Biography
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Prof. dr. Godfried Engbersen is Professor of Sociology at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is also the Research Director of the Sociology Department and Director of the interdisciplinary research group Citizenship, Migration & the City (CIMIC) at EUR.
Previously, he worked at the universities of Leiden, Amsterdam and Utrecht, and as visiting professor at the Centre of Western European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley (spring, 1996). He is the Dutch correspondent for the continuous Reporting System on Migration (SOPEMI) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW).
Prof. dr. Engbersen also was an elected member of the Dutch Advisory Commission on Alien Affairs (2001-2009) and member of the general board of the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research (ASSR). He chaired the KNAW committee on the Future of Dutch Sociology (2003-2006).
His current research activities focus on transnationalism and cosmopolitanism, migration systems, and labour mobility within the EU.
Visit his personal website for more information.
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
- engbersen@essb.eur.nl
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
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Work
- Gijs Custers, Marjolijn Das & Godfried Engbersen (2023) - Change or stability in educational inequalities?: Educational mobility and school effects in the context of a major urban policy - Urban Studies, 60 (14), 2852-2873 - doi: 10.1177/00420980231162774 - [link]
- Margriet Lenkens, Frank J. van Lenthe, Loïs Schenk, Miranda Sentse, Sabine Severiens, Godfried Engbersen & Gera E. Nagelhout (2023) - Experiential peer support and desistance from crime: a systematic realist literature review - Psychology, Crime and Law - doi: 10.1080/1068316X.2023.2203925 - [link]
- Gijs Custers & Godfried Engbersen (2022) - Linking social capital and organizational ties: How different types of neighborhood organizations broker resources for the urban poor - Journal of Urban Affairs - doi: 10.1080/07352166.2022.2137032 - [link]
- Erik Snel, Godfried Engbersen, Jan de Boom & Marianne van Bochove (2022) - Social capital as protection against the mental health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic - Frontiers in Sociology, 7 - doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2022.728541 - [link]
- Loïs Schenk, Miranda Sentse, Reshmi Marhe, Laura van Duin, Godfried Engbersen, Arne Popma & Sabine Severiens (2021) - The Longitudinal Interplay Between Social Network and Psychopathology in Multi-Problem Young Adult Men; Separating Within-and Between-Person Effects - Frontiers in Psychology, 12 - doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.727432 - [link]
- Margriet Lenkens, GE Nagelhout, Loïs Schenk, M Sentse, Sabine Severiens, Godfried Engbersen, L Dijkhof & Frank Lenthe (2021) - ‘I (really) know what you mean’. Mechanisms of experiential peer support for young people with criminal behavior: A qualitative study - Journal of Crime and Justice, 44 (5), 535-552 - doi: 10.1080/0735648X.2020.1848608 - [link]
- Roel Jennissen, MAP (Mark) Bovens & Godfried Engbersen (2021) - Clusteren op basis van cultuur: Etno-linguïstische indelingen van herkomstlanden als alternatieven voor westers/niet-westers in integratieonderzoek - [link]
- Godfried Engbersen, Marianne Van Bochove, Jan de Boom, Jet Bussemaker, Btissame el Farisi, Andre Krouwel, Jeroen van Lindert, Katja Rusinovic, Erik Snel, Laura van Heck, Hasse van der Veen & P van Wensveen (2021) - De laag-vertrouwensamenleving: De maatschappelijke impact van COVID-19 in Amsterdam, Den Haag, Rotterdam & Nederland, vijfde meting - [link]
- Godfried Engbersen (2021) - COVID-19 als contrastvloeistof: Over oude en nieuwe ongelijkheden en het ontstaan van een parallelle samenleving - [link]
- Loïs Schenk, Miranda Sentse, Margriet Lenkens, Gera E. Nagelhout, Godfried Engbersen & Sabine Severiens (2021) - Instrumental mentoring for young adults: A multi-method study - Journal of Adolescent Research, 36 (4), 398-424 - doi: 10.1177/0743558420979123 - [link]
- Godfried Engbersen (2013) - Europe's Arizona: On the Local Limits to Migration Control
- Godfried Engbersen (2013) - Rotterdam: City of Immigrants
- Godfried Engbersen (2013) - The Public Value of the Social Sciences
- Godfried Engbersen (2013) - The relevance and irrelevance of migration networks in understanding decreasing and expanding migration flows
- Godfried Engbersen (2013) - Arm Nederland
- Erik Snel, M 't Hart & Godfried Engbersen (2013) - Reactive Transnationalism: transnational involvement in the face of discrimination
- Godfried Engbersen (2013) - 'Het beste medicijn tegen armoede'
- Godfried Engbersen (2013) - Armoede in Nederland. Wat doen we ertegen?
- Godfried Engbersen (2013) - De publieke functie van de sociale wetenschappen
- Godfried Engbersen (2013) - Feedback channels and the diminutive causation of international migration
- 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)
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