Dr. Ilse van Liempt

Vening Meineszgebouw A
Princetonlaan 8a
Kamer 6.22
3584 CB Utrecht

Dr. Ilse van Liempt

Associate Professor
Urban Geography
+31 30 253 4437
i.c.vanliempt@uu.nl

Ilse van Liempt is Chair in Urban Geography and Associate Professor in the Human Geography Department, research leader of the UU wide Focus Area Migration and Societal Change and coordinator of the Research Master Global Urban Transformations. Van Liempt's research considers the politics of migration with a focus on belonging, citizenship and in/exclusion in the spaces of everyday life in Europe.

Previously, Van Liempt worked at the Institute for Ethnic and Migration Studies (IMES) in Amsterdam and at the Sussex Center for Migration Research (SCMR). Her PhD was published in 2007 as a book called Navigating Borders with Amsterdam University Press. Since then she has published widely on irregular migration, refugee migration, gender, public space, diversity and processes of inclusion and exclusion in cities.

 Ilse van Liempt is leading and involved in the following research projects. 

1. I-Claim (Horizon): Improving Living and Working Conditions of Irregular Migrant Households in Europe.

I-CLAIM focuses on the nexus between irregularity and labour exploitation in different sectors of the economy that rely heavily on the work of irregular migrants: the care and domestic work sector, the agri-food sector and logistics and delivery. Ilse van Liempt is PI on this project and supervises postdoctoral researcher Minke Hajer on her research with undocumented migrants in Utrecht. 

2. RAISE (Horizon): Recognition and Acknowledgment of Injustice to Strenghten Equality

will provide new insights on how xenophobia and racism are institutionalized and made structural in everyday life social encounters, also contributing to raising awareness of structural racism. Within this project Ilse van Liempt supervises the postdoctoral research of Eline Huygens into everyday forms of discrimination around parenting encounters.

3. Re-Root (H2020): Arrival infrastructures as sites of integration for recent newcomers

Within the ReRoot project Ilse van Liempt supervises 2 Phd students. Carolien Lubberhuizen researches the arrival infrastructure of labour migrants in the agricultural sector in Westland (NL) and Sint Truiden (Belgium). Shila Hadji Heydari Anaraki researches the arrival infrastructures of transit migrants in Bruxelles and Amsterdam.