Associate Professor
Canada Research Chair in International Migration
Stephen Leacock Building, Room 729
855 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2T7
罢别濒.:听514-398-6841
贰尘补颈濒:听thomas.soehl [at] mcgill.ca
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Research Areas
International Migration, Comparative Race and Ethnicity, Political Attachments of Migrants, Cross-Border Connections, Intergenerational Processes in Migrant Families
Biography
PhD in Sociology from the University of California Los Angeles 2014.
Two main themes guide my research: one is the importance of family ties for migrants and the inter-generational transmission of culture, socio-economic characteristics and political attachments in migrant families. A second theme is the political transition that international migration involves, and the multiple and shifting socio-political attachments of migrants. In addition to the literature on immigrant socioeconomic and political incorporation, and migrant transnationalism, my work contributes to research on political socialization, the sociology of the family, the comparative study of ethnicity and race, and the political reproduction of nation-states. I heavily rely on quantitative methods such as multilevel modeling, event-history analysis, item-response theory, structural equation models and Bayesian approaches to statistical inference.
Before embarking on an academic career I worked for three years for the New York City Council as a policy analyst and earned degrees from the University of Kassel (Urban Planning), the Graduate Center at CUNY (MA Political Science) and the Harvard Kennedy School (Public Administration).
Publications
Book:
Luthra, Renee, Thomas Soehl, and Roger Waldinger (2018) New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Articles and Chapters:
Soehl, Thomas, Zhenxiang Chen & Aaron Erlich (2024). 鈥淧romises and Limits of Using Targeted Social Media Advertising to Sample Global Migrant Populations: Nigerians at Home and Abroad鈥�. Sociological Methods & Research.
Soehl, Thomas, Dietlind Stolle and Colin Scott (forthcoming) 鈥溾�� Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies [online first].
Erlich, Aaron, Thomas Soehl, and Annie Y. Chen (2023) "" Journal of Experimental Political Science: 10:76-87.
Poole, Alicia听and Thomas Soehl (2023)International Migration Review 57: 1515-1536.
Soehl, Thomas and Ian Van Haren (2023) Ethnic and Racial Studies,听46:3224-3248.
Waldinger, Roger, Thomas Soehl, and Renee Reichl Luthra. (2022) "" Nations and Nationalism 28: 47-65
Soehl, Thomas, and Sakeef M. Karim (2021) "." American Sociological Review 86: 406-429.
Armstrong, Caitrin, Ate Poorthuis, Matthew Zook, Derek Ruths, and Thomas Soehl. (2021) ""听EJP Data Science.听10:1-14.
Soehl, Thomas. (2020) ""听International Migration Review. 54:796-819.
Soehl, Thomas, Roger Waldinger, and Renee Luthra (2020) Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.听46:1240-1260
Luthra, Renee, Thomas Soehl and Roger Waldinger (2019) "" Ethnic and Racial Studies. 42:13, 2302-2309.
Hiers, Wesley, Thomas Soehl and Andreas Wimmer. (2017) Social Forces.听96:361-88
Luthra, Renee, Thomas Soehl and Roger Waldinger (2017) 鈥溾�� International Migration Review [available in early view, open access]
Soehl, Thomas. (2017)听""听Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 43:1831-53
Soehl, Thomas. (2017)听"."听International Migration Review 51:999-1030
Soehl, Thomas. (2016) "."听Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.听1513-1535.
Luthra, Renee Reichl, and Thomas Soehl. (2015)听"." Demography 52: 543-567.
Wimmer, Andreas and Thomas Soehl. (2014) 鈥�.鈥� American Journal of Sociology 120:146-186.
Waldinger, Roger and Thomas Soehl. (2013) 鈥�.鈥� Social Forces 91(4):1239-1266.
Soehl, Thomas. (2013) "." Ethnic and Racial Studies 36 (12):1977-1996.
Soehl, Thomas and Roger Waldinger. (2012) 鈥�.鈥澨�American Journal of Sociology听118 (3):778-813.
* Winner of the 2013 Reuben Hill Award for Outstanding Paper - National Council on Family Relations
Soehl, Thomas, Rosita Fibbi and Constanza Larrucea. (2012). 鈥淚mmigrants' daughters and the labor market.鈥� in , edited by John Mollenkopf and Maurice Crul. New York, Russell Sage Foundation.
Waldinger, Roger, Thomas Soehl and Nelson Lim. (2012) 鈥�.鈥� Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 38(5):711-736.
Waldinger, Roger and Thomas Soehl. (2012) 鈥�.鈥� The International Handbook of Migration Studies edited by Steve Gold and Stephanie Nawyn. New York, Routledge.
Soehl, Thomas and Jenjira Yahirun. (2011) 鈥溾�澨�Advances in Life Course Research听16(4):205-216.
Soehl, Thomas and Roger Waldinger. (2010) 鈥溾�� Ethnic and Racial Studies 33(9):1489-1510.
Media Citation:
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Courses Taught
SOCI 212 International Migration
SOCI 333 Social Stratification
SOCI 400 Comparative Migration and Citizenship
SOCI 504 Quantitative Methods 1
SOCI 520 Migration and Immigrant Groups
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