Peter Scholten

Peter Scholten is assistant professor in the sociology of intercultural governance at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. Starting from July 2009, he will become assistant professor in public policy and politics at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He has a master (with honours) in Public Administration and Public Policy, and defended his PhD Thesis in 2008 on ‘Constructing Immigrant  Policies: Research-policy relations and immigrant integration in the Netherlands, 1970-2004.’ His research, publications and teaching focus on issues of governance in multicultural societies. Peter’s currently involved in research projects on 'Research-policy dialogues on migration and integration in Europe', 'Rethinking science-based expertise and political judgment’ and 'States, knowledge and narratives of migration'. Peter is research fellow of the Institute for Governance Studies, senior-member of the Netherlands Institute for Government and affiliated member of the European network of excellence on International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe. Also, he is secretary of the editorial board of the Dutch journal on migration and ethnic studies Migrantenstudies.

Roland Robertson

Roland Robertson is Professor of Sociology and Global Society, University of Aberdeen; Visiting Professor of Sociology, University of Essex; and Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh. His publications include The Sociological Interpretation of Religion (Blackwell); Meaning and Change (Blackwell); Globalization: Social Theory and Global Culture (Sage); Globalization & Football (co-author, Sage). He has published hundreds of articles and book chapters on global society, international relations, social theory, religion, culture, and political sociology. His work has been translated into over twenty languages.

Claus Offe

Claus Offe teaches Political Sociology at the Hertie School of Governance. He completed his PhD at the University of Frankfurt and his Habilitation at the University of Konstanz. In Germany, he has held chairs for Political Science and Political Sociology at the Universities of Bielefeld (1975-1989) and Bremen (1989-1995), as well as at the Humboldt-University of Berlin (1995-2005). He has worked as fellow and visiting professor at, among others, the Institutes for Advanced Study in Stanford, Princeton, and the Australian National University as well as Harvard University, the University of California at Berkeley and the New School University, New York.

Anna C. Korteweg

Anna C. Korteweg is assistant professor in the department of sociology at the University of Toronto (PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2004). Her current research focuses on the integration of Muslim immigrants in the Netherlands, Germany, and Canada. She has looked at the murder of Theo van Gogh, public discourses on honour killing in the Netherlands and Germany, and the debate over sharia-based arbitration in Ontario, Canada. In this work, her analysis focuses on the centrality of gender in public discourses and policy approaches to the integration of Muslim immigrants. She is currently conducting two research projects. The first one, with Dr. Gokce Yurdakul, Humboldt University Berlin, focuses on media and policy debates on honour related violence in the four major immigrant receiving countries, Germany, the Netherlands, Britain, and Canada. The second research project, a collaboration with Dr. Phil Triadafilopoulos, Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, investigates how national identities are formed in debates about immigrant integration. Anna Korteweg has published in Theory & Society, the Annual Review of Sociology, Contexts, Qualitative Sociology, Social Politics, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Gender & Society, and contributed book chapters to Analysing Social Policy: A Governmental Approach and (Edward Elgar 2006) and Migration, Citizenship, Ethnos (Palgrave MacMillan 2006). 

Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans

Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans, born in 1961, graduate of political science at the University of Amsterdam; senior researcher at the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research (ASSR), at the Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau in Rijswijk and at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin. Since 2003 Professor of Sociology, Chair in Social Conflict and Change, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, since April 2007 Director of the research unit "Migration, Integration, Transnationalization" at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB). His research interests include: Immigration and integration politics; Right-wing radicalism; Social movements; European integration; Evolutionary sociology.

Randall Hansen

Randall Hansen is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Immigration & Governance in the department of political science at the University of Toronto. His work covers immigration and citizenship and political history. He is author of  Citizenship and Immigration in Post-War Britain (OUP, 2000), Towards a European Nationality (w. P. Weil, Palgrave, 2001), Dual Nationality, Social Rights, and Federal Citizenship in the U.S. and Europe (w. P. Weil, Berghahn, 2002), Immigration and asylum from 1900 to the present [w. M. Gibney, ABC-CLIO, 2005]. His website is: www.randallhansen.ca

Marnie Bjornson

Marnie Bjornson is a PhD candidate in Social and Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Toronto. Her doctoral research on Dutch ‘integration’ policies focuses on neoliberal language ideologies and citizenship within a governmentality framework. She conducted participant observation fieldwork in the civic integration training programmes between 2002 and 2003. Publications of her findings include: Speaking of citizenship: Language ideologies in Dutch citizenship regimes (Focaal 2007) and Cito-Citizens: Language and exclusion in the Netherlands (TSS 2009).