Sorana Toma

Biography

Sorana Toma is a quantitative sociologist specialized in the analysis of international migration and immigrant incorporation. Her research focuses on the drivers of migration, particularly the role of migrant networks and migration policies. Further she is interested in the processes of economic and spatial assimilation of immigrants and their children and how these vary across contexts.

Her work examined various forms of migration, from low-skilled labour migration to student and academic mobility. I privilege a comparative lens, contrasting different migration streams and destination countries. Her work has been published in the International Migration Review, Population Space and Place, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Population, Cahiers Québécois de Démographie, among others.