Her research addresses how marginalized individuals conceptualize their social locations, based on race, ethnicity, citizenship, and socioeconomic status. Specifically, her current book project is an ethnographic examination of France’s North African second-generation and issues of upward social mobility, race and ethnicity, and cultural citizenship. Her other research and teaching interests include citizenship; urban sociology; space and place; sociology of culture; HIV/AIDS; international migration; and ethnography and qualitative methodology.