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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. 

Welcome to my homepage. On this site you find more information on my research, publications and teaching. My work focuses on themes of intercultural governance, comparative public policy, and the relationship between knowledge and power.

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.

This Friday the national workshop of the AMICALL project on ‘Attitudes to Migrants, Communication and Local Leadership‘ will be held in Rotterdam. Policy makers and NGO’s from various Dutch cities (Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Delft, Arnhem, Enschede and Utrecht) will be present to discuss good practices on how cities frame and communicate integration policies and how this may affect attitudes to migrants in their cities.

After 27 years, the only Dutch language journal on migration and ethnic studies, ‘Migrantenstudies’, will come to an end. On the 16th of December the final issue of Migrantenstudies will appear during a final symposium.

The EUDO Citizenship Observatory has bundled articles on Comparing Citizenship Policies in a new EUI working paper (click here). It contains what can certainly be described as a very lively debate on the use and construction of indicators in comparative studies of citizenship policies.

We invite applications for two postdoc positions (18 months, 0.8/1.0 fte) for the research project IMPACIM (Impact of Admission Criteria on the Integration of Migrants). This project explores the impact of admission criteria governing migrants’ access to jobs, services (e.g. health and education), welfare benefits and voting on the economic, social and civic integration of non-EU nationals.