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Saskia Bonjour, Evelyn Ersanili and Darshan Vigneswaran have teamed up to launch a new journal on Migration Politics.
Institutional racism and academia
24 Jun 2020
The killing of George Floyd has prompted renewed focus on institutional racism around the world, including in the Netherlands. However, not everybody agrees on what institutional racism is, how it operates and how we ...
Anthropologists about Life after Corona
16 Apr 2020
Anthropologists Danny de Vries, Jeanette Pols and Willy Sier have received funding for new research and data collection during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Amade M'charek awarded the Emma Goldman Award
24 Feb 2020
Amade M'charek has been awarded the Emma Goldman Award; the award is a recognition for scientific research on inequalities combined with public outreach.
New grant for research: Protecting Migrants Against Violence
13 Jan 2020
The Swedish Research Council has awarded a second major grant for collaborative research on migration between the Universities of Gothenburg and Amsterdam. This new grant will support Anja Karlsson Franck ...
The happiness of European Muslims post-9/11
11 Oct 2018
Aslan Zorlu (University of Amsterdam) and Paul Frijters (London School of Economics) conducted research into the happiness of European Muslims in the years since the attacks on 11 September 2001. They found a ...
Towards an alternative migration policy
19 Jul 2018
Migration and refugee issues are on political and public agendas around the globe. The European Union is looking for sustainable solutions, international cooperation and joint responsibility. An international ...
Summer School "Cultures, Migrations, Borders"
21 Mar 2018
The Department of Social Anthropology and History of the University of the Aegean and the Institute of Migration and Ethnic Studies of the University of Amsterdam welcome applications for the Seventh International ...
Trade Unions and Migrant Workers: New Contexts and Challenges in Europe
18 Jan 2018
This timely book analyses the relationship between trade unions, immigration and migrant workers across eleven European countries in the period between the 1990s and 2015.
Four UvA researchers receive ERC Starting Grants
16 Jul 2013
Anthropologists Rivke Jaffe and Barak Kalir and astronomers Saskia Hekker and Jason Hessels are to receive Starting Grants from the European Research Council (ERC). The grants open the way for the recipients to ...
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