Sandrine Bertaux ('02-'04) was a Guest Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany, on leave from the French Institute for Anatolian Studies (IFEA), Istanbul, Turkey. Her latest publication is “Towards the Unmaking of the French Mainstream: The Empirical Turn in Immigrant Assimilation and the Making of Frenchness” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 42,9 (August 2016). She is currently an Assistant Professor at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey