Tineke Fokkema is a Senior Researcher at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI-KNAW), in the Families & Generations group, and endowed professor Ageing, Families and Migration at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Within IMISCOE, she is coordinator of the Standing Committee ‘Older Migrants’. She is an internationally regarded specialist on ageing, intergenerational solidarity, migration, and their intersection. In 2014-2018 she was involved in the ERC Research project ‘Families...
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Roles

  • Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI-KNAW)

    Research Institute, The Hague, Netherlands
    Senior Researcher

  • Erasmus University Rotterdam

    University, Rotterdam, Netherlands
    Professor

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Unveiling the missing pieces: Addressing research gaps in tackling loneliness among older migrants

Authors Tineke Fokkema, Tineke Fokkema
Year 2024
Journal Name International Migration
1 Journal Article

Editors’ introduction—older refugees: Who are they and how are they faring?

Authors Vincent Horn, Vincent Horn, Tineke Fokkema, ...
Year 2025
Journal Name Journal of Refugee Studies
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2 Journal Article

Drivers of Loneliness among Older Refugees

Authors Vincent Horn, Vincent Horn, Tineke Fokkema, ...
Year 2023
Journal Name Journal of Refugee Studies
Citations (WoS) 2
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3 Journal Article

The Importance of Peers: Assimilation Patterns among Second-generation Turkish Immigrants in Western Europe

Authors Syed Ali, Tineke Fokkema
Year 2014
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Citations (WoS) 7
4 Journal Article

Editors' introduction-older refugees: Who are they and how are they faring?

Authors Vincent Horn, Tineke Fokkema
Year 2025
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5 Journal Article

Conducting Empirical Research With Older Migrants: Methodological and Ethical Issues

Authors Başak Bilecen, Tineke Fokkema
Year 2022
Journal Name The Gerontologist
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6 Journal Article

Older migrants and loneliness: scanning the field and looking forward

Authors Tineke Fokkema, Ruxandra Oana Ciobanu
Year 2021
Journal Name European Journal of Ageing
7 Journal Article

The impact of migration on intergenerational solidarity types

Authors Helen Baykara-Krumme, Tineke Fokkema
Year 2018
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Citations (WoS) 6
8 Journal Article

Giving from the Heart or from the Ego? Motives behind Remittances of the Second Generation in Europe

Authors Tineke Fokkema, Eralba Cela, Elena Ambrosetti
Year 2013
Journal Name International Migration Review
Citations (WoS) 5
9 Journal Article

What protects older Romanians in Switzerland from loneliness? A life-course perspective

Authors Ruxandra Oana Ciobanu, Tineke Fokkema
Year 2021
Journal Name European Journal of Ageing
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10 Journal Article

The role of religion in protecting older Romanian migrants from loneliness

Authors Ruxandra Oana Ciobanu, Tineke Fokkema
Year 2016
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Citations (WoS) 4
11 Journal Article

The effects of integration and transnational ties on international return migration intentions

Authors Hein de Haas, Tineke Fokkema
Year 2011
Journal Name Demographic Research
12 Journal Article

Le rimesse delle seconde generazioni in Europa: altruismo o interesse personale?

Authors Elena Ambrosetti, Eralba Cela, Tineke Fokkema
Year 2014
Journal Name MONDI MIGRANTI
13 Journal Article

Immigration Policies in Italy: Their Impact on the Lives of First-Generation Moroccan and Egyptian Migrants

Authors Angela Paparusso, Tineke Fokkema, Elena Ambrosetti
Year 2016
Journal Name JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION AND INTEGRATION
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14 Journal Article

Big Cities, Big Problems: Reason for the Elderly to Move?

Authors Tineke Fokkema, Jenny Gierveld, Peter Nijkamp
Year 1996
Journal Name Urban Studies
15 Journal Article

New frontiers in international retirement migration

Authors Russell King, Eralba Cela, Tineke Fokkema
Year 2021
Journal Name Ageing and Society
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16 Journal Article

Return intentions over the life course: Evidence on the effects of life events from a longitudinal sample of first- and second-generation Turkish migrants in Germany

Authors Giulia Bettin, Eralba Cela, Tineke Fokkema
Year 2018
Journal Name Demographic Research
17 Journal Article

Variation in transnationalism among Eastern European migrants in Italy: the role of duration of residence and integration

Authors Eralba Cela, Tineke Fokkema, Elena Ambrosetti
Year 2013
Journal Name Southeast European and Black Sea Studies
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18 Journal Article

International retirement and later-life migrants in the Marche region, Italy: materialities of landscape, 'home', lifestyle and consumption

Authors Russell King, Eralba Cela, Tineke Fokkema, ...
Year 2021
Journal Name Ageing and Society
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19 Journal Article

The Marche: Italy's new frontier for international retirement migration

Authors Russell King, Eralba Cela, Gabriele Morettini, ...
Year 2019
Journal Name Population, Space and Place
20 Journal Article

Ageing as a migrant: vulnerabilities, agency and policy implications

Authors Ruxandra Oana Ciobanu, Mihaela Nedelcu, Tineke Fokkema
Year 2016
Journal Name Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
Citations (WoS) 16
21 Journal Article

Subjective well‐being of older migrants in the Netherlands: A conceptual and methodological discussion

Authors Nina Conkova, Nina Conkova, Tineke Fokkema, ...
Year 2023
Journal Name International Migration
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22 Journal Article

Comparing generations of migrants’ transnational behaviour: the role of the transnational convoy and integration

Authors Jolien Klok, Theo van Tilburg, Tineke Fokkema, ...
Year 2020
Journal Name Comparative Migration Studies
23 Journal Article

“Left Like Stones in the Middle of the Road”: Narratives of Aging Alone and Coping Strategies in Rural Albania and Bulgaria

Authors Nina Conkova, Julie Vullnetari, Russell King, ...
Year 2019
Journal Name The Journals of Gerontology: Series B
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24 Journal Article

Return Migration as Failure or Success?

Authors Hein de Haas, Tineke Fokkema, Mohamed Fassi Fihri
Year 2014
Journal Name JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION AND INTEGRATION
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25 Journal Article

The effect of remittances on emigration intentions in Egypt, Morocco, and Turkey

Authors Hendrik P. van Dalen, George Groenewold, Tineke Fokkema
Year 2005
Journal Name Population Studies
Citations (WoS) 40
26 Journal Article

The Link Between the Transnational Behaviour and Integration of the Second Generation in European and American Cities: <i>Does the context of reception matter?</i>

Authors Tineke Fokkema, Laurence Lessard-Phillips, James D. Bachmeier, ...
Year 2012
Journal Name NORDIC JOURNAL OF MIGRATION RESEARCH
27 Journal Article

‘We love it here and there’: Turkish Alevi older migrants’ belonging to places

Authors Jolien Klok, Theo van Tilburg, Tineke Fokkema, ...
Year 2022
Journal Name Social &amp; Cultural Geography
28 Journal Article

Neighbourhood Ethnic Density, Local Language Skills, and Loneliness among Older Migrants—A Population-Based Study on Russian Speakers in Finland

Authors Laura Kemppainen, Teemu Kemppainen, Tineke Fokkema, ...
Year 2023
Journal Name International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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29 Journal Article

The dimensions and degree of second-generation incorporation in US and European cities: A comparative study of inclusion and exclusion

Authors Frank D Bean, Susan K Brown, James D Bachmeier, ...
Year 2012
Journal Name International Journal of Comparative Sociology
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30 Journal Article
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