Cornell Research

Expertise

International migration; labor and employment relations; race and ethnicity; social mobility; stratification and inequality; global and transnational sociology; demography; comparative and historical sociology; qualitative methods; Africana studies

Current Research Interest

Issues of belonging and labor market outcomes for foreign-born individuals; the link between geographic mobility and socioeconomic mobility for migrants and their families; how resource inequality affects youths’ transition to adulthood and work in sub-Saharan Africa

Selected Publications

Ivory, Tristan, Guilherme Kenjy Chihaya Da Silva, and Hirohisa Takenoshita. “Insider Out: Cross-National Differences in Foreign-Born Female Labor Force Participation in the United States, Sweden, and Japan. International Migration Review (forthcoming, 2023).

Ivory, Tristan. “Strategic Ethnic Performance and the Construction of Authenticity in Urban Japan.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 40, no. 1 (2017): 172–189.

Cornell Research Website Article

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