Erasmus University Rotterdam

The Erasmus University in Rotterdam (Sociology Department) is one of Europe’s leading research universities. The Erasmus University is strong in the field of social sciences and has a strong international presence, attracting scholars and students from many countries. The project team for the FP7 project will be hosted by the Sociology department of the Erasmus University. The Sociology department has a strong focus on migration and ethnic studies with some of the most well-known scholars in this field of study in the Netherlands and Europe.

CIMIC (Citizen Migration and the City) research group analyses the consequences of globalization in terms of new patters of citizenship, human and social mobility and identity formation. EUR/CIMIC is one of the leading research groups in the Netherlands on the topic of migration and ethnic studies. It brings together four research clusters: migration, integration, citizenship and the city. The project fits very well within the center’s ambition to do comparative, transnational, and interdisciplinary research, and its methodology and general approach shows great affinity with EUR/CIMIC’s problem-focused comparative approach.  Hence EUR/CIMIC will provide an excellent base for an international comparative project that will involve fieldwork in several countries. The project will be able to benefit greatly from the presence of many international experts (among others Prof. Han Entzinger, Prof. Godfried Engbersen) on comparative research in the EUR/CIMIC research group. The center is also embedded in many national and international research networks, and has extensive institutional collaborations abroad. For instance, its scholars participate in research networks (for instance, in the EU Networks of Excellence IMISCOE) with the City University in New York, UCLA and several EU-financed networks and large-scale projects.