Marlou Schrover is Professor of Economic and Social History, with a special interest in migration and diversity. She is also LDE Professor at the Erasmus University. LDE is a partnership between Leiden University, Delft University and the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. She has over 180 publications, mostly about migration, gender, ethnicity, sexuality and class, and their intersections. She also publishes on the interaction between media and policy. She served on the PhD committee of over 45 PhD candidates, and (co-)supervises (or -vised) 21 PhD students. She is the co-founder of the interdisciplinary LDE master Governance of Migration and Diversity (GMD). She is the recipient of an NWO Veni grant, an Aspasia Grant, an NWO Vici Grant, and an NWA grant. She is co-founder and editor in chief of the Journal of Migration History.

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Marlou Schrover is Professor of Economic and Social History, with a special interest in migration and diversity. She is also LDE Professor at the Erasmus University. LDE is a partnership between Leiden University, Delft University and the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. She has over 180 publications, mostly about migration, gender, ethnicity, sexuality and class, and their intersections. She also publishes on the interaction between media and policy. She served on the PhD committee of over 45 PhD candidates, and (co-)supervises (or -vised) 21 PhD students. She is the co-founder of the interdisciplinary LDE master Governance of Migration and Diversity (GMD). She is the recipient of an NWO Veni grant, an Aspasia Grant, an NWO Vici Grant, and an NWA grant. She is co-founder and editor in chief of the Journal of Migration History.

Spreekuur / Hours

Dinsdag 13.30 - 14.30 / Tuesday 1.30 pm - 2.30 pm

Curriculum vitae

Marlou Schrover graduated in Journalism and Economic and Social History (both in Utrecht). She received her PhD at Utrecht University in 1991 for her research on labour relations. She continued to work at Utrecht University until 2001, when she moved to the ING (Instituut Nederlandse Geschiedenis) in The Hague. From January 2002 she also worked at the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam. She came to Leiden University in 2003.

Major publications

Marlou Schrover, ‘Parenting, citizenship and belonging in Dutch adoption debates 1900-1995’, Identities (2020) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2020.1757252.

Marlou Schrover and Frerik Kampman, ‘”Charter flights full of homosexuals”. The changing rights of homosexual immigrants in the Netherlands, 1945-19921’, TSEG 16: 3 (2019) 5-46.

Marlou Schrover, Teuntje Vosters and Irial Glynn, ‘NGOs and West European migration governance (1860s until Present): Introduction to a Special Issue’, Journal of Migration History 5:2 (2019) 189-217.

Marlou Schrover & Willem Schinkel (red), The Language of Inclusion and Exclusion in Immigration and Integration (New York Routledge 2014).

Immanuel Ness, Saer Maty Ba, Michael Borgolte, Donna Gabaccia, Dirk Hoerder, Alex Julca, Cecilia Menjivar, Marlou Schrover & Gregory Woolf (red), The encyclopedia of global human migration Vol. I to V. (Chichester Wiley-Blackwell 2013).

Marlou Schrover & Deirdre Moloney (eds), Gender, Migration and Categorisation: Making Distinctions between Migrants in Western Countries, 1945-2010 (Amsterdam, 2013).

Marlou Schrover and Eileen Janes Yeo (ed), Gender, Migration and the Public Sphere 1850-2005 (New York Routledge 2010).

Marlou Schrover, Joanne van der Leun, Leo Lucassen and Chris Quispel, Illegal migration and gender in a global and historical perspective (Amsterdam AUP 2008).

Herman Obdeijn en Marlou Schrover, Komen en gaan. Immigratie en emigratie in Nederland vanaf 1550 (Amsterdam Bert Bakker 2008).

Isabel Hoving, Hester Dibbits en Marlou Schrover (red.), Veranderingen van het alledaagse. Cultuur en migratie in Nederland (Den Haag 2005).

Publications