Andreas Genoni
Andreas Genoni
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Hi!
I'm a PostDoc working at the BiB in Germany. I'm also associated with the NCCR on the move at the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland, and lecturer at the Goethe-University Frankfurt.
My research examines social inequalities in immigrants’ experiences and well-being. Why do some immigrants become less happy than others, experience discrimination, or feel less attached to the societies they live in? How do these experiences shape their long-term settlement and mobility decisions? I address these questions using longitudinal data and modern statistical methods.
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Get in touch: andreas.genoni(at)bib.bund.de
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News
May 2026 - New publication on how migrants' cultural distance to the country of residence shapes their adjustment
The article introduces the optimal distance hypothesis. It posits that migrants' adjustment is most facilitated somewhere between minimum and maximum cultural distances. Our study challenges the prevailing views that minimum distances are always most beneficial for adjustment and that increasing cultural distance automatically results in rising adjustment costs.
This article is joint work with Jean Philippe Décieux (Bonn) and Elke Murdock (Luxembourg) and has been published in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. Open access | Video interview
April 2026 - Dina Maskileyson at the BiB
I had the pleasure to host Dina Maskileyson (University of Luxembourg) in Wiesbaden. She presented collaborative work with Bettina Hünteler (DIW Berlin) on womens' multimorbidity across migration backgrounds using Norwegian register data.
April 2026 - Lecturer at Goethe University Frankfurt
This summer term, I'm teaching a Seminar on the past and present of assimilation theories.
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