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

Research

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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
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
3 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

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
10 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
12 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
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

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

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
24 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
25 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 & Cultural Geography
28 Journal Article
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