Christoph Spörlein

Professor of sociology

Universität Düsseldorf

Biography

I am a professor of sociology at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf. My research focuses on questions related to immigration and immigrant integration from a (cross-nationally) comparative perspective. Specifically, I have studied ethnic inequality in the labor and on the marriage market, within and across educational systems, with respect to residential segregation as well as regarding hostile behavior towards immigrants. In order to generate new insights, I draw on interdisciplinary ideas from diverse fields such as economics, psychology, statistics or data science.

I also have a broad course portfolio ranging from introductory lectures on social structures and the sociology of migration to more advanced seminars on cross-national comparative analysis to methods courses for PhD-students.

Interests

Social inequality
Sociology of migration and integration
Cross-national comparative research
Quantitative methods

Education

PhD in Sociology, 2014

Universität zu Köln
M.Sc. in Sociology and Social Research, 2011

Utrecht Universiteit
B.A. in Social Economics, 2009

Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Recent Publications

More Publications

C Spörlein, E Schlueter (2020). Ethnic insults in YouTube comments: Social contagion and selection effects during the German refugee crisis. European Sociological Review.

E Schlueter, C Spörlein (2020). Explaining Immigrants' Worries About Ethnic Harassment: Germany, 1986-2004. Frontiers in Sociology.

C Spörlein, C Kristen, R Schmidt, J Welker (2020). Mehrheit der Gefl?chteten hat h?here Bildung im Vergleich zur Herkunftsgesellschaft. DIW Wochenbericht.

C Spörlein, C Kristen, R Schmidt, J Welker (2020). Selectivity profiles of recently arrived refugees and labour migrants in Germany. Soziale Welt.

C Ziller, C Spörlein (2020). Residential Segregation and Social Trust of Immigrants and Natives: Evidence From the Netherlands. Frontiers in Sociology.

C Spörlein, C Kristen (2019). Why We Should Care about Regional Origins: Educational Selectivity among Refugees and Labor Migrants in Western Europe. Frontiers in Sociology.

Projects

Immigrant selectivity in Western Europe

investigates trends in migrants’ educational selectivity and its impact on integration-related behaviors.

When immigrants are aiming high

investigates educational achievement and attainment of immigrants in light of greater aspirations.

Bamberger Bürgerbefragung

is a biannual survey of Bamberg’s populace on a variety of topics.

Moving beyond mean differences

investigates the impact of differences in educational systems on ethnic inequality using the framework of “distributional inequality”.

Nazi Biograms

Machine-readable Nazi biograms by Theodore Abel

Side/Personal projects

investigate what I find interesting outside of my work using the tools I work with on daily basis.

Teaching

R Tutorial

Short tutorial on R.

Text mining in R

Short tutorial text mining with R.

Scraping web content using R: A case study

Case study to demonstrate web scraping using R.

Contact

christoph.spoerlein@hhu.de
+49-(0)211-11897
Room 04.23, Ulenbergstr. 127, Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf, D-40225 Düsseldorf
per appointment