Maarten P. Vink holds the Chair of Political Science with a focus on Political Sociology at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. In Maastricht he is Co-Director of the Maastricht Center for Citizenship, Migration and Development (MACIMIDE) and is also a ROA Fellow at the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA). Vink currently leads the research project “Migrant Life Course and Legal Status Transition (MiLifeStatus)”funded by a Consolidator Grant of the European Research Council (2016- 2021). He is Willy Brandt Guest Professor at the Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM) at Malmö University for the academic year 2017-18. Vink is Co-Director of the Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT), a web platform that provides user-friendly open access to a major worldwide collection of data and analyses on citizenship laws and access to franchise for academic researchers and policy communities. In addition he is joint coordinator of the Standing Committee “Migration, Citizenship and Political Participation” of the international IMISCOE network on International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion. Vink recently co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Citizenship (Oxford University Press, 2017) and is author of various books, articles and chapters on citizenship and migration in comparative perspective.
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