 She was a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation and served on the Advisory Committee on Cultural Contact and Immigration for the foundation.Deaux's research and writing interests center on the social psychological aspects of immigration, and in particular the issues that immigrants face in negotiating identities in new circumstances.Examples of this work include stereotype threat processes among West Indian immigrants in the United States and Turkish immigrants in Germany, the relation of ethnic identity to social/political beliefs, support for collective action and the development of national identity.