Biography
Peter Scholten is full professor in the Governance of Migration and Diversity in the team Policy, Politics and Society. Peter is scientific director of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus research centre on the Governance of Migration and Diversity, team lead of the team Policy, Politics and Society, and editor-in-chief of the journal Comparative Migration Studies. In addition, he is Leiden-Delft-Erasmus (LDE) double professor at Leiden University (department of global affairs), and Malmo city visiting professor at the Institute for Migration, Integration and Welfare at Malmo University. His main research interests involve the dynamics of migration and diversity policies, cities of migration, science-politics relations on migration and diversity, and complexity governance.
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Full professor | Policy, Politics and Society
- p.scholten@essb.eur.nl
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Work
- Peter Scholten (2025) - De Migratie-Obsessie: Hoe één thema het debat blijft bepalen - [link]
- Peter Scholten & Maria Schiller (2025) - Why the governance of Superdiversity so often derails: A complexity perspective - Ethnic and Racial Studies, 48 (9), 1789-1803 - doi: 10.1080/01419870.2025.2461254
- Paul van de Laar & Peter Scholten (2023) - De Echte Rotterdammer komt van buiten.: Rotterdam migratiestad 1600-2022 - [link]
- Peter W.A. Scholten (9 November 2024) - Waarom Nederland lijdt aan een migratieobsessie.
- Peter W.A. Scholten (16 May 2024) - HUMAN Rewind - item over beeldvorming rond asielbeleid
- Peter W.A. Scholten (19 January 2024) - Interview with NRC on refugee policy
- Peter W.A. Scholten (15 January 2024) - Interview with ESS Magazine
- Peter W.A. Scholten (14 November 2023) - Contribution to Senate hearing on Spreidingswet
- Peter Scholten (2020) - The consequences of the new EU pact for Mediterranean migration governance (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Peter Scholten (2020) - Why does the governance of migration and migration –related diversities appear to be in constant crisis mode (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Peter Scholten (2020) - Higher education in superdiverse settings (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Peter Scholten (2020) - Mainstreaming versus alienation in migration governance (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Peter Scholten (2020) - Superdiversity as a governance challenge (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Peter Scholten (2020) - The coming of age of migration studies (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Peter Scholten (2020) - LDE Center on the Governance of Migration and Diversity (External organisation) (Member)
Activity: Membership of committee › Academic - Peter Scholten (2020) - UNIC (External organisation) (Member)
Activity: Membership of committee › Academic - Peter Scholten (2019) - De Echte Rotterdammer komt van buiten (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Peter Scholten (2019) - Bringing migration studies under one roof: Crossmigration (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic
- PWA (Peter) Scholten (2016) - Best PhD supervisor award
Erasmus Honours Program
- Start date approval
- September 2022
- End date approval
- September 2025
- Place
- ROTTERDAM
- Description
- Leveren bijdrage Erasmus Honours Program
Universiteit Leiden
- Start date approval
- September 2022
- End date approval
- September 2025
- Place
- DEN HAAG
- Description
- LDE Dubbelbenoeming hoogleraar GMD
MInisterie van Sociale Zaken
- Start date approval
- October 2024
- End date approval
- October 2027
- Place
- DEN HAAG
- Description
- Voorzitter evaluatiecommissie KIS (Kennisinstituut
1.7C Public Policy
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FSWSB-1051
4.2 Politics of Migration and Diversity
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FSWGMD0027
4.2 Public Policy
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ESSB-BM1020
4.4 Thesis Research
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FSWGMD0020
4.1C Comparative Public Policy
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FSWBM-4191
1.4C Public Policy
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ESSB-SBC1081
Malmo City Guest Professor at the Malmo Institute for Migration Studies, Malmo University
- Start date approval
- January 2024
- End date approval
- January 2026
