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 […]

Academisch Nederland, hélp Turkse collega’s Door Erdogans zuiveringsslag dreigt er een generatie academici verloren te gaan in Turkije, waarschuwen Jan Rath en Froukje Santing De academische vrijheid in Turkije staat ernstig onder druk. In het afgelopen jaar zijn duizenden wetenschappers ontslagen, geschorst, gearresteerd, of hun contract werd niet verlengd. De zuiveringsslag werd begin 2016 ingezet […]