Didier Ruedin — Migration. Society. Science.

Didier Ruedin is a senior lecturer at the Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies at the University of Neuchâtel and a research associate at the African Centre for Migration & Society at the University of the Witwatersrand.

How and why are immigrants excluded?

I use experiments and quantitative analysis to study migration, including how and why immigrants are excluded. This includes discrimination (labour market, housing, health care), attitudes to foreigners, and political reactions in public debates.

Positions and education

University of Neuchâtel: Senior lecturer (maître d’enseignement et de recherche, since 2019); Lecturer (chargé d’enseignement, 2014-2019); Senior research associate (chef de projet, since 2012)

University of the Witwatersrand: Research associate (2018-2029); Visiting research fellow (2015-2018)

University of Kentucky: Visiting scholar (2015)

University of Vienna: Visiting fellow (2012)

University of Neuchâtel: Postdoctoral researcher (2009-2012)

University of Oxford: DPhil Sociology (ORSAS studentship, 2009), MSc Sociology (with Distinction, 2005)

Open University: BSc (Hons) Social Sciences (First Class, 2004).

Contact

Swiss Forum for Migration and Population Studies
University of Neuchâtel
Rue Abram-Louis-Breguet 2
CH – 2000 Neuchâtel
+41 32 718 39 32
didier.ruedin@unine.ch

ORCID: 0000-0001-5213-4316

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Updated 7 July 2025