Professor Dr. Marcel Lubbers

Biography

Marcel Lubbers holds the chair in Interdisciplinary Social Science, focusing on the relations between groups and cultures. His background is in political sociology, where he researches issues related to social cohesion, the impact of immigration, nationalism, Euroscepticism, and voting behavior. From the perspective of immigrants, he studies how they navigate new societies and the reception climate of the receiving society. Additionally, Marcel leads the European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER) and is a board member of the Foundation for Electoral Research in the Netherlands (SKON), where he organizes the Dutch Parliamentary Election Survey. His main research interests lie in Migration and Societal Change, and he represents the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Science at Utrecht University. Furthermore, he chairs the Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS).

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