Thomas Soehl
tsoehl.bsky.social
Thomas Soehl
@tsoehl.bsky.social
Sociology, Canada Research Chair International Migration McGill University
Why childhood is better than adulthood according to my 11 year old.
June 20, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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My review of “Framing Refugees: How the Admission of Refugees is Debated in Six Countries across the World” by Daniel Drewski and Jürgen Gerhards

Updated link to the review:
academic.oup.com/sf/article/1...

Link to the book:
tinyurl.com/3mw3kzxp

We need more comparative work like this.
tinyurl.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Truly one of the greats. He gave us the words and the permission to study inequality in a way that has shifted so many careers and in turn impacted so many lives.

Christopher Jencks, a Shaper of Views on Economic Inequality, Dies at 88 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/b...
Christopher Jencks, a Shaper of Views on Economic Inequality, Dies at 88
His clear prose, illuminating data and novel arguments helped transform debates around issues like public education and welfare reform.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Before the year is up Another one from 2024. From our project on the Nigerian Diaspora. We evaluate how well collecting surveys of migrant populations using targeted advertising on Facebook works. Comparing our data to best reference we could find....
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December 27, 2024 at 7:05 PM
December 26, 2024 at 6:22 PM
Here a recent paper on citizenship acquisition. Written with Alicia Poole. Social Networks matter for immigrants decisions to naturalize (or not). But how? We show that migrants make explicit comparisons to others in their social circle that naturalize.

doi.org/10.1177/0197...
A Citizen Just Like You: The Role of Complex Contagion and Resemblance for Decisions to Naturalize - Alicia Poole, Thomas Soehl, 2023
As is the case with the adoption of many other practices, social influence plays an important role in immigrants’ decision to apply for host-country citizenship...
doi.org
November 16, 2024 at 6:10 PM
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1/ Business lobbyist Virginia Lamp once said anti-immigration attitudes are “based on a type of selfish nationalism.”

Today she's better known as Ginni Thomas: wife of Clarence Thomas, and an "America-first" election denier.

What’s changed — for her and the U.S.?

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October 26, 2024 at 12:33 AM
When one of my daughters who plays hockey in a mixed (mostly boys) team won the best defense player (défenseuse!) award at a tournament she was given this plaque. Really? Ironically in the area named after the awesome Caroline Ouellette.
September 18, 2024 at 12:44 AM
Time to start posting here. It'll probably be a mix of research on International Migration and Women's Hockey. And a bit of research on Women's Hockey...
September 17, 2024 at 8:20 PM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #555,854!
September 17, 2024 at 11:12 AM