Nima Dahir
Biographic Data
| ID | 280048 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nima Dahir |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nima |
| FAMILY NAME | Dahir |
| SIGNATURE | DAHIR N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3662-6617 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Intersecting inequalities: Blackness, immigrant status, and the prevalence of Neighborhood amenities
Black immigrants constitute a growing segment of both the U.S. Black and immigrant populations, yet scholarship on neighborhood inequality has largely treated race and nativity as separate. Prior research shows Black neighborhoods face persistent amenity disadvantages, while immigrant neighborhoods may benefit from co-ethnic clustering that attracts resources and institutions. This article examines how these processes intersect by exploring the n…
A framework for bridging conventional and critical perspectives on immigrant assimilation
This review appraises debates between contemporary and more critically engaged perspectives on immigrant assimilation. We argue that these traditions share complementary concerns with whether and how group boundaries are constructed, transformed, and linked to unequal access to resources and life chances. We propose an analytic framework that systematizes these shared concerns around four questions: (1) “what” type of change is being studied; (2)…
A Harlem Divided: Media, Blackness, and the Making of Difference in Le Petit Sénégal
How are the boundaries of Blackness negotiated in the mediated public sphere when new Black populations transform long-established Black neighborhoods? This article answers this question through an analysis of news media representations of Le Petit Sénégal (Little Senegal), a hub of West African life within the historically Black neighborhood of Central Harlem. Comparing portrayals of Le Petit Sénégal in several hundred news articles published be…
Who Is Black on the Block? Black Immigrants and Changing Black Neighborhoods
In recent decades, the United States has seen a significant rise in Black immigration, reshaping Black neighborhoods and the landscape of Black America. Using census and American Community Survey data, this article examines the relationship between an influx of Black immigrants and changes in neighborhood racial composition and segregation. Findings show an increase in Black immigrants relates to a decline in the Black native population and an in…
Who Owns the Neighborhood? Ethnoracial Composition of Property Ownership and Neighborhood Trajectories in San Francisco
Property owners play pivotal roles in the trajectories of neighborhoods with discretion over upkeep, residential turnover, and affordability. Yet, little is known about how and why the racial composition of ownership changes over time relative to residents within a neighborhood and, in turn, how this relates to the neighborhood’s change and stability. With a self-constructed dataset of all residential transactions in San Francisco from 1990 to 20…
Re-learning to be a woman: Virtual space and post-migration womanhood in the Somali diaspora
Upon migrating, gender ideologies, performances, and relationships are transformed. However, little work has examined how information and communication technologies facilitate this transformation for immigrant women. In this article, drawing on observations of a Somali women created and led phone line and interviews with founders, moderators, and participants on this space, I consider how Somali immigrant women utilise virtuality to create a uniq…
Cleaning Up the Neighborhood: White Influx and Differential Requests for Services
Visible signs of disorder serve as markers of difference across urban space. Sociological theory suggests that variation in collective social control efforts contributes to variation in physical disorder. However, how structural characteristics shape differences in informal social control remains underexplored because of limited data on disorder and social control. Using city service request data and a novel dataset drawing on Google Street View …
The Integration Nation: Immigration and Colonial Power in Liberal Democracies
Curating Training Data for Reliable Large-Scale Visual Data Analysis: Lessons from Identifying Trash in Street View Imagery
Visual data have dramatically increased in quantity in the digital age, presenting new opportunities for social science research. However, the extensive time and labor costs to process and analyze these data with existing approaches limit their use. Computer vision methods hold promise but often require large and nonexistent training data to identify sociologically relevant variables. We present a cost-efficient method for curating training data …
Philosopher Queens: The Lives and Legacies of Philosophy’s Unsung Women
Curating Training Data for Reliable Large-Scale Visual Data Analysis: Lessons from Identifying Trash in Street View Imagery
Visual data have dramatically increased in quantity in the digital age, presenting new opportunities for social science research. However, the extensive time and labor costs to process and analyze these data with existing approaches limit their use. Computer vision methods hold promise but often require large and nonexistent training data to identify sociologically relevant variables. We present a cost-efficient method for curating training data …
Cleaning Up the Neighborhood: White Influx and Differential Requests for Services
Visible signs of disorder serve as markers of difference across urban space. Sociological theory suggests that variation in collective social control efforts contributes to variation in physical disorder. However, how structural characteristics shape differences in informal social control remains underexplored because of limited data on disorder and social control. Using city service request data and a novel dataset drawing on Google Street View …
Re-learning to be a woman: Virtual space and post-migration womanhood in the Somali diaspora
Upon migrating, gender ideologies, performances, and relationships are transformed. However, little work has examined how information and communication technologies facilitate this transformation for immigrant women. In this article, drawing on observations of a Somali women created and led phone line and interviews with founders, moderators, and participants on this space, I consider how Somali immigrant women utilise virtuality to create a uniq…
Philosopher Queens: The Lives and Legacies of Philosophy’s Unsung Women
The Integration Nation: Immigration and Colonial Power in Liberal Democracies
Curating Training Data for Reliable Large-Scale Visual Data Analysis: Lessons from Identifying Trash in Street View Imagery
Visual data have dramatically increased in quantity in the digital age, presenting new opportunities for social science research. However, the extensive time and labor costs to process and analyze these data with existing approaches limit their use. Computer vision methods hold promise but often require large and nonexistent training data to identify sociologically relevant variables. We present a cost-efficient method for curating training data …
Who Owns the Neighborhood? Ethnoracial Composition of Property Ownership and Neighborhood Trajectories in San Francisco
Property owners play pivotal roles in the trajectories of neighborhoods with discretion over upkeep, residential turnover, and affordability. Yet, little is known about how and why the racial composition of ownership changes over time relative to residents within a neighborhood and, in turn, how this relates to the neighborhood’s change and stability. With a self-constructed dataset of all residential transactions in San Francisco from 1990 to 20…
Re-learning to be a woman: Virtual space and post-migration womanhood in the Somali diaspora
Upon migrating, gender ideologies, performances, and relationships are transformed. However, little work has examined how information and communication technologies facilitate this transformation for immigrant women. In this article, drawing on observations of a Somali women created and led phone line and interviews with founders, moderators, and participants on this space, I consider how Somali immigrant women utilise virtuality to create a uniq…
Cleaning Up the Neighborhood: White Influx and Differential Requests for Services
Visible signs of disorder serve as markers of difference across urban space. Sociological theory suggests that variation in collective social control efforts contributes to variation in physical disorder. However, how structural characteristics shape differences in informal social control remains underexplored because of limited data on disorder and social control. Using city service request data and a novel dataset drawing on Google Street View …
Who Is Black on the Block? Black Immigrants and Changing Black Neighborhoods
In recent decades, the United States has seen a significant rise in Black immigration, reshaping Black neighborhoods and the landscape of Black America. Using census and American Community Survey data, this article examines the relationship between an influx of Black immigrants and changes in neighborhood racial composition and segregation. Findings show an increase in Black immigrants relates to a decline in the Black native population and an in…
Intersecting inequalities: Blackness, immigrant status, and the prevalence of Neighborhood amenities
Black immigrants constitute a growing segment of both the U.S. Black and immigrant populations, yet scholarship on neighborhood inequality has largely treated race and nativity as separate. Prior research shows Black neighborhoods face persistent amenity disadvantages, while immigrant neighborhoods may benefit from co-ethnic clustering that attracts resources and institutions. This article examines how these processes intersect by exploring the n…
A framework for bridging conventional and critical perspectives on immigrant assimilation
This review appraises debates between contemporary and more critically engaged perspectives on immigrant assimilation. We argue that these traditions share complementary concerns with whether and how group boundaries are constructed, transformed, and linked to unequal access to resources and life chances. We propose an analytic framework that systematizes these shared concerns around four questions: (1) “what” type of change is being studied; (2)…
A Harlem Divided: Media, Blackness, and the Making of Difference in Le Petit Sénégal
How are the boundaries of Blackness negotiated in the mediated public sphere when new Black populations transform long-established Black neighborhoods? This article answers this question through an analysis of news media representations of Le Petit Sénégal (Little Senegal), a hub of West African life within the historically Black neighborhood of Central Harlem. Comparing portrayals of Le Petit Sénégal in several hundred news articles published be…
Immigration (5 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (4 works) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Diaspora (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (2 works)