Renee Reichl Luthra
2010 (Expected) PhD Sociology
University of California - Los Angeles
2005 M.A. Sociology
University of California - Los Angeles
2003 B.A. (Highest Honors) Sociology and German
University of Texas at Austin
Phone: 310-614-3751
Fax: 310-206-9838
E-mail:
rreichl@ucla.edu
Subfield
international migration, Germany, social stratification
Research Interests
- The "second generation" in Germany and the US
- Immigrant integration and intergenerational mobility
- International comparisons of stratification and mobiity
Publications
Luthra, Renee Reichl. 2009. "High Skilled Temporary Immigrants in a Segmented Labor Market: A Study of H-1Bs" Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 35(2).
Waldinger, Roger and Renee Reichl. 2007. "Today's Second Generation: Getting Ahead or Falling Behind?" Ch 4 in Micheal Fix(eds) Securing the Future: US Immigrant Integration Policy, A Reader. Washington, DC: Migration Policy Institute
- Manuscripts Under Review or in Progress
Waldinger, Roger and Renee Reichl Luthra. “Foreign Detachment: Second generation “transnationalism” reconsidered” (Under Review)
Luthra, Renee Reichl. “ Assimilation in a New Context: The Educational Attainment of the Second Generation in Germany” (California Center for Population Research Working Paper CCPR-2008-050 Under Review)
Luthra, Renee Reichl and Roger Waldinger. “A path to convergence: Labor market outcomes of Mexican origin workers” (California Center for Population Research Working Paper: CCPR-2008-011 Under review)
Luthra, Renee Reichl. “Enduring Inequality: the second generation in the German labor market” (In progress)
Luthra, Renee Reichl. “Unequal chances: Comparing the children of three migrant groups in five European destinations” (In progress)
Luthra, Renee Reichl and Ingrid Tucci. “German Migration Research: A Review” (In progress)
Luthra, Renee Reichl and Roger Waldinger. “Downward assimilation reassessed: A review of findings with the CILS” (In progress)
Luthra, Renee Reichl and Amelie Quesnel-Vallee. “Canadian exceptionalism? Unemployment dynamics of immigrants in Canada” (In progress)
Grants and Awards
Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies, Fellow 2008/2009
Visiting Graduate Student, McGill University, Summer 2007
CEES UCLA Pre-Dissertation Fellowship 2006
CGES Berkeley Pre-Dissertation Fellowship 2006
LERF Graduate Student Grant 2006
IIR Small Grant 2006
Title XI FLAS: German 2005-2006
Summer Research Mentorship 2004
Advisors
Roger Waldinger (chair)
Rob Mare
Don Treiman
William Clark
Conference Presentations
Enduring Inequality: the second generation in the German labor market; Guest presentation at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin); July 2009
Assimilation in a New Context: Educational Attainment of the Second Generation in Germany; International Institute for Sociology World Congress, Yerevan, June 2009
The Impact of Class Background and Migration History on Educational Attainment: A Study with the German Mikrozensus; Second Generation Research Dialogues: Comparative Perspectives on Children of Immigrants, Berlin, January 2009
A Path to Convergence? Labor market outcomes of Mexican origin workers (with Roger Waldinger); ASA Annual Meeting, Boston, August 2008
Foreign Detachment: Second generation "transnationalism" reconsidered (with Roger Waldinger); ASA Annual Meeting, New York, August 2007
Has the mainstream been remade? Mexican-origin workers in the new economy (with Roger Waldinger); PAA Annual Meeting, New York, April 2007
High Skilled Temporary Immigrants in a Segmented Labor Market: A Study of H-1Bs; PAA Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, April 2006
The IT Labor Market and Demand for H-1B Workers; The Face of Global Mobility, Los Angeles, March 2004
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