It was a long and challenging process - but I received great support from my supervisors @lgdrouhot.bsky.social @frankvantubergen.bsky.social and Meta van der Linden. Thank you for making this happen, for the advice, the disagreements, and the continued trust you placed in me 🎉

We investigate the so-called 'integration paradox', questioning whether the positive relationship btw education and perceived discrimination is more widespread than we expected. We compare ethnoracial and gender discrimination to answer this question. Spoiler? It might not all be about 'integration'

📩 Where to submit?
Interested in the *online* panel? Submit to nella.geurts@ru.nl
Interested in the *offline* panel? Submit to sanne.vanoosten@compas.ox.ac.uk
Please indicate whether joining the other offline/online panel - if need be - is an option.

We look forward to your submissions!

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🗣️ All are welcome - especially early career researchers
💻 One fully *online* and one fully *offline* panel.

✍ What to submit?
* Abstract (max. 250 words)
* Title
* Authors and affiliations

📅 When to submit?
*September 19* at the latest! We will inform you in the week of September 22.

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I can only thank @mathieuichou.bsky.social, @mathieuferry.bsky.social and @ppraeg.bsky.social for their guidance, support and availability. This master thesis came a long way thanks to their continuous involvement and dedication. I am proud to finally share it with the (academic) world 🎉

Finally, Samitha Udayanga shared insights on happiness trajectories of immigrant men and women in Germany and Australia. Like discrimination perceptions, subjective wellbeing might not always be higher for the most educated...

@mschaeffer.bsky.social‬ and I proposed a framework to analyze discrimination based on different grounds, suggesting that raising awareness of ethno-racial or gender discrimination might fuel individual-level perceptions of other types of discrimination.

@sbvanoosten.bsky.social‬ and ‪@stefaniesprong.bsky.social‬ will use a list experiment to uncover the drivers behind the awareness mechanism, distinguishing between direct/indirect and blatant/subtle discrimination to assess why individuals might over- or under-report discrimination experiences.

@irenepaneda.bsky.social‬ investigates which characteristics matter when we attribute an event to discrimination. Asking people to judge whether an event results from discrimination, she showed that the most educated raters were more likely not to frame their vignette as discriminatory.

Valérie Baggi and Dilyara Suleymanova presented insights from semi-structured interviews focused on the meaning of belonging and its relationship with othering, racism, and discrimination in Switzerland. Discriminated individuals highlight non-national forms of belonging (local, artistic...)

Florian Weber presented his PhD project which aims to explain how perceptions of discrimination, at both the individual and societal levels, can be understood within the context of the integration paradox. His work fruitfully questions the distinction between awareness and exposure mechanisms.

@nellageurts.bsky.social, Lieselotte Blommaert & @lexthijssen.bsky.social find tertiary-educated women with a migrant background to experience more personal discrimination by institutions, while discrimination in public spaces & the labour market drive a paradox among majority women. Not for men!

@genoni.bsky.social showed that the integration paradox isn’t just about highly educated immigrants. Less-educated immigrants also play a role. And depending on how recognisable someone is as an immigrant, the paradox tends to emerge at different stages of their stay in the country.

Ben van Enk presented international comparisons and macro-level mechanisms explaining how different contexts of reception shape discrimination perceptions among selected migrant groups, suggesting that both a micro and macro integration paradox are at play.

Ben van Enk presented international comparisons and macro-level mechanisms explaining how different contexts of reception shape discrimination perceptions among selected migrant groups, suggesting that both a micro and macro integration paradox are at play.

Thank you to all the participants, presenters, co-authors and listeners, specifically @mschaeffer.bsky.social, @cdiehl.bsky.social and Anuschka Peelen, for overcoming the strikes (or trying to!) and delivering such thought-provoking presentations. It makes me very enthusiastic about the future!