Maarten Peter Vink

Associate Professor / Comparative Migration Studies

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Maarten Vink is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, Maastricht University, the Netherlands. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Leiden University  (2003) and has been in Maastricht since 2004. Vink was previously a Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute in Florence, Italy (2003-2004) and FCT Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal (2007-2010). He also held Visiting Scholarships at the Center for European Studies, New York University (Fall 2004) and at the Department of Philosophy and Culture at the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal (Fall 2005).

Vink  teaches in the Maastricht European Studies programs and supervises Bachelor papers, Master theses and doctoral dissertations on topics related to citizenship and migration, Europeanization and comparative politics. Vink is also Programme Director of the Part-time PhD Programme in European Studies at Campus Brussels of Maastricht University.

Vink is co-organizer of the Maastricht.migration research group. His research interests are in the area of comparative migration studies, with particular focus on citizenship, asylum and family migration. His current research focuses on comparing citizenship laws, with a strong focus on Europe, identifying patterns of historical variation and contemporary change. He is particularly interested in analyzing the effects of citizenship laws on naturalization rates and immigrant integration. Vink is part of the managing consortium of the European Union Democracy Observatory on Citizenship. He has presented work on citizenship and migration at the European Commission, the European Parliament, the Council of Europe, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Intergovernmental Consultations on Immigration, Asylum and Refugees, the Center for European Policy Studies, the Migration Policy Group and at numerous academic conferences and universities. His research has been funded by the European Commission, the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Dutch Advisory Committee on Aliens Affairs, the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology and UNHCR, among others.

Vink publishes regularly on issues related to citizenship and migration, comparative methods, and European studies.  He edited a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies on "Migration and Citizenship Attribution: Politics and Policies in Western Europe" (2010) and co-edited a 25-chapter handbook Europeanization: New Research Agendas (Palgrave Macmillan 2007, paperback  2008). His research monograph Limits of European Citizenship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) deals with the impact of European integration on domestic immigration policies, in particular in the Netherlands. Vink published papers in international journals such as Acta Politica, Citizenship Studies, European Integration Online Papers, European Political Science, European Union Politics, Field Methods, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Journal of Refugee Studies, Political Studies Review, and West European Politics. He is managing editor of the COMPASSS Working Paper series on systematic comparative methods.