
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
- vancampenhout@eshcc.eur.nl
Profile
**Gijs van Campenhout is a PhD candidate at the Department of History. His PhD research is part of the Research Excellence Initiative (REI) Project ‘History, Sport and the Nation’ (Project leader Dr Gijsbert Oonk). **
Gijs focuses on the history of ‘nationality transfers’ of football players in the context of elite migration, changing nationality and ‘complex citizenship’ issues. He examines the emergence of ‘naturalized’ football players – representing the nation – in the FIFA World Cups (1930-2014) emphasizing how ideas, institutions, and the political and cultural context in this ‘global battle for talent’ have changed over time. His supervisors are Dr Gijsbert Oonk and Dr Jacco van Sterkenburg.
Gijs holds a Research Master’s degree in Regional Studies (2011) from the Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, and an Educational Master’s degree for Pre-Higher Education Teaching in Geography (2012) from the Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Groningen. For his Research Master thesis, Gijs focused on place making activities by and (local and national) identity formation of rugby players at their New Zealand rugby club. In a revised form, the thesis is published (in 2014) as an article in the journal ‘Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography'.
- Gijs van Campenhout (2022) - A team of national representatives?: A history of the football World Cup, c. 1930-2018
- Gijs van Campenhout & H van Houtum (2021) - ‘I am German when we win, but I am an immigrant when we lose’. Theorising on the deservedness of migrants in international football, using the case of Mesut Özil - Sport in Society, 24 (11), 1-17 - doi: 10.1080/17430437.2020.1865314 - [link]
- Gijs van Campenhout & Joost Jansen (2021) - Foreign-born sportspeople in the Olympics and the Football World Cup: migration, citizenship and nationhood
- Gijs van Campenhout & Jacco van Sterkenburg (2020) - The diversification of national football teams - International Review for the Sociology of Sport - doi: 10.1177/1012690219892849
- Gijs van Campenhout & Jacco van Sterkenburg (2019) - The diversification of national football teams: Using the idea of migration corridors - International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 56 (1), 36-61 - doi: 10.1177/10126902221088124
- Gijs van Campenhout, Jacco van Sterkenburg & Gijsbert Oonk (2019) - Has the World Cup become more migratory? A comparative history of foreign-born players in national football teams, c. 1930-2018. (accepted for publication) - Comparative Migration Studies, 7 (22) - doi: 10.1186/s40878-019-0118-6 - [link]
- Gijs van Campenhout, Jacco van Sterkenburg & Gijsbert Oonk (2019) - Who counts as a migrant footballer? A critical reflection and alternative approach to migrant football players in national tems at the FIFA World Cup 1930-2018 - The International Journal of the History of Sport, 35, 1071-1090 - doi: 10.1080/09523367.2019.1581769 - [link]
- Gijs van Campenhout (2018) - Surinamese Lions. Dutch newspaper representations on football players of Surinamese descent in Oranje, c. 1974-2018 - [link]
- Gijs van Campenhout (2018) - De paradoxaliteit van de nationale trots - [link]
- Gijs van Campenhout (2018) - By Who and How is the Nation Represented? Media Representations of Migrant Footballers in the Dutch National Football Team at the FIFA World Cup, c. 1930-2018
- Gijs Campenhout (19 juni 2018) - Het meest multi culturele WK ooit
- Gijsbert Oonk & Gijs Campenhout (14 juni 2018) - Meer voetbalmigranten dan ooit tijdens WK
- Gijsbert Oonk & Gijs Campenhout (14 juni 2018) - Op dit WK is 13 procent voetballers geboren noch getogen in land waarvoor ze spelen – hoe kan dat?
- Gijsbert Oonk & Gijs Campenhout (8 juni 2018) - Het Marokkaanse voetbalelftal; hoe de loyaliteit van de Leeuwen van de Atlas van twee kanten
- Gijs Campenhout (1 januari 2017) - Bijdrage aan 'de Bosatlas van het Nederlandse Voetbal'
- Gijs Campenhout (2020) - How 'Oranje' Diversified. Changing perceptions on diversity in media through studying the processes of meaning giving to a diversifying Dutch national football team (1960-2020)
- Gijs Campenhout (2020) - PasSport Nationalism. Who Deserves to Represent the Nation in International Football?
- Gijs Campenhout (2019) - Has the FIFA World Cup become more migratory? A history of foreign-born players in national football teams, c. 1930-2018
- Gijs Campenhout (2018) - Who can represent the country? Multiple nationalities and citizenship issues in international sports events
- Gijs Campenhout (2018) - Who can represent the country? Multiple nationalities and citizenship issues in international sports events
- Gijs Campenhout (2018) - A Different History of the FIFA World Cup. Why ‘we’ are nevertheless represented at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia