Rinus
Penninx

Rinus Penninx Emeritus Professor of the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies of the University of Amsterdam, Private: Voorwillense weg 135, 2806 ZG Gouda, The Netherlands. Mob. **31628920466 E-mail: penninxr@xs4all.nl Biographical Summary Rinus Penninx has been Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Amsterdam from 1993 till 2011. He founded the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES) at the University of Amsterdam in March 1993 and served as the Institute’s Director until October 2005. From 1999 to 2009, he has also acted as European Co-Chair of International Metropolis. In April 2004, he became Coordinator of the European Commission-funded Network of Excellence IMISCOE (International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe). He retired officially in September 2011 from the University of Amsterdam, but continued some activities at the University. He was the coordinator of the IMISCOE Research Network from 2009 till April 2014. For many years, Rinus Penninx has written on international migration, the settlement of migrants and related policies. ‘Ethnic Minorities’ (1979), his report for the Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR), formed the starting point for integration policies in the Netherlands. From 1978 to 1988, he worked as a senior staff member in the Research and Development Department of the Dutch Ministry of Welfare, Public Health and Culture, with an emphasis on research relating to the migration and integration of immigrants in the Netherlands. Major publications in English include: Newcomers: Immigrants and their Descendants in the Netherlands 1550-1995 (Lucassen & Penninx 1997b), Immigrant Integration: The Dutch Case (Vermeulen & Penninx 2000a), Trade Unions, Immigration and Immigrants in Europe 1960-1993 (Penninx & Roosblad 2000b), Western Europe and its Islam (Rath et al. 2001), Citizenship in European Cities (Penninx et al. 2004a), The Dynamics of International Migration and Settlement in Europe: A State of the Art (Penninx et al. 2006a), Migration Policymaking in Europe; The dynamics of Actors and Contexts in Past and Present (Zincone, Borkert & Penninx 2011); Integrating Immigrants in Europe: Research-Policy Dialogues (Scholten, Entzinger, Penninx & Verbeek 2015) and Integration processes and policies in Europe. Contexts, Levels, Actors (Garcés –Mascareñas & Penninx (2016). His most recent book publication is Trade Unions and Migrant Workers (with Stefania Marino and Judith Roosblad), Edward Elgar 2017. Personal background Rinus, who is officially known as Marinus Johannes Antonius Penninx, was born on 11 January 1948 in Erp, the Netherlands. Since 1976, he has been happily married to Margriet Carlier. They have two sons. Education June 1998: PhD cum laude in Geography, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 1973: Masters in Cultural Anthropology, State University of Leiden, the Netherlands. 1969: Bachelors in Cultural Anthropology, Catholic University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. 1960-1966: Classical Gymnasium Alpha, Weert, the Netherlands. Work and research 2009-2014: Coordinator, IMISCOE Research Network (International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe). 2004-2009: Coordinator, Network of Excellence IMISCOE (International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe). 1999-2009: European Co-Chair, International Metropolis project. 1993-2011: Professor of Ethnic Studies, Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 1993-2006: Director, Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. As director of IMES, Rinus Penninx has initiated numerous interdisciplinary and cross-national comparative research projects. Examples include the interdisciplinary research project on the rise and decline of the Turkish garment industry in Amsterdam, the demographic reconstruction of the Netherlands’ population of Jewish descent and the cross-national comparative research on The Integration of the European Second Generation (TIES) project. Rinus also played a significant role in the implementation of the UNESCO-funded Multicultural Policies and Modes of Citizenship in Europe project (MPMC) (Penninx et al. 2004a) and the Cities for Local Integration Policies project. Rinus has served as a consultant and a contributing researcher for various international organisations such as the Council of Europe (Penninx 1984b and 2005a), the European Commission (2005c), the OECD (Rindoks et al 2006a), the UNECE (2005b) and UNESCO (2005d) 1990-1993: Professor of Ethnic Studies and Minority Questions, Vrije Universiteit (VU), Amsterdam, the Netherlands. This position involved initiation of a number of large-scale interdisciplinary projects including: a study on the impact of immigration on Dutch society, which was carried out in cooperation with demographers and economists (Penninx et al. 1993); and a cross-national, comparative study on the institutionalisation of Islam, which was conducted by a team of lawyers and social scientists (see Rath et al. 2001 for the English version). 1988-1993: Assistant Professor, Department of Social Research Methodology, Vrije Universiteit (VU), Amsterdam, the Netherlands. 1978-1988: Senior staff member, Research and Development Department, Dutch Ministry of Welfare, Public Health and Culture in Rijswijk/The Hague. With an emphasis on research relating to migration and ethnic minorities in the Netherlands, this position allowed Rinus to co-write the Dutch version of a monograph on four centuries of immigration and integration in the Netherlands; the work was subsequently revised and also published in English (Lucassen & Penninx 1997b). Rinus also authored a number of commissioned reports for the Council of Europe (1984b) and the OECD (Penninx 1981-1984), inter alia. He published his PhD dissertation on the state of the art of minority formation in the Netherlands (Penninx 1988b). 1978: Researcher on the position of immigrants and ethnic minorities in the Netherlands and related policies, commissioned by the Scientific Council for Government Policy in The Hague (Penninx 1979). 1974-1977: Research fellow, Netherlands University Foundation for International Cooperation (NUFFIC), The Hague. Interdisciplinary research on the demographic, social and economic consequences of emigration for the regions of origin, particularly in Turkey (Penninx et al.1976, 1978, 1982). 1971: University of Amsterdam doctoral candidate conducting research in Ben Arous on the economic and social effects of emigration for this suburb of Tunis, commissioned by the Bureau de l’Aménagement du Territoire de Grand Tunis (see: Penninx 1973a).