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, and a Research Fellow at the Migration Research Center (MiReKoc) at Koç University, Istanbul. 

He was 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).

He continues working on cities and migration, and is 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. 

He is also active as a managing editor of the International Migration journal, and as a Chair of Metropolis International.