News

 Looking forward to chairing a two-day workshop on ‘the multi-level governance of migration and integration’ together with Ilke Adam (VUB). The workshop is part of the Politicologenetmaal 2014, to take place at Maastricht University 12-13 June.

This wednesday, I’m speaking at a symposium of the UniteEurope project (FP7) on ‘Social Media Analytics for Migrant Integration.’ My talk will cover the topic ‘Social Media and the Local Turn in Migrant Integration Studies’. For more information, see www.uniteeurope.org, or download the full program at link.

The UPSTREAM projects addresses the issue of mainstreaming in immigrant integration govenrance. The project, funded by the European Integration Fund, asks why, how and to what effect integration policies are mainstreamed in a number of cases (EU, Netherlands, UK, Spain, France, Poland).

Happy to be joining the MECLEP project on ‘Migration, Environment and Climate Change: Evidence for Policy.’ This is a three year (2014-2016) project funded by the EU and led by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).

A comparative paper based on the DIAMINT project (www.diamint.eu), co-authored with Stijn Verbeek, has been accepted by the journal Science & Public Policy. The paper is titled ‘Politicization and Expertise: Changing Research-Policy Relations on Migrant Integration in Europe’, and compares case-studies of Austria, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands and the EU.

Always a nice moment in such the tedious process of producing an edited volume: our book ‘Policy Analysis in the Netherlands’ (edited with Frans van Nispen) is now officially ‘forthcoming.’ The book is part of an international series on policy analysis, edited by Geva-May and Howlett.

Accepted for publication: article together with Gerard Breeman and Arco Timmermans on “Analysing Local Policy Agendas: How local executive coalitions allocate attention.” The article will be published online and on paper soon by Local Government Studies.

On March 27th Erasmus University Rotterdam organises a symposium ‘Migration and Diversity Research in the 21st Century; framing the IMISCOE research agenda‘ (in Hotel New York, Rotterdam). The meeting marks the start of the coordinating role of Erasmus University in the IMISCOE network.

On 23-24 January, the second project meeting will take place of project IMAGINATION. This JPI-Urban Europe funded project focuses on the the Urban Consequences and Local Governance of CEE Migration in Europe. The meeting will be hosted by Ozyegin University (Istanbul), one of the project partners. For more information, and for the conference program, see www.project-imagination.eu. 

The Politicologenetmaal is to take place at Maastricht University, 12-13 June 2014. Together with Ilke Adam (Free University Brussels) I will chair a panel on ‘The multilevel governance of migration and integration.’ For the panel, see here, and for the full conference, see here. Paper proposal can be submitted until March 1st.

Christopher Weible from University of Colorado Denver (editor of Policy Studies Journal) will give a guest lecture at Erasmus University Rotterdam on January 15h (12:00-13:30, T3-10). His lecture will focus on ‘Moving forward and climbing upward: the development of policy process research‘.

New paper accepted at Comparative European, co-authored with Mark van Ostaijen: Policy populism: political populism and migrant integration policies in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. The paper is part of a broader special issue on ‘Political Parties and Migration Policy Puzzles: The European Scene’, edited by Jonas Hinnfors, Andrea Spehar and Gregg Bucken-Knapp (Gothenburg University).

I’m looking forward to the panel on ‘Understanding Policy Dynamics; a critical confrontation of theories of the policy process’ that Arco Timmermans and I are chairing at the upcoming NIG Conference. This conference is to take place at the University of Twente, 28-28 November 2013. A full program of the panel is available here.

The inaugural issue of Comparative Migration Studies is now online: www.comparativemigrationstudies.org. It presents a articles on emerging research niches within the fields of migration, ethnic and integration studies. A full pdf is also available for download.

This week the final event of the IMPACIM project on the Impact of Restrictions and Entitlements on the Integration of Family Migrants is to take place in Brussels (Thursday October 31st).