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Regulation leads to lower income and poorer health in retired migrants06 May 2026The cost-sharing standard (kostendelersnorm) – a regulation affecting recipients of supplementary income for older people, often with a migrant backgr...
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Paper versus practice: border control is in human handsPhD defence 25 March 2026Even when a border has officially disappeared, it is still people who decide whether others may cross freely. This was also true for the Polish-German...
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Professor Marlou Schrover bids farewellInterview 02 March 2026Marlou Schrover played an important role in the study of migration history for many years. Now she is bidding farewell.
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Could restricting EU free movement help tackle brain drain?03 February 2026Eastern and Southern European countries struggle with ‘brain drain’ as skilled workers move to other EU Member States. Could restricting free movement...
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Maartje van der Woude appointed Mercator Fellow in GöttingenAppointment 27 January 2026Professor of Law and Society Maartje van der Woude has been appointed as a Mercator Fellow at the University of Göttingen’s research group Mobility Ri...
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Rethinking the current migration debate06 November 2025Anti-immigration protests over asylum seekers receive extensive attention, but PhD candidate Clare Fenwick says it’s a vocal minority taking to the st...
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Do’s and don’ts for an effective immigration policyDutch elections 17 October 2025Stopping people at the border does not result in less refugee migration, but providing relief in the region where migrants come from does. What else w...
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Spanish village full of Leiden residents: dozens of textile workers once migrated to GuadalajaraNWO grant 14 October 2025In the Spanish town of Guadalajara, there is a street named ‘Burgemeester Fluiterstraat’, named after a descendant of Leiden migrants who had done wel...
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Melanie Fink on AI Technologies in European Border Management at University of Glasgow Workshop23 June 2025On 20 June 2025, Melanie Fink presented her research on ‘Robo Swarms and Polygraphs: The Future of European Border Management and its Human Costs’ at ...
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Migration scholar Katharina Natter wins Gratama Science PrizePolitical science 16 May 2025For her research into migration policy under different political regimes, Katharina Natter has been awarded the Gratama Science Prize for young, talen...
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Jamel Buhari: ‘Queer migration is intertwined with other reasons for leaving’24 April 2025Those who apply for asylum at the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND) are often asked about their main reason for migration. This process put...
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Patchwork of police checks across Schengen area04 April 2025The Schengen countries officially abolished border controls, but checks actually still exist. Maartje van der Woude has written a book about these vei...
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Looking at forced migration through an interdisciplinary lensInternational research 30 January 2025Researchers at Leiden University and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) have launched an initiative to learn more about the experienc...
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Punishment or refuge? ‘Women sometimes aimed to be convicted’28 January 2025Over a thousand women ended up in a State workhouse between 1886 and 1934. This was a place for vagrants, beggars and drunkards: people who were said ...
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These were Leiden University’s interdisciplinary milestones of 202417 December 2024Connecting scientific fields, enhancing research and teaching, and providing innovative solutions to complex social issues: that is the idea behind in...