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Completed PhD projects

• Merve Aygün, University of Amsterdam (2025) Middle-Class Lifestyles in Istanbul. Class, Politics, and Religion
• Sebastián Ibarra González, University of Amsterdam (2024) Urban Struggles in Santiago. Place-based claims and resistances to neoliberal urbanism
• Fenna Smits, University of Amsterdam (2023) Infrastructuring common worlds. How decentralisation of public health and environmental protection infrastructures occurs in practice
• Indra Boedjarath, University of Amsterdam (2022) Culture and suicide. An exploration of the cultural factors involved in suicide
• Mert Kayhan, University of Amsterdam (2021) Civil-Military Relations in Turkey: A Critical Investigation in the Light of Mentalities
• Judith Zijlstra, University of Amsterdam (2021) Stay Close, Go Far: The Stepwise Migration of Iranian Students and Academics
• Sabrina Dinmohamed, University of Amsterdam (2021) Dominican flavours in a new context: Homemaking and food practices of Dominican immigrants
• Richard Girling, University of Amsterdam (2021) Studying ‘up’ in migrant entrepreneurship: Privileged migrant entrepreneurs in Wroclaw, Poland.
• Fenneke Wekker, University of Amsterdam (2020) Building Belonging. Affecting Feelings of Home through Community Building Interventions.
• Tanya Wijngaarde, University of Amsterdam (2019) Ufo's boven Suriname: De receptie van een amerikaanse mythologie
• Linda Zuijderwijk, Erasmus University Rotterdam (2019) Public space: Always under construction.
• Juan Francisco Alvarado Valenzuela, University of Amsterdam (2019) Something new, something used, something borrowed: Innovation of migrant entrepreneurs in the service sector. [Joint degree of the University of Amsterdam and the University of Milano]
• Döske van der Wilk, University of Amsterdam (2016) Van wie is het plein? Over de (on)toegankelijkheid van de openbare ruimte in een gentrificerende buurt te Amsterdam
• Yannis Tzaninis, University of Amsterdam (2016) Building Utopias on Sand. The production of space in Almere and the future of suburbia
• Giacomo Solano, University of Amsterdam and the University of Milano-Bicocca (Joint degree) (2016) Immigrant self-employment and transnational practices. The case of Moroccan entrepreneurs in Amsterdam and Milan
• Ayşen Üstübici, University of Amsterdam and Koç University (Joint PhD Degree) (2015) The Governance of International Migration in Turkey and Morocco: Irregular Migrants’ Access to Right to Stay
• Danielle Chevalier, University of Amsterdam. (2015) With honors (cum laude). The formalisation of social control in public space: the societal rise and juridical fall of bans on the use of soft drugs in local bye-laws in the Netherlands
• Aimee Kuvik, University of Amsterdam (2015) The Global Competition for Talent: Life Science and Biotech Careers, International Mobility, and Competitiveness
• Marieke Slootman, University of Amsterdam (2014) With honors (cum laude). Soulmates. Reinvention of Ethnic Identification among Higher Educated Second Generation Moroccan and Turkish Dutch
• Leen Sterckx, University of Amsterdam (2014) Trouwen met een Vreemdeling. Afstand en Nabijheid in de Relaties van ‘Turken’ en ‘Marokkanen’ in een Gemengd Huwelijk
• Volkan Aytar, University of Amsterdam (2014) Entertainment and Leisure Consumption in Istanbul
• Emma Folmer, University of Amsterdam (2014) From Shop Fronts to Home Offices. Entrepreneurship and Small Business Dynamics in Urban Residential Neighborhoods
• Elsa Casimiro, University of Amsterdam (2014) Cape Verdeans in Cova da Moura, Portugal: An ethno-historical account of their destinies and legacies
• Elif Keskiner, University of Amsterdam (2013) Generation in Transition. Youth Transitions Among native-Born Descendants of Immigrants from Turkey
• Manolis Pratsinakis, University of Amsterdam (2013) Contesting National Belonging. An Established-Outsider Figuration on the Margins of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Simone Boogaarts-De Bruin, University of Amsterdam (2011) Something for Everyone? Changes and Choices in the Ethno-Party Scene in Urban Nightlife
• Sjoukje Botman, University of Amsterdam (2011) Gewoon Schoonmaken: De Troebele Arbeidsrelaties in Betaald huishoudelijk Werk
• Surrendra Santokhi, University of Amsterdam (2010) Immigrantenondernemerschap in Den Haag: Beleid en Praktijk
• Jan van de Beek, University of Amsterdam (2010) Kennis, Macht en Moraal: De productie van wetenschappelijke kennis over de economische gevolgen van migratie naar Nederland, 1960-2005
• Stephan Raes, University of Amsterdam (2000) Migrating enterprise and migrant entrepreneurship. How fashion and migration have changed the spatial organisation of clothing supply to consumers in the Netherlands