Dr Renee Luthra
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Email
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Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 876090
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Location
6.340, Colchester Campus
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Profile
Biography
Director, Essex Centre for Migration Studies Assistant Director, ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change Course Director, MSc Migration Studies Renee Luthra is a sociologist with expertise in international migration, social stratification, education, and quantitative methods. Her current research interests include migration and inequalities in parenting, education, work and health.
Qualifications
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2010 PhD Sociology, University of California Los Angeles
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2005 MA Sociology, University of California Los Angeles
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2003 BA Sociology / German, University of Texas at Austin
Appointments
University of Essex
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Director, Centre for Migration Studies, University of Essex (1/10/2017 - present)
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Senior Lecturer, Sociology, University of Essex (1/9/2016 - present)
Other academic
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Assistant Director, Research Centre on Micro-Social Change (MiSoC), University of Essex (1/9/2019 - present)
Research and professional activities
Research interests
International Migration
Social Stratification
Higher Education
Parenting
Current research
Origins and Destinations: the Making of the Second Generation
Commissioned by the Russell Sage Foundation, this book, Origins and Destinations: the Making of the Second Generation, examines political, socio-economic, and attitudinal outcomes among the children of immigrants living in New York and Los Angeles. Together with co-authors Thomas Soehl (McGill) and Roger Waldinger (UCLA), this work demonstrates the enduring legacy of international influences - conditions in the parental place of birth, transnational ties, and legal as well as social boundaries between immigrants and natives - on the outcomes of the US raised second generation.
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Ethnic and Racial Harassment, Mental Health and Health Behaviours
Renee was co-Investigator on the ESRC funded research initiative "The prevalence and persistence of ethnic and racial harassment and its impact on health: A longitudinal analysis." Together with a team of scientists at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (PI: Alita Nandi), she used the UK's largest household panel study to examine the prevalence and persistence of ethnic and racial harassment, where such harassment is most likely to occur, and the impact of ethnic and racial harassment on mental health and health behaviors.
Causes and Consequences of Early Socio-Cultural Integration Processes Among New Immigrants in Europe (SCIP)
From 2010-2013, Renee was team member on the NORFACE funded cross-national data gathering effort Causes and Consequences of Early Socio-Cultural Integration Processes Among New Immigrants in Europe (SCIP). This project surveyed recently arrived immigrants from Poland and Pakistan in London, as well as newly arrived immigrants in the Netherlands, Germany, and Dublin. Together with Lucinda Platt (LSE), she has published several papers on new immigrant adaptation and sampling methodologies from this project in International Migration Review, Demographic Research, and Ethnicities.
ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change
The Research Centre on Micro-Social Change (MiSoC) is dedicated to research on the process of social change. MiSoC examines how behaviours, outcomes and attitudes for individuals, households and families are influenced by, and themselves influence, the wider processes of macro-social change.
I am assistant director for the Centre, with primary responsibility for delivering the migration related research and capacity building aims of the project.
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The Definition and Practice of Shared Care
This ESRC funded project examines how separated parents define and practice "shared care," post-separation parenting where children spend substantial amounts of time in both households. We conducted qualitative interviews of separated parents using Understanding Society, a nationally representative longitudinal dataset, as our sampling frame. We develop a new typology of shared care families, demonstrating that contact time is insufficient to identify shared care as a new post-separation parenting style.
Conferences and presentations
Origins and Destinations: the making of the second generation
Invited presentation, 7th SCMR-JEMS International Conference, Brighton, United Kingdom, 20/11/2019
Ethnic and Racial Harassment
Invited presentation, Workshop for the European Level Integration Authorities Network, Vejle, Denmark, 22/10/2019
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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The Sociological Imagination (SC111)
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Quantitative Research on Social Stratification: Inequalities from Cradle to Grave (SC208)
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Migration: Theory, Concepts and Selected Issues (SC982)
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The Context of Integration: Origin, Destination and the Children of Immigrants (SC985)
Previous supervision
Degree subject: Economics
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 21/6/2018
Publications
Journal articles (15)
Luthra, RR., (2020). Mitigating the Hostile Environment: the role of the workplace in EU migrant experience of Brexit. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1-18
Luthra, RR., Soehl, T. and Waldinger, R., (2019). Origins and Destinations: a rejoinder. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 42 (13), 2302-2309
Luthra, RR., Soehl, T. and Waldinger, R., (2018). Reconceptualizing Context: A Multilevel Model of the Context of Reception and Second-Generation Educational Attainment. International Migration Review. 52 (3), 898-928
Luthra, RR., Platt, L. and Salamońska, J., (2018). Types of Migration: the motivations, composition, and early integration patterns of 'new migrants' in Europe. International Migration Review. 52 (2), 368-403
Soehl, T., Waldinger, R. and Luthra, RR., (2018). Social politics: The importance of the family for naturalization decisions of the 1.5 generation. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1-21
Luthra, RR., Nandi, A. and Benzeval, M., (2018). Unravelling the ‘immigrant health paradox’: ethnic maintenance, discrimination, and health behaviours of the foreign born and their children in England. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1-22
Luthra, RR. and Flashman, J., (2017). Who Benefits Most from a University Degree?: A Cross-National Comparison of Selection and Wage Returns in the US, UK, and Germany. Research in Higher Education. 58 (8), 843-878
Luthra, RR. and Platt, L., (2017). The changing face of Pakistani migration to the UK. AAPI Nexus: Policy, Practice, and Community. 15 (1-2), 15-56
Luthra, RR. and Platt, L., (2016). Elite or middling? International students and migrant diversification. Ethnicities. 16 (2), 316-344
Luthra, RR. and Soehl, T., (2015). From parent to child? Transmission of educational attainment within immigrant families: methodological considerations.. Demography. 52 (2), 543-567
Platt, L., Luthra, RR. and Frere-Smith, T., (2015). Adapting chain referral methods to sample new migrants. Demographic Research. 33 (1), 665-700
Luthra, RR., (2013). Explaining ethnic inequality in the German labor market: Labor market institutions, context of reception, and boundaries. European Sociological Review. 29 (5), 1095-1107
Luthra, RR., (2011). The Position of the Turkish and Moroccan Second Generation in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 37 (3), 523-524
Luthra, RR. and Waldinger, R., (2010). Into the Mainstream? Labor market outcomes of Mexican-origin workers. International Migration Review. 44 (4), 830-868
Luthra, RR., (2009). Temporary immigrants in a high-skilled labour market: A study of H-1Bs. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 35 (2), 227-250
Books (1)
Luthra, R., Waldinger, R. and Soehl, T., (2018). Origins and Destinations The Making of the Second Generation. Russell Sage Foundation. 0871549123. 9780871549129
Book chapters (3)
Johnston, LG. and Luthra, RR., (2014). Analyzing data in RDS. In: Applying Respondent Driven Sampling to Migrant Populations Lessons from the Field. Editors: Tyldum, G. and Johnston, LG., . Palgrave Macmillan. 84- 100. 9781137363602
Luthra, RR. and Waldinger, R., (2013). Intergenerational Mobility. In: Immigration, Poverty, and Socioeconomic Inequality. Editors: Card, D. and Raphael, S., . Russell Sage Foundation. 169- 205. 978-0-87154-498-8
Waldinger, R. and Luthra, RR., (2007). Today's second generation: getting ahead or falling behind?. In: Securing the future: US immigrant integration policy, a reader. Editors: Fix, M., . Migration Policy Institute. 978-0-9742819-9-5
Reports and Papers (1)
Luthra, RR., Platt, L. and Salamońska, J., (2014). Migrant Diversity, Migration Motivations and Early Integration: The Case of Poles in Germany, the Netherlands, London and Dublin
Grants and funding
2019
The Research Centre on Micro-Social Change (MiSoC)
Economic and Social Research Council
2017
Making EU Staff Welcome in a Hostile Policy Context: Human Resource Strategies in UK Higher Education
Society for Research into Higher Education
2016
The Research Centre for Micro-Social Change (MiSoC)
Economic & Social Research Council
2015
The Prevalence and Persistence of Ethnic and Racial Harassment and its Impact on Health
Economic & Social Research Council
2012
Transmitting Educational Disadvantage? Intergenerational Mobility in Immigrant Families
The Spencer Foundation
2011
Who benefits from post-secondary schooling?
The British Academy
2009
Migration in Europe - Social, Economic and Policy Dynamics
NORFACE
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