Biography
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Godfried Engbersen is an emProfessor of Sociology.
He is an elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences (KNAW) and an elected member of the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR).
Before, he worked at the universities of Leiden (Ph.D. University of Leiden, 1990), Amsterdam and Utrecht, and as a visiting professor at the Centre of Western European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley (spring 1996).
His research programme focuses on social inequality and international migration. In 2012, together with Erik Snel, he founded the knowledge lab for ‘Liveable neighbourhoods’ [Leefbare wijken]: a partnership between the city of Rotterdam and Erasmus University where local knowledge is produced and exchanged.
You can view Godfried Engbersen's Google Scholar profile here.
For more information about his work visit his personal website.
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
- engbersen@essb.eur.nl
More information
Work
- Julia Reinold & Godfried Engbersen (2025) - Link4Skills Migrant Survey Handbook v2.0 - [link]
- Erik Snel, Godfried Engbersen & Jan de Boom (2025) - De cumulatie van nadelige maatschappelijke gevolgen van de coronapandemie - Mens en Maatschappij, 100 (3), 298-324 - doi: 10.5117/MEM2025.3.004.SNEL - [link]
- Rianne Dekker, Godfried Engbersen, Erik Snel & Jan de Boom (2025) - The effect of institutional trust on the relationship between social media as an information resource and policy non-compliance: Dutch survey evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic - International Review of Administrative Sciences, 91 (2), 259-274 - doi: 10.1177/00208523241306410 - [link]
- Godfried Engbersen (2025) - De ontdekking van de samenleving: Over het plezier van de sociologie
- Guusje Enneking, Gijs Custers & Godfried Engbersen (2025) - The rapid rise of social infrastructure: Mapping the concept through a systematic scoping review - Cities, 158 - doi: 10.1016/j.cities.2024.105608
- Godfried Engbersen & Dennis Broeders (2025) - Immigration control and strategies of irregular immigrants: From light to thick fog - doi: 10.4324/9781003695776_ch08 - [link]
- Godfried Engbersen (2025) - Labour Migration from Central and Eastern Europe and the Implications for Integration Policy - doi: 10.4324/9781003699149-6 - [link]
- Godfried Engbersen & Erik Snel (2025) - Liquid migration: Dynamic and fluid patterns of post-accession migration flows - doi: 10.1515/9789048515493-002 - [link]
- Anna Triandafyllidou, Homayoun Shirazi & Godfried Engbersen (2024) - Migration Skill Corridors - [link]
- Erik Snel, Godfried Engbersen, Peter G.M. van der Heijden, Hanne Oberman & Jan de Boom (2024) - Ongelijke verdeling van de sociale gevolgen van de coronapandemie - [link]
- Godfried Engbersen (2025) - De ontdekking van de samenleving. Over het plezier van de sociologie (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk › Academic - Godfried Engbersen (2013) - Europe's Arizona: On the Local Limits to Migration Control (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Godfried Engbersen (2013) - Rotterdam: City of Immigrants (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Godfried Engbersen (2013) - The Public Value of the Social Sciences (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Godfried Engbersen (2013) - The relevance and irrelevance of migration networks in understanding decreasing and expanding migration flows (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Godfried Engbersen (2013) - Arm Nederland (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Erik Snel, M 't Hart & Godfried Engbersen (2013) - Reactive Transnationalism: transnational involvement in the face of discrimination (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Godfried Engbersen (2013) - 'Het beste medicijn tegen armoede' (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Godfried Engbersen (2013) - Armoede in Nederland. Wat doen we ertegen? (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Godfried Engbersen (2013) - De publieke functie van de sociale wetenschappen (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic
- Godfried Bernard Maria Engbersen, J. Burgers, Gerda Rodenburg, Miranda Sentse, D. Van de Mheen & S. Severiens (2014) - Bridging the gap between science and practice: Vulnerable youth in major cities (EUR REI grant, 800k)
