Rebbeca Tesfai

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Rebbeca Tesfai

  • College of Liberal Arts

    • Sociology

      • Associate Professor

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

IH 0852

Intellectual Heritage II: The Common Good

Undergraduate

SOC 0825

Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences

Undergraduate

SOC 0835

Ethnicity and the Immigrant Experience in the U.S.

Undergraduate

SOC 1167

Social Statistics

Undergraduate

SOC 1176

Introduction to Sociology

Undergraduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • Saabneh, A. & Tesfai, R. (2021). Does Immigrant Selection Policy Matter? Labor Market Integration of Ethiopian Immigrants in Israel and the United States. Population Research and Policy Review, 40(5), 955-985. doi: 10.1007/s11113-021-09653-8.

  • Tesfai, R. (2021). Is there any merit to the merit-based immigration system? What Sub-Saharan African immigrant labor and housing market outcomes tell us about U.S. economic and immigration systems. Sociology Compass, 15(5). doi: 10.1111/soc4.12873.

  • Tesfai, R. (2020). Immigrants’ occupational segregation in France: “brown-collar” jobs or a Sub-Saharan African disadvantage? Ethnic and Racial Studies, 43(15), 2724-2745. doi: 10.1080/01419870.2019.1686162.

  • Tesfai, R., Ruther, M., & Madden, J. (2020). Precursors to neighborhood revitalization? Immigrant growth and urban neighborhood change in new and traditional immigrant settlement areas in the United States. Urban Geography, 41(2), 268-292. doi: 10.1080/02723638.2019.1647755.