Biography
I am an Associate Professor of Public Policy and Politics at the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Erasmus University Rotterdam. My research explores stratification and social inequality, with a particular focus on immigrants’ economic disadvantage and integration, public policy, and intergroup prejudice and discrimination.
Currently, I examine how individual resources and institutional contexts, at both national and local levels, interact to shape ethnic and gender inequalities in European labor markets. As part of this work, I investigate disparities in access to labor market policy measures and their implications for inequality. I also employ quasi-experimental designs to estimate the causal effects of specific policy interventions on the integration outcomes of recent immigrants in Europe.
At Erasmus University, I teach undergraduate and graduate courses on public policy, migration and integration, and social inequalities.
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Associate professor | Policy, Politics and Society
- kanas@essb.eur.nl
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Work
- Yuliya Kosyakova, Frank van Tubergen & Agnieszka Kanas (2025) - Determinants of Refugees’ Identification with Country of Origin and Host Country and Their Naturalization Intentions:: Evidence from Germany - Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies - doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2025.2514800
- Leone Verweij, Menno Fenger & Agnieszka Kanas (2024) - Waar een wil is, is nog geen weg
- Frank van Tubergen, Yuliya Kosyakova & Agnieszka Kanas (2023) - Religious responses to existential insecurity: Conflict intensity in the region of birth increases praying among refugees - Social Science Research, 113 - doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2023.102895 - [link]
- Agnieszka Kanas & Menno Fenger (2023) - Non-cognitive skills and immigrant-native inequalities in the labor market in Europe - Frontiers in Political Science, 5 - doi: 10.3389/fpos.2023.1091997 - [link]
- Agnieszka Kanas & Yuliya Kosyakova (2023) - Greater local supply of language courses improves refugees’ labor market integration - European Societies, 25 (1), 1-36 - doi: 10.1080/14616696.2022.2096915 - [link]
- Agnieszka Kanas & Menno Fenger (2023) - Noncognitive skills and immigrant-native inequalities in the labor market in Europe - Frontiers in Political Sciences - [link]
- Agnieszka Kanas, P Scheepers & C Sterkens (2022) - Ethno-religious identification and support for interreligious violence: A study of Muslim and Christian students in Indonesia and the Philippines - Politics and Religion, 15 (2), 344 - 373 - doi: 10.1017/s1755048321000146 - [link]
- Agnieszka Kanas & Katrin MĂĽller (2022) - De arbeidsmarktpositie van migrantenvrouwen in Europa: Het belang van religie en traditionele genderrollen - Mens en Maatschappij, 97 (4), 465-469 - doi: 10.5117/MEM2022.4.009.KANA
- Agnieszka Kanas, Yuliya Kosyakova & Ehsan Vallizadeh (2022) - Linguistic Enclaves, Sorting, and Language Skills of Immigrants - Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, 22 (4), 847-861 - doi: 10.1080/15562948.2022.2132572 - [link]
- Agnieszka Kanas & SM Steinmetz (2021) - Mind the gap: The role of family policies and the gender-egalitarian climate in shaping gender and ethnic labour market inequalities in Europe - Migration Studies, 9 (4), 1569-1589 - doi: 10.1093/migration/mnab035
- Agnieszka Kanas (2023) - Dutch Demography Day (Participant)
Activiteit: Attending an event › Academic - Agnieszka Kanas (2023) - ESPAnet 2023 (Participant)
Activiteit: Attending an event › Academic - Agnieszka Kanas (2023) - ESPAnet conference 2023 (Participant)
Activiteit: Attending an event › Academic - Agnieszka Kanas (2023) - Advisory committee for the LOCOV project (Consultant)
Activiteit: Consultancy › Professional - Agnieszka Kanas (2022) - Expert Workshop on Intra-EU Mobility (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk › Professional - Agnieszka Kanas (2022) - ESPAnet Conference 2022 (Participant)
Activiteit: Attending an event › Academic - Agnieszka Kanas (2022) - Frontiers in Political Science (Journal) (Reviewer)
Activiteit: Editorial work › Academic - AM (Agnieszka) Kanas (2022) - ECSR General Annual Conference Amsterdam (Participant)
Activiteit: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Agnieszka Kanas (2022) - 14th INAS Annual Conference (Participant)
Activiteit: Attending an event › Academic - Agnieszka Kanas (2022) - International PIAAC Research Conference (Participant)
Activiteit: Attending an event › Academic
Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek- en Datacentrum
- Start date approval
- januari 2024
- End date approval
- december 2026
- Place
- DEN HAGUE
- Description
- Advisory Committee
1.7C Public Policy
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FSWSB-1051
4.3 Internship Master Public Policy
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FSWBM-2250
4.2 Public Policy
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ESSB-BM1020
4.3 Master's thesis/Final Res. Proj. IMP
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FSWBM-4171
1.4C Public Policy
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- ESSB-SBC1081
3.1 Migration and Diversity
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FSWBMINMED
4.2 Governing Social Inequalities
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FSWS-931A
4.3 Thesis Master Public Policy
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FSWBM-2070
