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Patrick Simon
Researcher at Institut national d'études démographiques
Publications - 114
Citations - 2271
Patrick Simon is an academic researcher from Institut national d'études démographiques. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ethnic group & Population. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 113 publications receiving 2045 citations. Previous affiliations of Patrick Simon include University of Paris.
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France and the Unknown Second Generation: Preliminary Results on Social Mobility:
TL;DR: The second generation question as discussed by the authors has been a hot topic in the last few years, with growing concern about the future of the offspring of immigrants in France, which has led to the rise of a second-generation question.
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The Choice of Ignorance: The Debate on Ethnic and Racial Statistics in France
TL;DR: A researcher or a journalist trying to compare the situation of ethnic and racial minorities in the United States and in France immediately confronts a crippling obstacle: the concept of "ethnic and racial minority" as such is not used in France.
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There Are No Minorities Here: Cultures of Scholarship and Public Debate on Immigrants and Integration in France
Valérie Amiraux,Patrick Simon +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a historical perspective on the way knowledge has been produced in this field is presented, highlighting the "doxa" of the French integration model in social sciences, elaborating on the controversy over the production and use of ethnic categories in French social sciences.
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Collecting ethnic statistics in Europe: a review
TL;DR: A review of the heterogeneity of methodologies used for converting ethnicity into statistics and their limitations for any potential standardization can be found in this paper, where the authors identify epistemological and methodological dilemmas.