The UNDETERRED research programme is funded by the European Commission under the “Horizon-Europe” calls for projects. The aim of this research programme is to detect, reveal and deactivate unintentional racism by firstly analysing experiences of unintentional racism by young people aged 18 to 35 in the fields of housing, healthcare, employment and education. The Amsterdam study is led by Marcel Maussen and Salama Konaté.

Marriage, Migration and Sexuality: African Migrants in Interracial Same-sex Partnerships (MARMIGSEX). In many countries, the expansion of the legal definition of marriage to include same-sex unions has provided marriage migration rights to same-sex couples. MARMIGSEX examines how the newly available pathway for migration through same-sex marriage has shaped the aspirations, subjectivities, and relationships of Africans in transnational same-sex partnerships.

EQUALSTRENGTH investigates cumulative and structural forms of discrimination, outgroup prejudice and hate crimes against ethnic, racial and religious minorities from a cross-setting and intersectional perspective. It is a consortium of ten international partners, funded through a Horizon Europe grant. The UvA team consists of Dr. Eva Zschirnt and Dr. Bram Lancee.

Many families struggle to find high-quality care at an affordable price. One solution is to relocate their elderly to a different country where the cost of care is lower. Relocating Care studies care for German-speaking elderly in Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary. This project is led by Dr. Kristine Krause.

The RIGHTS project seeks to understand how the rights of low skilled migrant workers are shaped by origin and destination states, interstate dialogues, and the involvement of civil society and international organisations. The UvA team is led by Dr. Evelyn Ersanili.

The right to family migration is highly contested for families which deviate from the norm, such as same-sex families or polygamous families. The Strange(r) Families project analyses how migration law and politics deal with different kinds of families asking to be allowed to live together in Europe. The project is led by Dr. Saskia Bonjour.

The China White project explores the reconfiguration of whiteness in China, focusing on privileges, precariousness, and racialized performances. With the rise of China’s economy, more and more white westerners are moving to China for business and job opportunities. This project examines how the western notion of whiteness is dis-assembled and re-assembled in the new historical context of changing power relations between China and major western countries. The principal investigator is Dr. Shanshan Lan.

The GEMM Study is a cross-national harmonized field experiment on hiring discrimination. It employs an innovative field-experimental research design that allows for the comparative analysis of hiring discrimination across 53 ethnic groups in Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, Norway and the Netherlands. The project is led by Dr. Bram Lancee.

ADMIGOV is a Horizon cooperation of 11 universities, two research centers and one NGO in eight European and non-European countries. The objective of the project is to develop indicators of good migration governance, to give states a tool to work according to UN norms, and synchronize policy on paper and policy in practice. It is led by Dr. Anja van Heelsum (UvA).

The Eur-Asian Border Lab aims to catalyse trans-regional synergies and intellectual conversations among scholars studying borders and bordering across different world regions. We test theoretical ideas in diverse empirical settings and apply insights from academically peripheral regions to the heart of mainstream theorization of border studies. We understand bordering as an increasingly complicated and nuanced conceptual process at the core of many critical developments and practices worldwide. The UvA team leader is Dr. Tina Harris.

EMIC brings together researchers from the Universities of Gothenburg and Amsterdam to study the EU externalization of migration policy in Africa. The project explores how programs in the European Trust Fund for Africa have been implemented and determine who has the power and responsibility to shape its outcomes in Africa. The UvA team consists of Dr. Darshan Vigneswaran, Dr. Polly Pallister-Wilkins, and Dr. Saskia Bonjour.

When there is discontent, why do some people protest while others cross borders? To answer this question MOBILISE looks at Argentina, Poland, Morocco, and Ukraine and migrants from these countries in Germany, the UK and Spain. MOBILISE is funded under ORA with partners in France, the UK and Germany. Dr. Evelyn Ersanilli is the Dutch Co-Investigator.

The REINTEGRATE project is a 5-year study (2021-2026) funded by the European Research Council under a Starting Grant. The project develops a conceptual understanding of reintegration governance, its implementation and effectiveness, and a new theoretical framework of how different forms of reintegration governance shape returnees' reintegration outcomes across an in-depth comparative analysis of four diverse states: Nepal, Nigeria, Serbia, and the Philippines. The project is rooted in the nexus between policies and migrant agencies and aims to illustrate returnees' role in their reintegration outcomes. The REINTEGRATE project includes two senior researchers, two postdocs, and one Ph.D. student. The UvA team leader is Dr. Katie Kuschminder.

Given demographic, political, and social developments, the demand for transnational senior care services will continue to grow across Europe.  However, its sustainability is questionable. In the collaborative research project CareOrg we investigate how the ways in which transnational care is organized affect Central and Eastern European countries (including Ukraine) which have become sending, receiving and transit contexts. How is transnational care shaped, formalized, professionalized, and politicized in and across the different countries? How does it affect migrant care workers, their families, communities, labor markets, and the respective welfare states? Our research foregrounds the under-researched and under-theorized so called meso-level of transnational care organization, which includes intermediary agencies, informal and formal platforms and social media, as well as transnationally shared infrastructures. The UvA team consists of Dr. Kristine Krause and Dr. Franca van Hooren.