| My
vita |
Prof. Dr. Jan Rath received
his MA degree in cultural anthropology and urban studies and his
PhD from Utrecht University. He is now Professor of Urban
Sociology,
Head of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at
the
University of Amsterdam, and Director of the Institute for Migration and Ethnic
Studies (IMES). He is,
moreover, involved in
the IMISCOE
Research Network, and
European ISC
Co-Chair of the
International Metropolis Project.
He has
been active in various other disciplines, such as political
science, sociology of law, economics and economic sociology. He
previously held academic posts at the Center for the Study of
Social Conflicts (COMT) in Leiden University, the Center for the
Study of Multi-Ethnic Society (SMES) in Utrecht University, the
Institute for the Sociology of Law in the Catholic University of
Nijmegen, and the Department of Sociology in the University of
California at Los Angeles (UCLA).
He has done research on a wide array of topics including
(electoral) political mobilization; trade unions; integration
policy; the political and theoretical foundations of social
science; racism; school segregation; spatial segregation; popular
culture; Islam; the informal economy; immigrant entrepreneurship;
urban tourism; public space; etcetera.
He is particularly interested in the ways in which cities in a
globalizing world help shape unity and diversity. His research
focuses on the interrelationship of city dwellers and the urban opportunity
structure as well as the
political, economic and symbolic dimensions of this
interrelationship.
He has been an advisor of the Dutch local and national
governments, the European Commission, the OECD, the United
Nations, and various other organizations.
He is involved in various research
projects. He is author of numerous
articles,
book chapters, books and reports on the sociology, politics
and economics of post-migratory processes. He was the founding and managing editor of the
Dutch quarterly journal Migrantenstudies
(until 2002),was editor of the Netherlands'
Journal of Social Sciences, and is currently editor of the International
Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, advisory editor of the
International
Migration Review (IMR), associate editor of the Journal of International Migration and Integration
(JIMI), and editor of the Solidarity and Identity Series of the Amsterdam
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| Previous
academic positions |
1 July 1982 - 1 June 1986,
Centre for the Study of Social Conflicts (COMT), Faculty of Social Sciences, University of
Leiden. Research Assistant.
1 June 1986 - 1 January 1991, Department of Cultural
Anthropology, section Study of Multi-Ethnic Society (SMES), Faculty of Social Sciences,
University of Utrecht. Research Fellow.
1 March 1990 - 1 February 1994, Institute for Sociology of Law,
Faculty of Law, Catholic University Nijmegen. Post-Doc.
1 February 1994 - 1 February 2000, Institute for Migration and
Ethnic Studies, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Amsterdam. Senior
Researcher.
September 1998 - January 1999, Department of Sociology,
University of California - Los Angeles. Visiting Scholar.
1 February 2000 - 1 September 2005, Institute for Migration and Ethnic
Studies, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Amsterdam. Associate
Professor (uhd) and Co-Director.
1 October 2005 to date, Institute for Migration and Ethnic
Studies, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Amsterdam.
Professor of Sociology ("in particular the academic study of
cities and their ethnic and cultural diversity") and Academic Director.
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| Publications |
Overview
Bookzone
Racism
Islam/Muslims
General issues
Immigrant education
Miscellaneous issues
Migration/ethnic studies
Immigrant entrepreneurship
Immigrant political participation
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| Editorial
Positions |
Migrantenstudies
(General multi-disciplinary journal of migration and ethnic studies in the Netherlands).
Founding and managing editor
Netherlands' Journal of Social
Sciences. Editor
Amsterdam
University Press
Series on Multiculturalism and Social Cohesion. Editor
International
Migration Review. Advisory Editor
International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research. Editor
Journal of International Migration and Integration (JIMI).
Associate Editor
Amsterdam
University Press. Editor of the Solidarity and Identity Series
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| Degrees |
BA Social-Cultural Sciences, Utrecht University
(1977-1981). Major in cultural anthropology, minors in sociology,
political sociology and mass communication (examination July
1981).
MA Social-Cultural Sciences, Utrecht University,
(1984-1986). Major in cultural anthropology, minors in urban
studies (in particular ethnic relations), mass communication and
political science (examination January 1986).
PhD obtained on September 13, 1991, from Utrecht University,
the Netherlands, with dissertation titled: Minorisation:
The Social Construction of 'Ethnic Minorities'. Thesis
supervisors: prof F. Bovenkerk (Faculty of Law) and prof H.
Hoetink (Faculty of Social Sciences).
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