Handbook on Migration and Cities by Els de Graauw, Jan Rath, and Ceren Kulkul Akyunak Cheltenham: Edward Elgar The publication is Open Access and can therefore be downloaded free of charge. Coming out soon (January 2027) Notify me when the book is available Cities and migration shape one another in profound ways, yet migration studies [...]

Substack 'Futures of Difference'Why Social Categories Resist Prediction Short Jan Rath on the limits of prediction, the reality of assimilation, and the primacy of class 10 september 2026 What if social scientists simply cannot predict the future of social difference? Sociologist Jan Rath offers a bracing corrective to academic future-gazing, arguing that societies are far [...]

Hoofdstuk -- Geleerde Dingen voor de Mensen. Sociologie tussen onderzoek en beleid Jan Rath in Jack Burgers, Rene Gabriëls en Erik Snel (red), Een Socioloog die ertoe doet. Liber Amicorum voor Godfried Engbersen. Rotterdam: Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Erasmus School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2025, pp. 131-142. Sociologen hebben een eigen agenda, een eigen stijl [...]

Regulation of Migrant Entrepreneurship Giacomo Solano, Monder Ram & Jan Rath (Eds) International Migration April 2023, 61(2): 1-122 We are struck by a curious paradox: the flourishing discourse on migrant entrepreneurship is replete with references to the regulatory environment; yet the precise ways in which regulations exert influence is rarely spelt out. This task is [...]

Dialoog Stad en Land 'Oost-Groningen heeft 'veel gemeen met Rotterdam-Zuid' met Bettine Bock en Jan Rath pp. 309-320 In Raadselen van de maatschappij worden de opbrengsten van honderd jaar sociologie in Nederland onder de loep genomen. De auteurs, allemaal Nederlandse sociologen van verschillende generaties en diverse universiteiten en instituten, werd gevraagd naar de oogst van hun  [...]

BROAD-ER: Bridging Migration and Urban Studies  The research project BROAD-ER: Bridging Migration and Urban Studies received 1.4M € from the European Commission Twinning Action fund (HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03). Jan Rath is one of the Principal Investigators. Next to him,  one new postdoc researcher has been appointed at the University of Amsterdam: Norma Schemschat. The other PI's are Ahmet Içduygu, Director [...]

Understanding Migration: Metropolis Project Jan Rath. Paul Spoonley and Mihaela Vieru IQ Konkret. Journal on Migration and Labour Market, 2: 40-43. The aim of Metropolis International is to enhance policy through empirical research and to support societies and organizations that are managing the many effects of migration and diversity > Reprinted as ‘Migration verstehen’,  IQ [...]

Lodewijk Brunt: Flaneur in toga Frank Bovenkerk en Jan Rath 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 [...]