Our Master’s programme Migration, Ethnic Relations and Multiculturalism will be represented at this event at Utrecht University. You will have the opportunity to join information sessions and talk to teachers, students, alumni, and student advisors at the information fair. You’ll find more information and how to register at the Utrecht University’s website.

Migration, Integration and Ethnic Relations. This course introduces students to social scientific theories and empirical research on international migration, the integration of immigrants and their children, and reactions of the host society. Throughout, we use an interdisciplinary and analytical approach, drawing on theories and empirical research from sociology, psychology, political science, demography and economics, among…

Inter-ethnic Friendships: Predictors for Contact between Immigrant and Native Adolescents Abstract Inter-ethnic friendships can be seen as a benchmark for positive intergroup relations in growingly multicultural societies. Nevertheless, research repeatedly found that friendships are predominantly formed within ethnic groups. This talk will present results from studies that investigated predictors for inter-individual differences in adolescents’ inter-ethnic…

The Limits of Partisan Prejudice Partisanship increasingly factors into the behavior of Americans in both political and non-political situations, yet the bounds of partisan prejudice are largely unknown. In this paper we systematically evaluate the limits of partisan prejudice using a series of five studies situated within a typology of prejudice. We find that partisan…

Understanding When and How Inclusive Identities Undermine Motivation for Social Change Toward Equality Among Disadvantaged-Group Members.   Abstract As Wright (2009) observed, strategies for reducing prejudice can inadvertently create impediments to collective action among disadvantaged-group members, because these approaches can undermine many of the elements that foment collective action. Past research has consistently demonstrated that…

Selective Migration and the Educational Disadvantages of Second Generation Immigrants in Ten Nations Download the abstract