Prof Dr Maarten Vink (M.P.)

New project “Migrant Life Course and Legal Status Transition (MiLifeStatus)” funded by a Consolidator Grant of the European Research Council (2016-2021)

My research is located in the subfields of political sociology and comparative methodology and focuses in particular on the study of the politics of citizenship, migration and integration in a comparative context. I have researched and published extensively on the 'Europeanization' of national policies in these domains, looking at the relation between the European Union and its member states. My current research particularly focuses on the role that citizenship can play in processes of immigrant integration, looking at questions such as why some immigrants naturalize whereas others don't, as well as whether this matters at all for their societal incorporation (see this video clip for a brief summary of some research on these questions and also my inaugural lecture of 1 May 2015 on "Elusive citizenship").

See also Google Scholar Publication Profile and ResearcherID and ResearchGate.

Replication data for some of my publications are available through my dataverse at the Harvard Dataverse.

See also the Maastricht Center for Citizenship, Migration and Development and the research programme on Globalization Transnationalism and Development of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.