Alumni MERM 2009
Ozge Bilgili
Thesis: The Educational Achievement of Immigrant Children: Does Parents’ Relative Education Play a Role?
First occupation: PhD student Graduate School of Governance; Project entitled ‘Migration and Development: a World in Motion’, Maastricht University.
Jolien Geerlings
Thesis: Ethnic Language Usage and Ethnic Self-identification among Second Generation Immigrants in the US: A Cross Lagged Longitudinal Study.
Hinke Gijzel
Thesis: Attitudes towards Schools with Ethnic Minority Children: The Differential Effect of Education.
Karlijn Haagsman
Thesis: Intergroup Contact and Social Distance among Majority and Minority Groups in the Russian Federation.
First occupation: Research fellow / PhD student, University Maastricht.
Violeta Ilieva
Thesis: Worries, Values and Perceived Threat - Studying Anti-Muslim and Anti-Jewish Prejudice in the Netherlands.
Geertje Lucassen
Thesis: Far Right Preference in Europe: the Importance to Distinguish Perceived Cultural and Economic Ethnic Threats.
First Occupation: Started working for a NGO.
Anouk Smeekes
Thesis: Attitudes towards Immigrants and Muslims in the Netherlands: An Outcome of National Identification and Identity Framing.
First occupation: PhD student, Utrecht University.
Irene ten Teije
Thesis: Minorities’ Attitudes towards the Ethnic Majority: Examining the Role of Education.
First occupation: Traineeship at Ministry of VROM. 1st half year at department of Integration (Inburgering & Integratie).
Anne Thormann
Thesis: The Role of Social Networks for the Economic Well-Being of Refugees and Immigrants in Johannesburg, Maputo and Nairobi.
Thomas de Vroome
Thesis: The Employment Experience of Refugees in the Netherlands.
First occupation: PhD student Interdisciplinary Social Science, Utrecht University.