Save the date Jan Rath zal op donderdag 13 april 2023 om 16:30 zijn afscheidsrede uitspreken. De plechtigheid zal plaatsvinden in de Aula van de Universiteit van Amsterdam, Oude Lutherse Kerk, Singel 411, Amsterdam.   Meer informatie volgt.

Frank Bovenkerk en Jan Rath Lodewijk Brunt: Flaneur in toga 2022 Er is al een tijdje niks verschenen op de blog van onze vader Lo die in 2020 uit ons leven verdween. Dat vinden wij soms zonde van zo’n omvangrijk en divers document. Lodewijk’s oude studievriend en collega Frank Bovenkerk heeft samen met Jan Rath [...]

'Born and raised in the southern part of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, in a poor and deprivileged neighbourhood Jan Rath studied anthropology and urban studies and eventually became a professor of urban sociology at the University of Amsterdam. He still holds this position today, while he is also affiliated with Erasmus University Rotterdam and Koç University [...]

Progress of migration scholarship over 60 years of International Migration by İçduygu, A., J. Rath, D. Sert and A. Üstübici (2021) International Migration, 59(6): 3-7 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12934 A posting on Facebook earlier this year –showcasing the 60th anniversary logo of International Migration –elicited one viewer to exclaim: ‘Congrats on 60 years of migration scholarship!’ Such [...]

Emeritus hoogleraar stadssociologie en ex-decaan van de toenmalige Faculteit der Politieke en Sociaal-Culturele Wetenschappen (PSCW) Lodewijk N.J. Brunt (1942) is op 17 oktober 2020 overleden. Op zaterdag 17 oktober 2020 overleed Lodewijk (‘Lo’) Brunt op 78-jarige leeftijd in zijn woonplaats Amsterdam. Van 1988 tot zijn emeritaat in 2005 was hij hoogleraar ‘Sociologie, in het bijzonder [...]

Emeritus hoogleraar stadssociologie en ex-decaan van de toenmalige Faculteit der Politieke en Sociaal-Culturele Wetenschappen (PSCW) Lodewijk N.J. Brunt (1942) is op 17 oktober 2020 overleden. Op zaterdag 17 oktober 2020 overleed Lodewijk (‘Lo’) Brunt op 78-jarige leeftijd in zijn woonplaats Amsterdam. Van 1988 tot zijn emeritaat in 2005 was hij hoogleraar ‘Sociologie, in het bijzonder [...]

Sociology at the University of Amsterdam has climbed to the 10th position in the 2020 QS World University Ranking. A testimony to the great work done at our department. https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2020/sociology See also https://www.uva.nl/en/about-the-uva/organisation/faculties/faculty-of-social-and-behavioural-sciences/disciplines/sociology/sociology.html

We -- Ahmet İçduygu, Jan Rath, Deniz Sert, and Ayşen Üstübici -- are delighted and honoured to take on the role as editors of International Migration in its fifty-ninth year. As new stewards of the journal, we aim to support meticulous scholarship in the field, while also promoting new and understudied lines of inquiry that [...]

We -- Ahmet İçduygu, Jan Rath, Deniz Sert, and Ayşen Üstübici -- are delighted and honoured to take on the role as editors of International Migration in its fifty-ninth year. As new stewards of the journal, we aim to support meticulous scholarship in the field, while also promoting new and understudied lines of inquiry that [...]

Kloosterman, R.C. and J. Rath (2018) ‘Mixed Embeddedness Revisited: A Conclusion to the Symposium’, Symposium From the Mixed Embeddedness Approach to What? edited by E. Barberis and G. Solano, Sociologica, 12(2): 103-114. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/8625 The mixed embeddedness approach, more than many other approaches, aims at exploring this complex phenomenon of migrant entrepreneurship. It offers a basic […]