dr.

(Roy) RBC Huijsmans

Profile

My research concentrates on young people’s situated encounters with development and change, privileging the perspectives of those who are rarely heard. My early research contributed to the recognition of, and the development of theoretical approaches to children and young people as agents in migration. This work is published in leading journals in Development Studies, Human Geography and Childhood & Youth studies and impacted policy discussions on children, youth and migration.

Next I developed the broader project of theoretically accounting for children and young people in relation to international development. Through the idea of ‘generationing development’ I have shown how concepts of age and generation are key to bridging work in the social studies of childhood and youth with critical development studies. The work was first introduced in a Special Issue of a leading Development Studies journal (co-edited) and developed further in a single-edited volume (Palgrave, 2016). 

Currently I’m involved in two major international, comparative research projects. They both focus on young people’s orientation to the future and their pathways into social adulthood (one ESRC-DFID funded, one Canadian Insight Grant funded project). Next to this I am conducting research into young people’s engagement with mobile telephony in rural post-socialist Southeast Asia, shedding light on the intersection between being young and the post-socialist condition. Throughout, my research is characterised by an ethnographic orientation, which informs my writing, methodological choices, research ethics, approach to theory building and conceptualisation, as well as my teaching.

• All publications (68)

  • Article (21)

    • R.B.C. Huijsmans & . Piti (2020). Rural Schooling and Good Life in Late Socialist Laos: Articulations, sketches and moments of 'good time'. European Journal of East Asian Studies. doi: 10.1163/15700615-20211001
    • L. Rodan & R.B.C. Huijsmans (2020). “Our Generation…” Aspiration, Desire, and Generation as Discourse Among Highly Educated, Portuguese, Post-austerity Migrants in London. European Journal of Development Research. doi: 10.1057/s41287-020-00299-4 [go to publisher's site]
    • F.N. Taye & R.B.C. Huijsmans (2020). Monetised Childhoods: Money and consumption among young weavers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Global Studies of Childhood, 10 (2), 183-194. doi: 10.1177/2043610619895021 [go to publisher's site]
    • R.B.C. Huijsmans, A. Ambarwati, C. Chazali & M. Vijayabaskar (2020). Farming, Gender and Aspirations across Young People's Life Course: Attempting to keep things open while becoming a farmer. European Journal of Development Research. doi: 10.1057/s41287-020-00302-y
    • N. Ansell, P. Froerer, R.B.C. Huijsmans, C.E. Dungey, A.C. Dost & . Piti (2020). Educating 'Surplus Population': Uses and abuses of aspiration in the rural peripheries of a globalising world. Fennia, 198 (1-2), 17-38. doi: 10.11143/fennia.90756
    • R.B.C. Huijsmans, N. Ansell & P. Froerer (2020). Introduction: Development, Young People, and the Social Production of Aspirations. European Journal of Development Research.
    • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2019). Becoming mobile and growing up: A “generationed” perspective on borderland mobilities, youth, and the household. Population Space and Place, 25 (3). doi: 10.1002/psp.2150
    • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2018). 'Knowledge that moves': Emotions and affect in policy and research with young migrants. Children's Geographies, 16 (6), 628-641. doi: 10.1080/14733285.2018.1468869
    • L. Chea & R.B.C. Huijsmans (2018). Rural youth and urban-based vocational training: gender, space and aspiring to 'become someone'. Children's Geographies, 16 (1), 39-52. doi: 10.1080/14733285.2017.1300234
    • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2018). Invited comment [to: Sedentary Optics : static anti-trafficking and mobile victims by Sverre Molland]. Current Anthropology, 59 (2), 127-128. doi: 10.1086/697199
    • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2017). Exploring the "Age Question" in Research on Young Migrants in Southeast Asia. Childhood Obesity, 25 (2), 122-134. doi: 10.25133/JPSSv25n2.004 [go to publisher's site]
    • R.B.C. Huijsmans & T. Trần (2015). Enacting Nationalism through Youthful Mobilities? Youth, mobile phones and digital capitalism in a Lao-Vietnamese borderland. Nations and Nationalism : Journal of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, 21 (2), 209-229. doi: 10.1111/nana.12095
    • R.B.C. Huijsmans, S. George, R. Gigengack & S.J.T.M. Evers (2014). Theorising Age and Generation in Development: A Relational Approach. European Journal of Development Research, 26 (2), 163-174. doi: 10.1057/ejdr.2013.65
    • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2014). Becoming a Young Migrant or Stayer Seen through the Lens of ‘Householding’: Households ‘in flux’ and the intersection of relations of gender and seniority. Geoforum, 51, 294-304. doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2012.11.007
    • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2013). ‘Doing Gendered Age’: Older mothers and migrant daughters negotiating care work in rural Lao PDR and Thailand. Third World Quarterly, 34 (10), 1896-1910. doi: 10.1080/01436597.2013.851952
    • R.B.C. Huijsmans & S. Baker (2012). Child Trafficking: `Worst Form¿ of Child Labour, or Worst Approach to Young Migrants? Development and Change, 43 (4), 919-946. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2012.01786.x
    • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2012). Beyond compartmentalization: A relational approach towards agency and vulnerability of young migrants. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 29-45. doi: 10.1002/cad.20009
    • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2011). Child Migration and Questions of Agency. Development and Change, 42 (5), 1307-1321. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2011.01729.x
    • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2011). 'The Theatre of Human Trafficking: A global discourse on Lao stages. International Journal of Social Quality, 1 (2), 66-84.
    • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2008). Children Working Beyond their Localities: Lao children working in Thailand. Childhood-A Global Journal of Child Research, 15 (531), 331-353. doi: 10.1177/0907568208091667
    • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2007). Approaches to Lao Minors Working in Thailand. Juth Pakai (Lao Development Journal), 18-33.

  • Part of book - Chapter (12)

    • Scholarly Publication (11)

      • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2019). Cash, Women, and the Nation: Tales of morality about Lao banknotes in times of rapid change. In L.A. Hoang & C. Alipio (Eds.), Money and Moralities in Contemporary Asia (pp. 241-265). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press [go to publisher's site]
      • L. Chea & R.B.C. Huijsmans (2019). Rural Youth and Urban-based Vocational Training: Gender, space and aspiring to ‘become someone’. In S. Naafs & T Skelton (Eds.), Realities and Aspirations for Asian Youth: Education, training, employment. Abingdon: Routledge [go to publisher's site]
      • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2018). Transnational Childhoods. In H Montgomery & M Robb (Eds.), Children and Young People's Worlds (2nd edition) (pp. 123-139). Bristol: Policy Press
      • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2017). Children and Young People in Migration: A Relational Approach. In C. Ni Laoire, A. White & T. Skelton (Eds.), Movement, Mobilities and Journeys (Geographies of Children and Young People, 6) (pp. 45-66). Singapore: Springer [go to publisher's site] doi: 10.1007/978-981-4585-93-4_1-1
      • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2016). Child trafficking: ‘worst form’ of child labour, or worst approach to young migrants? In N. Howard & S. Okyere (Eds.), Childhood and Youth. Beyond Trafficking and Slavery Short Course. Vol. 7 (pp. 29-31). openDemocracy [go to publisher's site]
      • N. Gerber & R.B.C. Huijsmans (2016). From Access to Post-access Concerns: Rethinking Inclusion in Education Through Children’s Everyday School Attendance in Rural Malaysia. In C. Hunner-Kreisel & S. Bohne (Eds.), Childhood, Youth and Migration: Connecting Global and Local Perspectives (Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research, 12) (pp. 203-221). Springer doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-31111-1_13
      • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2016). Generationing Development: An introduction. In R. Huijsmans (Ed.), Generationing Development: A Relational Approach to Children, Youth and Development (Palgrave Studies on Children and Development) (pp. 1-31). London: Palgrave Macmillan doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-55623-3
      • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2016). Critical Geopolitics of Child and Youth Migration in (Post)Socialist Laos. In M.C. Benwell & P. Hopkins (Eds.), Children, Young People and Critical Geopolitics (Critical Geopolitics) (pp. 139-154). Farnham: Ashgate
      • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2014). Gender, Masculinity, and Safety in the Changing Lao-Thai Migration Landscape. In T-D Truong, D Gasper, J Handmaker & S.I. Bergh (Eds.), Migration, Gender and Social Justice: Perspectives on Human Security (Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, 9) (pp. 333-349). Heidelberg, etc.: Springer [go to publisher's site] doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-28012-2_19
      • . Trần Thị Hà Lan & R.B.C. Huijsmans (2014). Experiencing the State and Negotiating Belonging in Zomia: Pa Koh and Bru-Van Kieu Ethnic Minority Youth in a Lao-Vietnamese Borderland. In S. Spyros & M. Christou (Eds.), Children and Borders (Studies in Childhood and Youth) (pp. 27-46). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan
      • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2011). The EUs Ambiguous Position on Migrant Underage Workers. In T.D. Truong & D. Gasper (Eds.), Transnational Migration and Human Security: The migration-development-security nexus (pp. 159-168). Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-12757-1_12

    • Professional Publication (1)

      • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2019). Young Women and Girls' Migration and Education: Understanding the multiple relations. In IOM (Ed.), Supporting Brighter Futures: Young women and girls and labour migration in South-East Asia and the Pacific (pp. 31-42). Geneva: International Organization for Migration [go to publisher's site]

  • Book editorship (1)

    • R.B.C. Huijsmans (Ed.). (2016). Generationing Development: A Relational Approach to Children, Youth and Development. (Palgrave Studies on Children and Development). London: Palgrave Macmillan doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-55623-3

  • Book review (10)

    • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2017). Children: Ethnographic encounters. [Bespreking van het boek Children: Ethnographic Encounters]. Children's Geographies, 1-2. doi: 10.1080/14733285.2017.1287504
    • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2016). Book review of 'Class Work: Vocational schools and China's urban youth'. [Bespreking van het boek Class Work: Vocational schools and China's urban youth]. Children's Geographies, 1-2. doi: 10.1080/14733285.2016.1184825
    • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2016). Decentring the History of the Idea of Children's Rights. [Bespreking van de boeken Childhood and Colonial Modernity in Egypt & Inhabiting ‘Childhood’: Children, labour and schooling in postcolonial India]. The International Journal of Children's Rights, 24(4), 924-929. doi: 10.1163/15718182-02404011
    • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2015). Book Review of Holly High's 'Field of Desire: Poverty and Policy in Laos'. [Bespreking van het boek Fields of Desire: Poverty and Policy in Laos]. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 50(6), 765-766. doi: 10.1177/0021909614566750
    • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2014). Book review 'Reconceptualizing Children's Rights in International Development: Living rights, social justice, translations. [Bespreking van het boek Reconceptualizing Children's Rights in International Development: Living rights, social justice, translations]. Children's Geographies, 1-2. doi: 10.1080/14733285.2014.886876
    • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2013). Book review of "Youth gangs and street children: culture, nurture and masculinity in Ethiopia". [Bespreking van het boek Youth gangs and street children: culture, nurture and masculinity in Ethiopia]. Children's Geographies. doi: 10.1080/14733285.2013.849439
    • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2012). Besmette Jeugd: Kinderen van NSB'ers na de oorlog [Contaminated Youth: Children of NSB members after the war]. [Bespreking van het boek Besmette Jeugd: Kinderen van NSB’ers na de oorlog [Contaminated Youth: Children of NSB Members after the War]]. Childhood-A Global Journal of Child Research, 19(3), 414-416. doi: 10.1177/0907568212451799
    • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2011). Rights and Wrongs of Children¿s Work [Bespreking van de boeken Rights and Wrongs of Children’s Work & Rights and Wrongs of Children’s Work]. Children’s Geographies , 9(3-4), 483-485. doi: 10.1080/14733285.2011.590719
    • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2009). Young People and Social Change: New perspectives. [Bespreking van het boek Young People and Social Change: New perspectives]. Children’s Geographies , 7(2), 235-241. doi: 10.1080/14733280902799066
    • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2009). An Introduction to Childhood: Anthropological perspectives on children¿s lives. [Bespreking van het boek An Introduction to Childhood: Anthropological perspectives on children’s lives]. Children’s Geographies , 7(3), 362-363. doi: 10.1080/14733280903024530

  • Report (7)

    • Scholarly Publication (6)

      • N. Ansell, P. Froerer, R.B.C. Huijsmans, C. Dungey, A.C. Dost & S. Changpitikoun (2018). Policy Brief: Innovating in Rural Education. (Extern rapport). London: Brunel University London [go to publisher's site]
      • N. Ansell, P. Froerer, R.B.C. Huijsmans, C. Dungey, A.C. Dost & S. Changpitikoun (2018). Policy brief: Rural children's access to the content of education. (Extern rapport). London: Brunel University London [go to publisher's site]
      • N. Ansell, P. Froerer, R.B.C. Huijsmans, C. Dungey, A.C. Dost & S. Changpitikoun (2018). Policy Brief: The Representation of Occupations in School. (Extern rapport). London: Brunel University London [go to publisher's site]
      • N. Ansell, P. Froerer, R.B.C. Huijsmans, C. Dungey, A.C. Dost & S. Changpitikoun (2018). Policy Brief: The Roles of Rural Teachers. (Extern rapport). London: Brunel University London [go to publisher's site]
      • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2006). Children, Childhood And Migration. (ISS Working Papers, General Series, no 427). The Hague: ISS
      • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2004). Listening to Working School-Youth: A child-centred case-study of employment experiences of HAVO-students in rural eastern Netherlands. (Master Thesis). The Hague: Institute of Social Studies (ISS)

    • Professional Publication (1)

      • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2012). Background paper on Young Migrants in Urban Ghana, focusing particularly on young female head porters (kayayei). (Extern rapport). Amsterdam: Plan Netherlands

  • Doctoral thesis (1)

    • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2010, oktober 4). Migrating Children, Households, and the Post-Socialist State: An ethnographic study. Durham University (374 pag.) (Durham (UK): Durham University) Prom./coprom.: J. Rigg & R. Pain.

  • Other output (7)

    • Scholarly Publication (2)

      • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2011). Unpacking the Gender Paradox in Lao Households¿ Migration Decision-making Processes. Workshop On Householding In Transition: Emerging Dynamics In ‘Developing’ East And Southeast Asia: Singapore (2011, juli 25 - 2011, juli 26).
      • R.B.C. Huijsmans & K. Phouxay (2008). `Whether you go illegally or legally in the end it¿s the same, you¿re cheated¿: A study of formal and informal recruitment practices of Lao workers migrating to Thailand. ILO project: Migrant recruitment from the Lao PDR to Thailand – Final Report: Vientiane.

    • Professional Publication (2)

      • R.B.C. Huijsmans, A. Savirani, B. Amin, B.N.F. White, S. Naafs & W.M. Minza (2011). Youth and Generation: A Southeast Asian Perspective. Presentation at the 3rd Southeast Asia Update: Leiden (2011, juni 24).
      • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2011). Lao Childhoods in Transition. Presentation at the 26th Annual conference of the Association of Southeast Asian Studies in the United Kingdom (ASEASUK), Magdalene College: Cambridge (2011, september 9 - 2011, september 11).

    • Other Publication (3)

      • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2014). Youthful Mobilities, Prosumer Capitalism and Belonging in the Rural Borderlands of Southeast Asia. CTC 2014: 'Being, Becoming and Belonging' (6th International Conference on Child and Teen Consumption): Edinburgh (2014, april 9 - 2014, april 11).
      • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2014). 'Young people in Laos and research grants', interview with Roy Huijsmans by [Thessa Lageman]. Erasmus Magazine: (2014, mei 8).
      • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2013). Children, Childhood and Migration: Some critical thoughts. International conference on 'Childhood and Migration: Gendered and generational perspectives': Vechta (Germany) (2013, december 5 - 2013, december 6).

  • Internet article (6)

    • Scholarly Publication (5)

      • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2020). Moving National Narratives: Artistic expressions of flight, refuge and belonging. (blog). BLISS. (available: 31 Jan 2020).
      • R.B.C. Huijsmans & E.N. Mills (2019). What determines societal relevance? (blog). BLISS - The ISS Blog on Global Development and Social Justice. (available: 10 Jan 2019).
      • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2019). Rap Against Dictatorship: Thai lessons in history, politics and belonging. (blog). BLISS. (available: 27 Feb 2019).
      • R.B.C. Huijsmans, K. Grabska & C. Wilcock (2019). Creative Development: Migration and musical mobilities in Sudan and Laos. (blog). BLISS. (available: 31 Jan 2019).
      • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2015). Child trafficking: ‘worst form’ of child labour, or worst approach to young migrants? (blog). OpenDemocracy. (available: 13 Jul 2015). [go to publisher's site]

    • Professional Publication (1)

      • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2018). Trata infantil: ¿la «peor forma» de trabajo infantil o el peor abordaje a la migración juvenil? (blog). Open Democracy. (available: 12 Dec 2018).

  • Journal editorship / Referee (1)

    • S.J.T.M. Evers, S. George, R. Gigengack & R.B.C. Huijsmans (Eds.). (2014-2014) European Journal of Development Research, 26(2).

  • Website / portal (1)

    • R.B.C. HuijsmansCYD-Blog Children, Youth and Development. . Retrieved Apr 01, 2015, from http://blog.eur.nl/iss/cys/

  • Lecture (1)

    • R.B.C. Huijsmans (2014, november 26). Jongeren en Mobiele Telefonie in Laos en Vietnam. Erasmus University Rotterdam, Kindercollege, Wetenschapsknooppunt EUR.

• Teaching (11)

  General Information

  Title

  General Information

  Year

  2020

  4154 Critical Social Policy

  Title

  4154 Critical Social Policy

  Year

  2020

  3105 Research Paper Preparation

  Title

  3105 Research Paper Preparation

  Year

  2020

  5401 Research Paper

  Title

  5401 Research Paper

  Year

  2020

  2102 The Making of Development (GMD)

  Title

  2102 The Making of Development (GMD)

  Year

  2020

  Major SPD

  Title

  Major SPD

  Year

  2020

  2101 The Making of Development

  Title

  2101 The Making of Development

  Year

  2020

  2201 Encounters in Development Studies

  Title

  2201 Encounters in Development Studies

  Year

  2020

  3303 Ethnographic Research

  Title

  3303 Ethnographic Research

  Year

  2020

  DigitalLives

  Title

  DigitalLives

  Year

  2020

  Board of Examiners

  Title

  Board of Examiners

  Year

  2020

• Editorial positions (2)

  Additional Information

  Co-editor of the series 'Palgrave Studies on Children and Development' (details: http://www.palgrave.com/products/SearchResults.a spx?s=PSCD&fid=1587)

  Children's Geographies

  Additional Information

  Member of the International Advisory Board of Children's Geographies: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cchg20/current#.UcI GcPlmh8E

  Role

  Member International Editorial Advisory Board

  Start date approval

  Sep/2013

• Present position

  Associate Professor

  University

  Erasmus University Rotterdam

  School

  International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)

  Department

  Academic staff unit

• Other positions (2)

  Kulturstudier

  Additional Information

  http://www.kulturstudier.com/

  Role

  Lecturer Development Studies (Viet Nam)

  Start date approval

  Jan/2010

  End date approval

  Apr/2017

  Deliveroo

  Role

  Riderrrr

  Start date approval

  Oct/2019