Dr. F.J. (Franca) van Hooren
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group: Political Economy and Transnational Governance
Visiting address
- Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
Postal address
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Postbus 15578
1001 NB Amsterdam
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Profile
I am Associate Professor at the Political Science Department of the University of Amsterdam, where I am a member of the research group Political Economy and Transnational Governance. My research concentrates on the politics of care work, social policy, gender and migration.
From 2025 till 2030 I am principle investigator of the project “Breaking the Silence: Politics, Workers’ Rights and the Future of Senior Care in Europe” funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO-VIDI). It investigates under which conditions political decisions are made that improve working conditions in senior care and how care workers become politically active.
Previously, I was Programme Director of the Social Science Research Master (2021-2024) and co-leader of the AISSR Programme Group Political Economy and Transnational Governance (2020-2022). Before working at the University of Amsterdam, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and at the Univeristy of Bremen. I obtained my PhD from the European University Institute in Florence.
Among other things, I have studied the role of and political responses to migrant workers in social care in different European welfare states; welfare state responses to economic crisis; the politics of domestic work policy in the Netherlands; and the post-colonial inequalities in social rights of former colonial citizens. More information can be found on my personal website and an up-to-date list of my publications can also be found on Google Scholar.
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Publications
- refereed (15)
- academic (5)
- popular scientific (2)
- conference contributions (2)
- recognitions (7)
- supervised theses (1)
2025
Westra, E., & van Hooren, F. (2025). Social rights in a post-colonial welfare state: Revisiting ‘universality’ and ‘inclusivity’. Journal of European Social Policy, 35(2), 130-142. https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287241297540 [details]
2024
- van Hooren, F., & Vis, B. (2024). The Evolving Dutch Welfare State. In S. de Lange, T. Louwerse, P. 't Hart, & C. van Ham (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Dutch Politics (pp. 74-88). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198875499.013.5 [details]
2023
- van Hooren, F., & Ledoux, C. (2023). The limits of social investment and the resilience of long-term care. European Journal of Social Security, 25(2), 196-216. https://doi.org/10.1177/13882627231176134 [details]
2021
- van Hooren, F., Ledoux, C., Apitzsch, B., & Eleveld, A. (2021). Inclusive Advocacy? Trade-Union Activity in Support of the Rights of Domestic Workers in Continental Europe. Politique Européenne, 74(4), 108-134. https://doi.org/10.3917/poeu.074.0108 [details]
2018
- Eleveld, A., & Van Hooren, F. (2018). The Governmentalization of the Trade Union and the Potential of Union-Based Resistance: The Case of Undocumented Migrant Domestic Workers in the Netherlands Making Rights Claims. Social & Legal Studies, 27(5), 596-615. https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663917725145 [details]
- Kramer, D., Sampson Thierry, J., & van Hooren, F. (2018). Responding to free movement: quarantining mobile union citizens in European welfare states. Journal of European Public Policy, 25(10), 1501-1521. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2018.1488882 [details]
- van Hooren, F. J. (2018). Intersecting Social Divisions and the Politics of Differentiation: Understanding Exclusionary Domestic Work Policy in the Netherlands. Social Politics, 25(1), 92–117. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxx019 [details]
2017
- Soentken, M., van Hooren, F., & Rice, D. (2017). The Impact of Social Investment Reforms on Income and Activation in the Netherlands. In A. Hemerijck (Ed.), The Uses of Social Investment (pp. 235-243). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198790488.003.0021 [details]
2014
- Starke, P., Kaasch, A., & van Hooren, F. (2014). Political Parties and Social Policy Responses to Global Economic Crises: Constrained Partisanship in Mature Welfare States. Journal of Social Policy, 43(2), 225-246. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279413000986 [details]
- van Hooren, F., Kaasch, A., & Starke, P. (2014). The shock routine: economic crisis and the nature of social policy responses. Journal of European Public Policy, 21(4), 605-623. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2014.887757
2013
- Starke, P., Kaasch, A., & van Hooren, F. (2013). The welfare state as crisis manager: Explaining the diversity of policy responses to economic crisis. (Transformations of the State). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137314840
2012
- van Hooren, F. J. (2012). Varieties of migrant care work: Comparing patterns of migrant labour in social care. Journal of European Social Policy, 22(2), 133-147. https://doi.org/10.1177/0958928711433654
- van Hooren, F. J. (2012). Weinig vreemde handen aan de Nederlandse bedden. B en M : Tijdschrift voor Beleid, Politiek en Maatschappij, 39(1), 43-58. http://www.boomlemmatijdschriften.nl/tijdschrift/benm/2012/1/benm_1389-0069_2012_039_001_004.pdf
- van Hooren, F., & Becker, U. (2012). One Welfare State, Two Care Regimes: Understanding Developments in Child and Elderly Care Policies in the Netherlands. Social Policy & Administration, 46(1), 83-107. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9515.2011.00808.x [details]
2008
- van Hooren, F. J. (2008). Welfare provision beyond national boundaries. The politics of migration and elderly care in Italy. Rivista Italiana di Politiche Pubbliche, 3(3), 87-113. https://www.rivisteweb.it/download/article/10.1483/28604
2019
- van Hooren, F., Apitzsch, B., & Ledoux, C. (2019). The Politics of Care Work and Migration. In A. Weinar, S. Bonjour, & L. Zhyznomirska (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of Migration in Europe (pp. 363-373). (Routledge International Handbooks). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315512853-34 [details]
2017
- van Hooren, F. (2017). De verzorgingsstaat onder druk. In P. van Praag (Ed.), Politicologie en de veranderende politiek (pp. 77-96). Amsterdam University Press. [details]
- van Hooren, F. (2017). The Welfare State under Pressure. In P. van Praag (Ed.), Political Science and Changing Politics (pp. 71-88). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1zqrmq0.7 [details]
2014
- van Hooren, F. (2014). Migrant care work in Europe: Variety and institutional determinants. In M. León (Ed.), The transformation of care in European societies (pp. 62-82). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137326515_4 [details]
2010
- van Hooren, F. J. (2010). When families need immigrants: The exceptional position of migrant domestic workers and care assistants in Italian immigration policy. Bulletin of Italian Politics, 2(2), 21-38. http://www.glasgowheart.org/media/media_194307_en.pdf
2023
- van Hooren, F. J. (Author). (2023). Niet zo bedoeld, wel zo gemaakt. De ideologische wortels van het toeslagenschandaal. Web publication or website, De nederlandse boekengids. https://www.nederlandseboekengids.com/20231120-franca-van-hooren/
- van Hooren, F. J., & Westra, E. (2023). Wanneer volgt de echte reparatie van het ‘AOW-gat’ van Surinaamse Nederlanders? NRC. https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/05/08/wanneer-volgt-de-echte-reparatie-van-het-aow-gat-van-surinaamse-nederlanders-a4164120
2016
- van Hooren, F. J., Eleveld, A., & Günther, S. (2016). The Precarious Unionization of Undocumented Migrant Domestic Workers in the Netherlands: Understanding Opportunities and Constraints. Paper presented at ISA Forum of Sociology, Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
2015
- van Hooren, F. J., & Soentken, M. (2015). A Welfare State for Whom? the Impact of Social Investment Reforms on Income and Activation in the Netherlands. Paper presented at 22nd International Conference of Europeanists (22th CES Conference), Paris, .
Prize / grant
- van Hooren, F. (2024). NWO Vidi grant: Breaking the silence: politics, workers’ rights and the future of elderly care in Europe.
Talk / presentation
- van Hooren, F. (speaker) (2016). Migrants working in personal and home support for old people, ESN Working Group on Ageing and Care.
- van Hooren, F. (speaker) (2016). The politics of domestic work in the Netherlands, Platform 189, Decent Work for Domestic Workers, Rotterdam.
- Becker, U. (speaker) & van Hooren, F. J. (speaker) (17-9-2009). Explaining contradictory developments in child and elderly care policies in the Netherlands, paper presented at the conference on The future of the welfare state: paths of social policy innovation between constraints and opportunities, Urbino (It.).
Others
- van Hooren, F. (participant) (10-7-2016 - 14-7-2016). ISA Forum of Sociology, Vienna, Vienna (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
- van Hooren, F. (organiser) & Burgoon, B. M. (organiser) (5-6-2015). Political Economy and the New Welfare State, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
- van Hooren, F. (chair) (2015). 22nd International Conference of Europeanists (22th CES Conference), Paris (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
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Westra, E., & van Hooren, F. (2025). Social rights in a post-colonial welfare state: Revisiting ‘universality’ and ‘inclusivity’. Journal of European Social Policy, 35(2), 130-142.