News

Just released: the next issue of Perspectives on Europe, the journal of the Council for European Studies. This year’s second issue features a miniforum on ‘Gender and Sexual Politics’, edited by Isabelle Engeli and David Paternotte. In addition, a couple of very interesting papers on local Islam and on right-wing extremism in Germany. You can find the issue through this link.

Comparative Migration Studies (CMS) is an international, peer-reviewed journal for comparative research in the field of migration, integration and ethnic studies.

New article published in Comparative European Politics: ‘Deconstructing the Dutch multicultural model: A frame perspective on Dutch immigrant integration policymaking‘ (co-authored with Jan Willem Duyvendak). The article is part of a special issue on “The Problems with National Models of Integration: A Franco-Dutch Comparison.” Click here for the full special issue, and click here for the article.

Co-chairing (with Saskia Bonjour and Ilke Adam) a two-day panel on Multilevel Governance of Migration and Integration Policies at Politicologenetmaal in Amsterdam, 31 May- June 1st. Really time for in-depth discussions on a couple of very interesting papers on migration and integration policies on EU, national, regional and local level.

At this week’s annual conference of the Council for European Studies in Boston (MA), I’ll be chairing two sessions and presenting a paper in a panel on Agendasetting in a multi-level setting. One panel on ‘migrant policies in Europe’s system of multi-level governance’, together with Oliver Schmidtke (University of Victoria). The second on ‘multilevel democratic institutions and diverse democratic processes.’

Great news: the Dutch Science Foundation has accepted our proposal for a new OA journal to be launched in early 2013: the International Journal of Comparative Migration Studies.

Check out the latest issue of Perspectives on Europe (the journal of the Council for European Studies), on ‘ Europe in Crisis’. Proud to present my first ‘Perspectives’ as editor! See: link.

Please find here a call for papers for a panel on “The multilevel governance of migration and integration policies.” The panel will be organized by Ilke Adam, Saskia Bonjour and me, and is to take place during the Politicologenetmaal 2012, on 31 May – 1 June  in Amsterdam.

The research cluster on migration and integration policies of the Erasmus University Rotterdam is now complete for the upcoming year. The cluster involves various joint projects of the department of Public Administration (research group Public Policy & Politics) and the department of Sociology (CIMIC Institute), each concentrating on issues of governance in the domains of migration and migrant integration. Working on 6 long-term scientific projects, the cluster now involves a group of 8 persons from both departments. 

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This year I will be associate researcher of the Center on Migration, Policy and Society of the University of Oxford. I’ll be working with a.o. Dr. Sarah Spencer and Dr. Ben Gidley on our joint projects IMPACIM and AMICALL . In addition, COMPAS will be the base for the UK fieldwork of my VENI project on ‘Agenda Dynamics and the Multi-Level Governance of Migrant Integration.’

Call for papers for double special issue of the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis on ‘Policy Analysis at Times of Crisis’. Contributions are invited that deal with the role of policy analysis and opportunities (or obstacles) for policy learning in cases on the migration crisis, the security crisis, the welfare state crisis or the financial crisis. The special issues will be edited by Frans van Nispen and me. Please find the call for papers here: JCPA Call for papers – Policy Analysis at Times of Crises. 

The PROSINT comparative report on pre-entry policies is ready: ‘Integration from abroad? Perception and impacts of pre-entry tests for third-country nationals.’  The report is available for download here: Integration from abroad.

The Dutch report of the PROSINT project is ready: ‘Shaping Immigration for Integration? The Dutch migration-integration nexus in perspective.’  The report is available for download here: PROSINT Dutch report.

Next year I will be chairing two panel sessions at the Council for European Studies conference in Boston (March 22nd-24th 2012). Both deal with the issue of multi-level governance of migrant integration in a comparative way.