Professor Emeritus of Sociology in the University of Amsterdam (UvA). 

He has been a researcher at the Center for Urban Studies and the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES) of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) in the University of Amsterdam. 

He was full Professor of Sociology ('especially the Study of Cities and their Ethnic and Cultural Diversity') at the University of Amsterdam, holder of the Prof. J.A.A. van Doorn Chair at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), a Research Fellow at the Migration Research Center (MiReKoc) at Koç University, Istanbul, an Associate of the World Economic Forum, a Member of the Advisory Board of the Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS) within the University of Oxford, and an Advisor of a wide array of local, national and supranational governmental organizations and civic society institutions, including the European Commission (notably DG Enterprise and Industry), the OECD, the OSCE, and the United Nations (notably the IOM, UNHCR, UNCTAD, and the Population Division). He continues to serve as the Chair of Metropolis International.

Here, he has collected all of his works, mainly academic, but also other works of interest. You are welcome to browse the website. If you have any questions, ideas or suggestions, please feel free to contact him by email.

In April 2023, Jan Rath gave his valedictory speech (to be downloaded here).

However, he continues working on cities and migration, and keeps working as a member of the BROAD-ER consortium in which the University of Amsterdam is collaborating with the Migration Research Center (MiReKoc) at Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey, and the Interdisciplinary Research Group on Immigration (GRITIM) at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Catalonia. 

Next to that, he stays on as a managing editor of the International Migration journal, and as a Chair of Metropolis International. 

As for the latter, Jan Rath, who has been a Chair of Metropolis International since 2009, indicated that he would step down from this position at this year’s Metropolis International conference in Kuala Lumpur (November 14-17, 2024). Professor Anna Triandafyllidou from the Toronto Metropolitan University in Canada will then succeed him.