Biography
**Roxy Damen is a post doctoral researcher at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.**
After completing a bachelor in Cultural Anthropology (VU University) and the research master Migration, Ethnic Relations and Multiculturalism (University of Utrecht), Roxy started her PhD research at EUR in 2018. Her dissertation (Rooting in new soil) is about early integration processes among recently arrived refugees in the Netherlands (with a residence permit) and focusses mainly on Syrian permit holders as they form the largest group of recent arrivals. More specifically, early integration is studied as a multi-perspectival, multi-dimensional and multi-directional process in this disseration, combining both quantitative and qualitative methods. In september 2022, Roxy started her postodc position at EUR, evaluating the new civic integration law in Rotterdam.
Research interests: immigrant and refugee integration, civic integration policy, intergroup relations, interethnic contacts.
Onderzoeksinteresses: integratie van migranten en vluchtelingen, inburgeringsbeleid, relaties tussen groepen en interetnische contacten.
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Researcher | Policy, Politics and Society
- damen@essb.eur.nl
- Room
- T15-53
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
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Work
- Roxy Damen, Jaco Dagevos & Willem Huijnk (2024) - Feeling at Home?: A Dynamic Analysis of the Impact of Discrimination, Refugee-Specific, and Participation Characteristics on Recently Arrived Refugees’ Belonging - Journal of International Migration and Integration - doi: 10.1007/s12134-024-01135-y - [link]
- Roxy Damen (2024) - Behoefte aan kaders bij duale inburgeringstrajecten - [link]
- Jaco Dagevos, Roxy Damen, Linda Bakker, Dave Bruggeling, Alex Hekelaar, Frans Moors & Anita Watzeels (2023) - Lost de nieuwe inburgeringswet de hoge verwachtingen in? - [link]
- Roxy Damen, Alex Hekelaar, Jaco Dagevos, Dave Bruggeling, Frans Moors, Anita Watzeels & L (Linda) Bakker (2023) - Van start met het nieuwe inburgeringsbeleid in Rotterdam
- Willem Huijnk & Roxy Damen (2023) - Seksuele en genderdiversiteit: een overzicht van de Nederlandse regenboog. - Demos: bulletin over bevolking en samenleving, 39 (3), 4-7 - [link]
- Roxy Damen, Willem Huijnk & Jaco Dagevos (2023) - Explaining recently arrived refugees' labor market participation: The role of policy characteristics among Syrians in the Netherlands - Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 4 (52) - doi: 10.3389/fhumd.2022.1028017 - [link]
- Roxy Damen (2022) - Rooting in new soil: Explaining differences and developments in early integration processes among Syrian refugees in the Netherlands
- Roxy Damen, Willem Huijnk & Jaco Dagevos (2022) - Socio-cultural starting positions among recently arrived Syrian refugees in the Netherlands: A latent class analysis - International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 87, 72-84 - doi: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2022.01.009 - [link]
- Roxy Damen, Meta van der Linden, Jaco Dagevos & Willem Huijnk (2022) - About but not without: Recently arrived refugees’ understanding of and expectations for integration within a local policy context in the Netherlands - Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies - doi: 10.1080/15562948.2021.2023720 - [link]
- Willem Huijnk, Roxy Damen & Lonneke van Kampen (2022) - LHBT Monitor 2022. De leefsituatie van lesbische, homoseksuele, biseksuele en transgender personen in Nederland.
- Roxy Damen & Tobias Stark (2021) - Personality and interethnic relationships:: How the Big-Five personality traits affect friendly and unfriendly interethnic relationships among secondary school students - doi: 10.52305/ijvy4250 - [link]
- Roxy Damen, Jaco Dagevos & W Huijnk (2021) - Opvang biedt asielmigranten meer mogelijkheden om tijd zinvol te besteden - [link]
- Roxy Damen, Jaco Dagevos & W Huijnk (2021) - Refugee reception re-examined: A quantitative study on the impact of the reception period for mental health and host country language proficiency among Syrian refugees in the Netherlands - Journal of International Migration and Integration, 23 (1), 1-21 - doi: 10.1007/s12134-021-00820-6 - [link]
- Roxy Damen, B Martinovi? & TH Stark (2021) - Explaining the relationship between socio-economic status and interethnic friendships: The mediating role of preferences, opportunities, and third parties - International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 80, 40-50 - doi: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2020.11.005 - [link]
- Roxy Damen, W Huijnk & Maja Djundeva (2021) - Wat werkt? Over de invloed van beleid op de start van de arbeidsloopbaan van Syrische statushouders - [link]
- Roxy Damen & W Huijnk (2020) - Religie - [link]
- Roxy Damen & W Huijnk (2020) - Sociale contacten - [link]
- Roxy Damen & W Huijnk (2020) - Waardenoriëntaties - [link]
- Jaco Dagevos, EM Miltenburg, W Huijnk & Roxy Damen (2019) - Verschillen tussen Syrische statushouders: Integratie op maat nodig. - [link]
- Roxy Damen (2019) - Refugee reception re-examined: A quantitative study on the impact of the reception period for early integration among recently arrived Syrian refugees in the Netherlands.
- Roxy Damen (2019) - Socio-cultural positions of recently arrived Syrian refugees in the Netherlands: A typology and underlying relations.
- Roxy Damen (2019) - Socio-cultural positions of recently arrived Syrian refugees in the Netherlands: A typology and underlying relations.
- Roxy Damen (2018) - Socio-cultural positions of recently arrived Syrian refugees in the Netherlands: A typology and underlying relations.
- Roxy Damen (2018) - Socio-cultural positions of recently arrived Syrian refugees in the Netherlands: preiliminary results.
