Richard Alba's Research Projects

Socioeconomic Attainments of Second Generations in Immigration Societies: An Analysis of Canada, Germany, and the U.S.

• The major goal of this project is to investigate the applicability of the main models of second-generation incorporation-conventional assimilation, segmented assimilation, and pluralist-through a comparison of the educational and occupational attainments of the second generations of different ethnic groups in Canada, Germany, and the U.S.

Disadvantaged second generations: Mexicans in the United States and Maghrebins in France

• The major goal of this project, which involves a collaboration between French and U.S. teams, is to study the socioeconomic incorporation of the second generation of the largest immigrant groups in France and the U.S.-Maghrebins, i.e. Muslim North Africans, in the former and Mexicans in the latter.