I am Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam.
My research interests include immigrants' economic disadvantage and integration, stratification and inequality, intergroup attitudes and intergroup relations.
Positive and negative contact and attitudes towards the religious out-group: Testing the contact hypothesis in conflict and non-conflict regions of Indonesia and the Philippines, 2017
with Peer Scheepers and Carl Sterkens
Social Science Research
Political action in conflict and non-conflict regions in Indonesia: The role of religious and national identifications, 2017
with Borja Martinovic
Political Psychology
Religious Identification and Interreligious Contact in Indonesia and the Philippines: The Mediating Roles of Perceived Group Threat and Social Dominance Orientation and the Moderating Role of Context, 2016
with Peer Scheepers and Carl Sterkens
European Journal of Social Psychology 46: 700–715
Interreligious Contact, Perceived Group Threat, and Perceived Discrimination: Predicting Negative Attitudes among Religious Minorities and Majorities in Indonesia, 2015
with Peer Scheepers and Carl Sterkens
Social Psychology Quarterly 78: 102-126
The Conditional Returns to Origin-Country Human Capital among Turkish and Moroccan Immigrants in Belgium, 2014
with Frank van Tubergen
Social Science Research 46: 130-141
Social Contacts and the Economic Performance of Immigrants: A Panel Study of Immigrants in Germany, 2012
with Barry R. Chiswick, Frank van Tubergen and Tanja van der Lippe
International Migration Review 46: 680–709
The Role of Social Contacts in the Employment Status of Immigrants: A Panel Study of Immigrants in Germany, 2011
with Frank van Tubergen and Tanja van der Lippe
International Sociology 26: 95-122
The Impact of Origin and Host Country Schooling on the Economic Performance of Immigrants, 2009
with Frank van Tubergen
Social Forces 88: 893-915
Immigrant Self-Employment: Testing Hypotheses about the Role of Origin and Destination Capital, 2009
with Frank van Tubergen and Tanja van der Lippe
Work and Occupations 36: 181-208
Interreligious Contact and Out-group Trust: Findings from Conflict and Non-conflict Regions in Indonesia and the Philippines, 2015
with Peer Scheepers and Carl Sterkens
in: Carl Sterkens and Paul Vermeer (eds.) Religion, migration and conflict, LIT Verlag.
Latent conflict between ethno-religious groups in the Philippines, 2015
with Menandro S. Abanes and Peer Scheepers
in: Carl Sterkens and Paul Vermeer (eds.) Religion, migration and conflict, LIT Veralg.
The Economic Performance of Immigrants. The Role of Human and Social Capital, 2011
Utrecht: Department of Sociology/ICS.
Ethno-religious Conflicts in Indonesia. Documentation of surveys on ethno-religious identity and latent intergroup conflict, 2014
with Carl Sterkens, Tri Subagya, Cahyo Pamungkas, Paula Thijs, and Peer Scheepers
DANS Data Guide 12, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
Ethno-religious Conflicts in the Philippines. Documentation of surveys on ethno-religious identity and latent intergroup conflict, 2014
with Carl Sterkens, Menandro Abanes, Agnes Camacho, Paula Thijs, and Peer Scheepers
DANS Data Guide 13, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
Mind the gap: the impact of public policies and the gender-egalitarian climate on cross-national differences in gender and ethnic labor market inequalities,
with Stephanie Steinmetz
Cross-national differences in the economic integration of immigrants with different admission statuses –examining the progressive dilemma thesis for 18 European countries
with Stephanie Steinmetz
The labor force participation and working hours of immigrant women in Europe: the influence of individual- and macro-level gender-role attitudes and religiosity
with Katrin Muller
Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Role Values: The Role of Ethnicity and Gender,
with Matthijs Kalmijn
Immigrant Adolescents’ Ethnic and Majority Group Identification: The Causal Influence of Bilingualism, Family, and Peers,
with Frederique van Spijker
Religious identification and support for violence. A study of Muslims and Christians in Indonesia and the Philippines,
with Peer Scheepers and Carl Sterkens