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Integratie als samenlevingsvraagstuk
Met Arjen Leerkes. In: De Volkskrant, 3-1-2025
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Honoured to be one of the 82 (!!) authors that contributed to The Oxford Handbook of Dutch Politics
My chapter is on Dutch immigration and immigrant policies. See for the whole book: link
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Nederland is een immigratiesamenleving; wen er maar aan.
Opiniebijdrage in NRC Handelsblad, 12-12-2024. Zie: link.
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Het integratiedebat
Mijn bijdrage bij Spraakmakers – NPO Radio1 Zie: link.
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Waarom Nederland lijdt aan een migratieobsessie
In Trouw, zaterdag 9 november 2024. Zie: link.
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Concluding my visiting professorship at Malmö University
A big thank you to Malmö University, to the Malmo Institute for Migration Studies, for hosting me as Malmo City Visiting Professor for this year. Looking forward to continuing our Rotterdam-Malmo collaborations
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New book: Cities of Migration
Check out my latest book with Asya Pisarevskaya; Cities of Migration: Understanding the diversity of urban diversities in Europe. See link (available in Open Access).
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Mijn bijdrage aan het debat over de Spreidingswet
Was een genoegen om gehoord te worden door de vaste commissie migratie en asiel vam de Eerste Kamer over de Spreidingswet. Mijn conclusie: de wet is nodig en goed genoeg om urgent in te voeren. Ik wens de commissie veel wijsheid toe!
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Providing guidance and grip in the migration debate; evaluation of the Dutch Migration Council
I had the honour to be part of the evaluation committee of the Dutch Migration Council; see here our key findings (in Dutch only).
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Revealing patterns of inequality and discrimination in Rotterdam
Check our site www.inclusief010.nl to see how we are pulling discrimination out of the shadows to support evidence-based policymaking in the City of Rotterdam. The site includes a variety of visualizations that reveal neighborhood-level patterns of inequality and discrimination.
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Congratulations to the 8th year students of the master Governance of Migration and Diversity
A big congrats to all students from already the 8th year of our LDE master Governance of Migration and Diversity. Want to know more about the centre or the master, check www.gmdcentre.nl
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‘Nieuwe Kamerleden; graag minder symboolpolitiek en meer echte oplossingen’, in Trouw, zaterdag 28 Aug. 2023
Read my opinion piece for Trouw (28-8-2023) on ‘alienation’ in Dutch politics. Read more.
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Media contribution on Dutch new law on regional dispersion of asylum seekers
“Spreiding kan integratie juist bemoeilijken”, in the national newspaper Trouw, 6 June 2023 (With Elina Jonitz and Maria Schiller)
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Double appointment at Leiden University
I’m very happy to have been appointed ‘double professor’ at Leiden University (next to my appointment at Erasmus University), in the context of our LDE collaboration for the Centre on Governance of Migration and Diversity. Read more.
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New book on Rotterdam as migration city
Check out the latest publication with Paul van de Laar on Rotterdam as city of migration, with the title ‘The Real Rotterdammer Comes From The Outside’ (De Echte Rotterdammer Komt Van Buiten).
