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 in Context’ led by Prof. dr P.A. Dykstra, focusing on the social implications of growing old in a migration context. Fokkema has extensive experience with analyzing large-scale cross-national surveys (e.g. SHARE, GGS, TIES) and has done fieldwork among older migrants in Italy and Morocco. Fokkema holds a PhD in Economics from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and has published in leading academic journals (e.g. The Journals of Gerontology, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Population, Space and Place, European Journal of Ageing, and Ageing and Society).
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Expertise
Migration processes
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Migration drivers
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Migration forms
Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)
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Socio-cultural consequences
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Socio-economic consequences
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Transversal consequences
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Legal-political consequences
Migration governance
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Immigrant policy and law
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Qualitative research
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Quantitative research
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UN Countries
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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 |
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 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Drivers of Loneliness among Older Refugees
| Authors | Vincent Horn, Vincent Horn, Tineke Fokkema, ... |
| Year | 2023 |
| Journal Name | Journal of Refugee Studies |
| Citations (WoS) | 2 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
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 |
Editors' introduction-older refugees: Who are they and how are they faring?
| Authors | Vincent Horn, Tineke Fokkema |
| Year | 2025 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Conducting Empirical Research With Older Migrants: Methodological and Ethical Issues
| Authors | Başak Bilecen, Tineke Fokkema |
| Year | 2022 |
| Journal Name | The Gerontologist | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Older migrants and loneliness: scanning the field and looking forward
| Authors | Tineke Fokkema, Ruxandra Oana Ciobanu |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | European Journal of Ageing |
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 |
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 |
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 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
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 |
The effects of integration and transnational ties on international return migration intentions
| Authors | Hein de Haas, Tineke Fokkema |
| Year | 2011 |
| Journal Name | Demographic Research |
Le rimesse delle seconde generazioni in Europa: altruismo o interesse personale?
| Authors | Elena Ambrosetti, Eralba Cela, Tineke Fokkema |
| Year | 2014 |
| Journal Name | MONDI MIGRANTI |
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 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
Big Cities, Big Problems: Reason for the Elderly to Move?
| Authors | Tineke Fokkema, Jenny Gierveld, Peter Nijkamp |
| Year | 1996 |
| Journal Name | Urban Studies |
New frontiers in international retirement migration
| Authors | Russell King, Eralba Cela, Tineke Fokkema |
| Year | 2021 |
| Journal Name | Ageing and Society | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
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 |
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 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
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 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
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 |
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 |
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 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
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 |
“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 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
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 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
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 |
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 |
‘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 |
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 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |
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 | Taxonomy | View Taxonomy Associations |