Author: lucindaplatt

Professor of Social Policy and Sociology at London School of Economics and Political Science

2000 Families: origins-of migration study

September 4, 2014

2000 Families: identifying the research potential of an origins-of migration study is a Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration Working Paper. The paper outlines the development, data and design of the 2000 Families study, an origins-of-migration study, capturing the country of origin (Turkey), the family origins and the originating causes of migration processes and outcomes. The resulting data comprised … More 2000 Families: origins-of migration study

Smoking links between mothers and young people

August 28, 2014

Inter-generational concordance of smoking status between mothers and young people aged 10-15 in the UK uses Understanding Society to investigate the smoking status of young people aged 11-15 and their co-resident mothers. In addition to identifying who smokes and who doesn’t, the research looks at family factors that contribute to the odds of mothers and children being smokers … More Smoking links between mothers and young people

Sampling recently arrived immigrants in the UK

July 15, 2014

Sampling recently arrived immigrants in the UK: exploring the effectiveness of Respondent Driven Sampling is an ISER Working Paper. The paper describes an adaptation of Respondent Driven Sampling, a chain- referral technique, to sample migrants from Pakistan and Poland who had arrived in the UK within the previous 18 months. It goes on to discuss issues around … More Sampling recently arrived immigrants in the UK

Occupational aspirations amongst children

May 12, 2014

Nurse or mechanic? Explaining sex-typed occupational aspirations amongst children  investigates the role of parental socialisation and children’s agency in the formation of sex-typed occupational preferences using data for British children aged 11 to 15. Access the article from the Social Forces journal website Photo credit: Christian Heilmann  

Migrant diversity, migration motivations and early integration

April 29, 2014

Migrant diversity, migration motivations and early integration: the case of Poles in Germany, the Netherlands, London and Dublin is an ISER Working Paper. The paper demonstrates the relationship between migration motivations and intended durations of stay and subsequent early integration among recent east-west European migrants. Download the Working Paper  from the ISER website

Long-term ill health and work

March 19, 2014

Long-term ill health and the social embeddedness of work: a study in a post-industrial, multi-ethnic locality explores the work experiences of long-term sick people in East London, a post-industrial, multi-ethnic locality. It demonstrates how the individual experiences of long-term sickness and work are embedded in social relations of class, generation, ethnicity and gender, which shape people’s formal … More Long-term ill health and work