January 30, 2025
Podcast - BROAD-ER Experiences
Interview with Jan Rath and Robert Kloosterman (Khaled Ibrahim, Interviewer; season 1, episode 9) BROAD-ER, Koç University, Istanbul, January 2025 This special installment of BROAD-ER Experiences is a double feature! I am very honored to host two esteemed guests: Dr. , Professor Emeritus of Urban Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, and Dr. , Professor [...]
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January 29, 2025
BROAD-ER International Conference 2025 – Istanbul
BROAD-ER International Conference Urban Spaces, Migrant Lives: Bridging Disciplinary Boundaries September 24-26, 2025 in Istanbul To submit your abstract and author details, please complete this form. You are welcome to register, and join the conference. We are delighted to invite papers from scholars and researchers from the fields of migration and urban studies to participate [...]
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April 19, 2024
Artikel -- Sociale menging in kwetsbare wijken
Kwetsbare wijken hebben niets aan kunstmatige sociale menging door Gijs Custers (EUR), Gideon Bolt i(UU), Wouter van Gent (UvA), Cody Hochstenbach (UvA), Reinout Kleinhans (TU Delft), Sander van Lanen (RUG), Ilse van Liempt (UU), Jaap Nieuwenhuis i(RUG), Jan Rath (UvA), en Agata Troost (RUG). Sociale Vraagstukken, 10 april 2024 Van bovenaf opgelegde sociale menging waarbij [...]
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March 24, 2023
Special issue -- Regulation of Migrant Entrepreneurship
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 [...]
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December 2, 2022
Dialoog Stad en Land - 100 Jaar Sociologie
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  [...]
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December 2, 2022
EU Horizon Twinning Project -- BROAD-ER
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 [...]
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August 16, 2022
Article -- Understanding Migration: Metropolis
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 [...]
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June 24, 2022
Article -- Lodewijk Brunt: Flaneur in Toga
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 [...]
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March 4, 2022
Interview -- 'A marketplace of ideas and thoughts'
'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 [...]
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December 14, 2021
Article -- 60 years migration scholarship
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 [...]
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