Mark van Ostaijen

Personal profile

Research interests

Mark M.A.C. van Ostaijen is an assistant professor at the Tilburg School of Governance. In his research he studies how 'smart urban intermediaries' make a difference in neighbourhoods of Amsterdam Nieuw-West. This research is part of NWO Urban Europe 'SmartUrbI' with a comparative focus on Glasgow, Birmingham and Copenhagen. Before he started at Tilburg University, Mark worked at the Netherlands School of Public Administration (NSOB) and as lecturer and PhD candidate at Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) where he worked at the NWO Urban Europe research project IMAGINATION (governance of Central and Eastern European migration).

In June 2017 he succesfully defended his PhD thesis 'Worlds between Words : the politics of intra-European movement discourses' which can be downloaded here (supervised by prof. dr. Godfried Engbersen and prof. dr. Peter Scholten). For this PhD research he was a visiting doctoral researcher at De Montfort University in Leicester (UK). More in general, he published academic and non-academic articles, Dutch and English book chapters about migration, populism, citizenship and (urban) politics.

Teaching

Introduction Public Governance

Public Policymaking

Current courses

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Keywords

Social Philosophy / Social Ethics
Political Philosophy / Political Ethics
Sociological Theories
Public Administration

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Research Output

Legitimating intra-European movement discourses: understanding mobility and migration

van Ostaijen, M., 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : Comparative European Politics. p. 1 20 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review

Review of the book Politics of precarity: Migrant conditions, struggles and experiences, Martin Bak Jørgensen and Carl-Ulrik Schierup, 2016

van Ostaijen, M., 2019, (Accepted/In press) In : Politics, Religion and Ideology .

Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › Other research output

Rotterdam as a case of complexity reduction: Migration from Central and Eastern European countries

van Ostaijen, M., Snel, E. & 't Hart, M., 2019, Coming to terms with superdiversity : The case of Rotterdam. Scholten, P., Crul, M. & van der Laar, P. (eds.). Springer, p. 153-170 18 p. (IMISCOE Research Series; vol. 2019).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review

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