Alireza Behtoui

Alireza Behtoui

Alireza Behtoui

Professor
Office
462 Social Science Building
Research Interests
Sociology of education, sociology of Elites, social movements, Race and ethnicity, Urban sociology, civil society organizations, International migration and ethnic relations
Representative Publications

Behtoui, A. (2023). Empowerment not racialised segregation. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 1-15.  

Behtoui, A. (2022). Upward mobility, despite a stigmatised identity: Immigrants of Iranian origin in Sweden. Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 12(1). 

Behtoui, A. (2022). Social capital, immigrants and their descendants–the case of Sweden. In Revisiting Migrant Networks: Migrants and their Descendants in Labour Markets (pp. 121-138): Springer International Publishing Cham. 

Behtoui, A., & Strömberg, I. (2020). Compensatory school effects and social capital. Social Sciences, 9(11): 193. 

Behtoui, A., Boréus, K., Neergaard, A., & Yazdanpanah, S. (2020). Why are care workers from the global south disadvantaged? Inequality and discrimination in Swedish elderly care work. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 43(16), 155-174. 

Nygård, O., & Behtoui, A. (2020). Access to Social Capital and Educational Returns for Children of Immigrants: Evidence from Three Studies. Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 10(2), 50-66. 

Behtoui, A. (2019). Swedish young people’s after-school extra-curricular activities: attendance, opportunities and consequences. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 40(3), 340-356. 

Behtoui, A., & Leivestad, H. H. (2019). The “stranger” among Swedish “homo academicus”. Higher Education, 77(2), 213-228.