Prof. dr. Marcel Lubbers wrote an overview on public opinion on migration for the Adviesraad Migratie that used this document for formulating the advice on quota for migration. You can download the overview and read more about it here  (in Dutch).   Marcel Lubbers is professor of Interdisciplinary Social Science: Relations between groups and cultures….

We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher for a 2.5-year position (0.8 FTE; 30 months). The postdoctoral researcher will become part of the coordinating team of the EQUALSTRENGTH consortium and will work in close collaboration with Dr. Valentina Di Stasio. More details about the vacancy and the link to apply can be found here: https://www.uu.nl/organisatie/werken-bij-de-universiteit-utrecht/vacatures/postdoc-in-structural-ethnic-discrimination-a-comparative-cumulative-and-intersectional-perspective

Valentina Di Stasio’s project “TARGETS – What Makes People TARGETS: A Multi-Actor Study of How Ethnic Discrimination Is Perceived, Tackled and Avoided”.  has started. The project is funded by an ERC Starting grant (2021 call; €1,5 million). Project description: Integrating literature from sociology, social psychology, organization and sociolegal studies, we develop and test a novel, multi-actor and…

Tobias Stark’s project ‘DualNets: Bridges in social networks: Harnessing dual identity to improve interethnic relations’ has started. The project is funded by an ERC Consolidator grant (2021 call; €2 million). Project description: This project will test a new theory: that interethnic prejudice can be reduced by minority members who identify with both their ethnic group…

  Maykel Verkuyten (one of the founders of the Migration and Societal Change focus area), has very recently retired from Utrecht University/ISW/ERCOMER. As a farewell gift,  Jochem Thijs and Anouk Smeekes have composed a Liber Amicorum which takes the form of an edited volume titled: “Migration and Ethnic Relations: Current directions for theory and research…

Title: Hirsute politics: beards and veils as strategic signals of religiosity?   Abstract: Are religious practices partly signals—observable actions meant to inform on unobservable “qualities”? If so, does the reliability of these signals depend on social and political incentives that favour the pious? We aim to address these questions with two research designs. First, we…

Link to online seminar below Title: Towards a Psychology of Refugee Integration Abstract:  The successful management of refugee immigration, including the inclusion or “integration” of refugees in receiving societies, requires a sound understanding of underlying psychological processes. I will present a model of the Psychological Antecedents of Refugee Integration (PARI), developed in collaboration with colleagues…

Link to online seminar below Title: Welfare Chauvinism in Historical Perspective Abstract:  Welfare chauvinism, defined as the willingness to restrict welfare benefits for immigrants and reserve them for the native population, is often understood as a recent phenomenon associated with recent immigration waves and how they interact with established welfare systems. In this presentation, I…

Unfortunately, this seminar is canceled and we hope to welcome Irena Kogan at another occasion   Title:  Importance of non-native accent for the integration of Germany’s ethnic minority youth   Abstract: Sociological research on the role of language proficiency in immigrant integration has been flourishing in recent decades, but one aspect of language—pronunciation—has thus far…

Link to online seminar below Title: Who deserves to belong amidst the recent unsettling events? Exploring migrants’ perspectives on the debate of deservingness and belonging in the ‘Brexit Britain’ and representations of migrants in the public discourse in the context of Covid-19 pandemic Abstract:  Lithuania’s accession to the EU in 2004 granted the freedom of…