Han Entzinger is Emeritus Professor of Migration and Integration Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Earlier, he held a similar chair at Utrecht University. He also worked, inter alia, at the Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR), a think tank close to the Dutch Prime Minister, and at the UN’s International Labour Office in Geneva. Het studied sociology (with economics) at the Universities of Leiden, Rotterdam, and Strasbourg and obtained his PhD at Leiden.
Over several decades he has become a specialist on migration, integration, and diversity, particularly from a policy perspective. He has published extensively on these issues, often based on his own research. He has led a variety of EU- and nationally-funded research projects and advised national and local governments, NGOs, and European and international organisations. He has published or edited 19 books and numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in several languages. His latest books include Human Rights Law and Evidence-Based Policy: The Impact of the EU’s Fundamental Rights Agency; London/New York: Routledge, 2020 (with R. Byrne, Eds.), Migratie; Amsterdam University Press, 2018, and Integrating Immigrants in Europe. Research-Policy Dialogues; Dordrecht: Springer, 2015 (with P. Scholten, R. Penninx & S. Verbeek, Eds.)
He is a former chair of the Research Committee on Migration of the International Sociological Association, and of the Board of Directors of IMISCOE, the European network of migration research centres. From 2013-2018 he was vice-chair and chair of the Scientific Committee of the European Union’s Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA), based in Vienna. He served on the Advisory Boards of research institutes in various European countries, such as the (former) Commission for Racial Equality in London, the Berlin Social Science Research Centre (WZB), and the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague. Recently, he chaired the Special Committee that advised the Dutch government on the attainment targets in the mandatory civic integration tests for newly arrived immigrants. He is also a research fellow of the Centre for Migration Law at Radboud University in Nijmegen, where he currently lives.
