The immigrant share of the labor force reached a record high of 18.6% in 2023. As a result, anti-immigration forces have been out in full force with a deeply misguided chorus of “immigrants are taking all our jobs.” Here are some key facts, to set the record straight. 1/

💥from 'Performative Agency' (Butler 2010)

non-negotiable opening note in Lipset et al’s (1956) study of union politics in the printing industry

Most important sentence in report accompanying the final I&O poll in the Netherlands: on Nov 21st 63 percent of respondents had not yet settled on their final vote choice

2 weeks ago I gave my first talk in Dutch at the Dutch Economist's Day (they take political economists too :)), sharing my work on how occupational change + welfare states = ethnic segmentation in the labor market. thanks Eduard Suari-Andreu & Olaf van Vliet for inviting me to be a part!

star-studded panel last night contextualizing the upcoming Dutch elections within broader European trends Matthijs Rooduijn Tarik Abou-Chadi Macarena Ares Stefanie Reher Jan Willem Duyvendak learned a lot, thank you!!

a bus stop ad i could add to my upcoming APSA presentation on “Upward Mobility, Gender, and Progressive Politics” (w/Delia Zollinger ) 🤓

Great to see our paper (w/ amazing co-authors Lea Portmann and @Daniel__auer) now published and open access at AJPS.

For more details and our findings, see the 🧵by @Daniel__auer 👇

also relevant for ongoing debate in Finland as the (three-week-old!) government responds to racist comments made by far-right MP Riikka Purra

theguardian.com/world/2023/jul…

feeling very grateful for and honored by this recognition 🥹 esp bc it has been and remains an ambition of mine to try and help efforts to bridge migration research w mainstream research on inequality in poli sci. thank you APSA Section on Class and Inequality !

a little heartbroken to have missed this but so so so proud and honored to be among this group of 2023 graduates 🥹 we’ve come so far since math camp!!!

glimpse into the possibility of what a collective skill regime could look like in an America committed to green industry

newyorker.com/news/dept-of-e…

end of a fantastic week IPZ - Political Science UZH big thanks to Silja Häusermann and Delia Zollinger for inviting me and to the group for such generous engagement with and feedback on my work. and to zürich for the running views 🥹

such a pleasure to present at the LDE Governance of Migration and Diversity conference yesterday! even tho the golden era of political economy trilemma’s has perhaps passed, grateful the audience let me share my work on the trilemma of immigrant integration