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Dr. Saskia Bonjour

Saskia Bonjour is assistant professor in Gender and Politics. Her research and teaching focus on the politics of migration and integration in the Netherlands and in Europe. She is especially interested in family migration, civic integration, gender and migration, and Europeanisation.

Research

Saskia Bonjour´s current current research consists of a comparative analysis of the making of family migration policies in France, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the Netherlands from the 1950s until the 1990s. Through a detailed reconstruction of policy making processes both at administrative and political levels, she aims to contribute to the ongoing debate among migration scholars about how to explain ‘why liberal states accept unwanted migration’ (Joppke 1998). This research is a VENI project financed by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).

Her PhD thesis, defended and published in 2009, concerned the making of Dutch family migration policies from 1955 through to 2005. She analyzed policy debates at both the administrative and the political level, with the aim of identifying the actors who influenced policy development, and reconstructing the perceptions, causal interpretations and value judgments which shaped their decisions. The archives of the Parliament and the Ministry of Justice made up the core source material.

Since the completion of her PhD thesis, she has analysed the making of civic integration policies in France and the Netherlands over the last decade, with a particular focus on the policy impact of the judiciary on the one hand, and party politics on the other. Also, she investigated emerging EU migration policies and their impact on domestic politics and policies. Finally, the role of norms regarding family, gender, and sexuality in the construction of ‘Usness’ and ‘Otherness’ remains central in her research.

Curriculum vitae

Saskia Bonjour defended her PhD thesis at Maastricht University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in 2009. From September 2008 until May 2009, she was employed as a researcher officer by the International Center for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) in Vienna. Shethen moved to Brussels, where she worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at the Group for research on Ethnic Relations, Migration and Equality (GERME) at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. In March 2012, she joined the Leiden University Institute for History as a postdoctoral research fellow. Development (ICMPD) in Vienna, where she worked on ethnic and racial discrimination in Europe, asylum procedures at European airports, and family migration policies in Europe.

From May 2009 until February 2012, Saskia Bonjour was employed as a post-doctoral research fellow at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, where she studied civic integration policies and family migration policies in the Netherlands, France and the European Union.

Currently, she works as a researcher at the Leiden University Institute for History, where she is engaged in a post-doctoral research poject financed by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) about the making of family migration policies in the Netherlands, France and Germany (1955-1985).

Key activities

• Integration politics
• Migration and gender
• Migration politics in Europe
• Migration politics nationally

Publications

• Bonjour S. A. (2014), The transfer of pre-departure integration requirements for family migrants among member states of the European Union, Comparative Migration Studies 2(2): 203-226. Open access: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/aup/jcms/2014/00000002/00000002/art00005
• Vink M., Bonjour S.A. & Adam I. (2014), European integration, consensus politics and family migration policy in Belgium and the Netherlands. In: Beyers J., Dumont P., Vollaard H. (Eds.) European Integration and Consensus Politics in the Low Countries. London: Routledge
• Bonjour S.A. & Scholten P. (2014), The Netherlands. In: Triandafyllidou A., Gropas R. (Eds.) European Immigration: A Sourcebook. Aldershot: Ashgate. 261-272.
• Block L. & Bonjour S.A. (2013), Fortress Europe or Europe of Rights? The Europeanisation of family migration policies in France, Germany and the Netherlands, European Journal of Migration and Law 15(2): 203-224.
• Bonjour S.A. & Vink M.P. (2013), When Europeanization backfires: the normalization of European migration politics, Acta Politica 48(4): 389-407.
• Bonjour S.A. (2013), Governing Diversity. Dutch political parties’ preferences on the role of the state in civic integration policies, Citizenship Studies 17(6-7): 837-851.
• Bonjour, Saskia/de Hart, Betty ( 2013): "A proper wife, a proper marriage. Constructions of ‘us’ and ‘them’ in Dutch family migration policy". In: European Journal of Women´s Studies.
• Bonjour, Saskia, Rea, Andrea, & Jacobs, Dirk (Eds.) (2011):The Others in Europe: Legal and Social Categorization in Context. Bruxelles: Les Editions de l’Université de Bruxelles.
• Bonjour, Saskia (2011): "The Power and Morals of Policy Makers. Reassessing the Control Gap Debate". In: International Migration Review 45(1): 89-122.
• Bonjour, Saskia (2010): "Between Integration Provision and Selection Mechanism: Party Politics, Judicial Constraints, and the Making of French and Dutch Policies of Civic Integration Abroad". In: European journal of migration and law, Vol. 12, Nr. 3, pp. 299-318.
• Bonjour, Saskia (2009): Gezin en grens. Beleidsvorming inzake gezinsmigratie in Nederland, 1955-2005, Amsterdam: Aksant.
• E. Strasser, A. Kraler, S. Bonjour & V. Bilger (2009): "Doing family. Responses to the construction of ‘the migrant family’ across Europe". In: The History of the Family, Vol. 14, Nr. 2, pp. 165-176.
• S. Bonjour (2008). "Ambtelijke onmin rond gezinnen van gastarbeiders. Beleidsvorming inzake gezinsmigratie in Nederland, 1955-1970". In: Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, Vol. 5, Nr. 1, pp. 101-127. Available online: http://www.tseg.nl/2008/1-bonjour.pdf
• S. Bonjour (2007): "Gezin en grens. Debat en beleidsvorming op het gebied van gezinsmigratie in Nederland sinds de jaren vijftig". In: Migrantenstudies, Vol. 23, Nr. 1, pp. 2-23. Available online: http://www.migrantenstudies.nl/wp-content/uploads/MS-2007-NR1-P2-23.pdf

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Leiden University Institute for History
Dr. Saskia Bonjour

Amsterdam
The Netherlands

http://www.uva.nl/profile/s.a.bonjour

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