249117⟩. ⟨hal-03098529⟩
- Mirna Safi. Migration and Inequality. Polity Press, pp.216, 2020, 9781509522118. ⟨hal-03222332⟩
- Tianjian Lai, Haley Mcavay, Mirna Safi. Diverging Pathways : How Pre-Migration Selectivity and Initial Legal Status Shape Immigrant Outcomes in France. 2020. ⟨hal-03455992⟩
- Ettore Recchi, Emanuele Ferragina, Olivier Godechot, Emily Helmeid, Stefan Pauly, et al.. Living through Lockdown: Social Inequalities and Transformations during the COVID-19 Crisis in France. 2020. ⟨hal-03099647⟩
- Yaël Brinbaum, Mirna Safi, Patrick Simon. Discrimination in France: Between Perception and Experience. Trajectories and Origins: Survey on the Diversity of the French Population, 8, Springer International Publishing, pp.195-222, 2018, INED Population Studies, 9783319766379. ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-76638-6_8⟩. ⟨hal-03963875⟩
- Mirna Safi. Varieties of Transnationalism and Its Changing Determinants across Immigrant Generations: Evidence From French Data. International Migration Review, 2018, 52 (3), pp.853-897. ⟨10.1111/imre.12314⟩. ⟨hal-03567621⟩
- Christel Kesler, Mirna Safi. Immigrants in the labour markets of France and the United Kingdom: Integration models, institutional variations, and ethnic inequalities. Migration Studies , 2018, 6 (2), pp.225-250. ⟨10.1093/migration/mnx042⟩. ⟨hal-03993346⟩
- Mirna Safi, Haley Mcavay. Is there really such thing as immigrant spatial assimilation in France? Desegregation trends and inequality along ethnoracial lines. Social Science Research, 2018, 73, pp.45 - 62. ⟨10.1016/j.ssresearch.2018.03.005⟩. ⟨hal-03399620⟩
- Cris Beauchemin, Hugues Lagrange, Mirna Safi. Transnational Links and Integration: Between Here and There. Trajectories and Origins: Survey on the Diversity of the French Population, 8, Springer, pp.331-357, 2018, Ined population studies, ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-76638-6_13⟩. ⟨hal-02081895⟩
- Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, Olivier Godechot, Mirna Safi. The Comparative Organizational Inequality Network: Toward an Economic Sociology of Inequality. Economic Sociology (European Electronic Newsletter), 2017, 19 (1), pp.15 - 21. ⟨hal-03455405⟩
- Mirna Safi. Entre ici et là-bas… Les liens transnationaux des immigrés et des descendants. 2017. ⟨hal-03392867⟩
- Mirna Safi. Promoting Diversity in French Workplaces: Targeting and Signaling Ethnoracial Origin in a Colorblind Context. Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, 2017, 3, pp.1 - 14. ⟨10.1177/2378023117728834⟩. ⟨hal-03458543⟩
- Mirna Safi, Ole Hexel. Par-delà le vote du 7 mai, faire face aux discriminations. 2017. ⟨hal-03392925⟩
- Yaël Brinbaum, Mirna Safi, Patrick Simon. Les discriminations en France : entre perception et expérience. Trajectoire et origines, Institut national d'études démographiques, pp.413 - 438, 2016, 9782733280041. ⟨hal-03469995⟩