Marina M. Doucerain

I study the social mechanisms – social relationships and networks in particular – underlying how people become functional members of a new cultural or social group. I focus primarily on the changes that immigrants face when settling in a new society, with the firm belief that if we understand this change process more deeply, then we can better support the people going through it.
I received an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in social science (cultural psychology and applied linguistics) at Concordia University, (Montreal, QC, Canada) and then completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Université du Québec à Montréal (Montreal, QC, Canada). I am presently an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology at Université du Québec à Montréal.