Researchers' pages

Maurice Crul

Maurice Crul is a Professor at the Free University in Amsterdam and the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He is the international chair of IMISCOE, a network of excellence that includes 38 research institutes in the fields of migration and diversity in 18 European countries: www.imiscoe.org In the last twenty years he mostly worked on the topic of education and children of immigrants, first within the Dutch context and in the last ten years in a comparative European and transatlantic context.

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Elif Keskiner

Elif Keskiner has completed her undergraduate studies in Political Science and International Relations in Bogazici University, Turkey. She received her MA degree on European Union Studies from Leiden University, where she has written her dissertation on discourses of integration among children of Turkish Immigrants.

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Floris Vermeulen

Floris Vermeulen is assistant professor at the department of political science and co-director of the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES) both at the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on different themes, such as civic and political participation of immigrants on the local level, looking at, among other things. the development of populations of immigrant organizations.

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Ismintha Waldring

My name is Ismintha Waldring. I was born in Surinam but have spent my life in the Netherlands since I was 2 years old. I went to primary and secondary school in Amsterdam and studied Social and Organizational Psychology at the University of Leiden. My Master research was on diversity management and intercultural communication within the Dutch Police Force.

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Ali Konyali

Ali Konyali has joined the Sociology Department of the Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) in February 2012 as a PhD candidate within the framework of the ELITES-project. His research focuses on the emergence of Turkish second generation elites within the corporate business sector in Western Europe.

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Sara Rezai

Sara Rezai (1976) is one of the three Dutch PhD Candidates. Before that she studied Cultural Anthropology at the University of Utrecht with a main focus on Multiculturalism. She did her Master’s thesis on the ethnic identity formation of the Turkmen as one of the minorities in Iran. For this she did ethnographic fieldwork in Iran, the country she is originally from.

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