Dr Haley McAvay

Dr Haley McAvay

Associate Professor of Sociology

Department of Sociology

Room No
OLD.M2.09
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Languages
English, French
Key Expertise
Inequality, Migration, Race/Ethnicity, Residential Segregation

About me

Haley McAvay is Associate Professor of Sociology. Her research focuses on inequalities related to migration, race/ethnicity and space using quantitative methods. Her work has been published in the American Sociological Review, European Sociological Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Demography, Journal of Politics and Social Science Research.

Expertise Details

Inequality Between Native and Immigrant-origin Populations; Ethnic/Racial Inequality; Ethnic/Racial Classification; Ethnic/Racial Identity; Residential Segregation; Neighbourhood Effects; Political Behaviour; Citizenship; Quantitative Methods

Selected publications

Peer-reviewed articles

McAvay, H., & Safi, M. (2024). ‘I am fine, but my group is not': exploring the meanings of the personal/group discrimination discrepancy among minority and majority populations. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1-25.

McAvay, H. & Vasilopoulos, P. "Do neighborhoods empower or disenfranchise? Co-ethnic concentration, spatial disadvantage, and voter registration in France." Journal of Politics, 86(4). https://doi.org/10.1086/729932

Caron, L., McAvay, H., and Safi, M. (2023). "Born Again French: Explaining Inconsistency in Citizenship Declarations in French Longitudinal Data." American Sociological Review88(6), 1066-1103.

Lai, T., McAvay, H., & Safi, M. (2023). "Diverging pathways: the effects of initial legal status on immigrant socioeconomic and residential outcomes in France." European Sociological Review, jcad047. https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcad047

McAvay, H. and Safi, M. (2023). "Class versus race? Multidimensional inequality and intersectional identities in France." Ethnic and Racial Studies46(15), 3167-3198. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2023.2193259

Donnaloja, V, & McAvay, H. (2022). "The multidimensionality of national belonging: Patterns and implications for immigrants’ naturalisation intentions.Social Science Research 106: 102708.

Vasilopoulos, P., McAvay, H., Brouard, S., & Foucault, M. (2022). "Emotions, governmental trust and support for the restriction of civil liberties during the covid‐19 pandemic." European Journal of Political Research, 62(2), 422-442.

McAvay, H., & Pailhé, A. (2022). Leaving the nest in immigrant neighbourhoods: gender and origin differences in FranceJournal of Ethnic and Migration Studies48(19), 4622-4647. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2021.2020628

McAvay, H. and Waldinger, R. (2021). Accelerating the Passage to Citizenship: Marriage and Naturalization in France. Frontiers in Sociology, Vol. 6, 99. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2021.659372

Vasilopoulos, P., McAvay, H., & Brouard, S. (2022). Residential Context and Voting for the Far Right: The Impact of Immigration and Unemployment on the 2017 French Presidential ElectionPolitical Behavior44(4), 1703-1730.

Langer, M., Vasilopoulos, P., McAvay, H., & Jost, J. T. (2020). "System justification in France: liberté, égalité, fraternité.Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences34, 185-191.

McAvay, H. (2020). Socioeconomic status and long-term exposure to disadvantaged neighbourhoods in FranceUrban Studies57(13), 2663-2680.

McAvay, H (2018). The Ethnoracial Context of Residential Mobility in France: Neighborhood Out-Migration and RelocationPopulation, Space and Place 24(6), e2138.

McAvay, H. (2018). How Durable Are Ethnoracial Segregation and Spatial Disadvantage? Intergenerational Contextual Mobility in France. Demography55(4), 1507-1545.

McAvay, H., & Safi, M. (2018). Is there really such thing as immigrant spatial assimilation in France? Desegregation trends and inequality along ethnoracial linesSocial Science Research73, 45-62.

McAvay, H. (2018). Immigrants' spatial incorporation in housing and neighborhoods: Evidence from France. Population73(2), 333-362.

Research

Haley is interested in social inequality impacting migrants and their descendants in European societies. Her work has strongly focused on the spatial dimension of inequalities, investigating forms of residential segregation and its consequences for socioeconomic and political outcomes. She is also interested in how migration relates to ethnoracial inequality and discrimination, classification and identity.

Haley’s work relies on quantitative methods using survey and census data, with a strong interest in longitudinal data analysis.

Teaching and PhD supervision

Haley contributes to teaching on Advanced Social Theory, Advanced Social Research Methods, and the MSc in Inequalities and Social Science Dissertation. She is interested in supervising PhD projects on migration and inequality, ethnoracial inequality, ethnroacial discrimination, and residential segregation/neighbourhood effects.