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 sheworked 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.

Teaching 

In the first semester of 2014-2015, Saskia Bonjour teaches the course 'Gender and Ethnicity in Western and (Post) Colonial History'.

• Buitenhof: in debat met EU Parlementariër Wim van de Camp over de vluchtelingenproblematiek aan de Europese zuidgrenzen.

• IKON, De Andere Wereld: debat over 'arbeidsmigratie toen en nu'

• Hilary Seminar Series 2014: "Fortress Europe or Europe of Rights?" Audio Podcast of lecture at Oxford Department of International Development

• "Wankelt Fort Europa?" Video van publieksdebat in Nieuwspoort, ingeleid door Saskia Bonjour

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