✨Very happy to see my paper "Attitudinal ambivalence toward multiculturalism" out on @jeppjournal.bsky.social ! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/8 🧵

✨Accepted for Publication ✨ "Surveying Citizens with a Migration Background - A Quantitative Study of Identification versus Categorization" Coming soon in the journal Survey Research Methods. Read the pre-print here: doi.org/10.31219/osf...

Looking forward to this, please come, it's hybrid 👍

✨ We are organising a panel at IMISCOE 2026 in Girona about the Integration Paradox. Want to join? Please apply! Online and in-person are both possible. ✨

10 years after Merkel's "Wir Schaffen Das" Did it shift voters to the right? Well, this is hard to say. Immigration attitudes remain remarkably stable, and my research shows immigration attitudes only partially predict whether people vote for the AfD. 🧵https://doi.org/10.55271/pp0046

Ilan Pappé says that the one boycot that could really help end the genocide in Gaza is if UEFA bans Israel. Might this be one step into that direction? www.aljazeera.com/sports/2025/...

In case anyone still thinks that the war in Gaza is about the hostages. It is about strengthening colonial power over the Palestinians. Just like with the attacks on Gaza, colonial power and control are what the state of Israel is aiming for.

I will, of course, repost any post that calls me brilliant 😅 But also, please come to this seminar on 19 Sep on immigrant belonging and well-being 💪 In-person or online 🌟

The people have very different ideas about Gaza than the government and politicians, and the frustration is growing. This disconnect needs to be bridged by some real action by governments. If seeing people starve isn't enough, maybe potential democratic backlash is? People want the war to end!

For all the people who didn't have time to read my dissertation back-to-back: (I'm guessing that's everyone 😄) The journal PLC published a 1000-word summary I wrote of my dissertation, with a review from my favourite author of my PhD: Dr. LaFleur Stephens-Dougan from Pinceton University. Enjoy!

Have been hanging out with the @equalstrength.bsky.social crowd at #IMISCOE this week. @elystromberg.bsky.social made an overview of the EqualStrength-related presentations 👇

We were lucky to be part of this workshop presenting our paper with @mfreino.bsky.social @heypaolo.bsky.social @stefaniesprong.bsky.social @distasioval.bsky.social and the rest of the @equalstrength.bsky.social -consortium. Stay tuned for more to come 🤓

Mamdani's victory shows that foregrounding socio-economically left-wing agenda can win elections, even when the calculations of the incumbent lead them to a more centrist strategy. Copying each other and following wealthy donors isn't what voters want, even when political strategists think it is.

Over de motie-Piri en het congres van GroenLinks-PvdA: ✨🌟 Discursieve backlash is niet hetzelfde als electorale backlash 🌟✨ Dat bleek maar weer uit de stemming op het congres, en wie weet blijkt dat ook bij de verkiezingen in oktober. doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

@sbvanoosten.bsky.social and @stefaniesprong.bsky.social doing a great job presenting results on discrimination in access to childcare in 9 European countries from our @equalstrength.bsky.social project at the Migration & Societal Change conference @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social.

Had a wonderful time presenting our work from the @equalstrength.bsky.social -project with @heypaolo.bsky.social @mfreino.bsky.social @stefaniesprong.bsky.social et al. on the Integration Paradox #DIP. Thanks for organising @chlolv.bsky.social @nellageurts.bsky.social @genoni.bsky.social.

Excited for this to happen! Diving #DIP into unravelling the integration paradox in our research workshop, tomorrow at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social! With awesome @chlolv.bsky.social & @nellageurts.bsky.social ❤️

It is very difficult to prove what happens behind the scenes, but knowing what I know about discrimination against women and minorities in politics, it seems likely that the personal interactions with colleagues, voters, friends and family contribute most to the exclusion of the underrepresented.

I have a new report out about political attitudes and voting likelihoods of Muslims. A topic that attracts the wildest speculations... often based on zero data: THEY VOTE LEFT, NO, actually THEY VOTE RIGHT. Crazy stuff. Here is an overview of the data from FR, DE and NL. doi.org/10.55271/rp0...

"Phil, you've got to get your life back on track" (I watched a lot of Dr. Phil as a kid but have recovered, don't worry)

Finally they read up on the political science literature, about two years late. nos.nl/l/2570516

You might wonder why the Dutch news are interviewing an MP in front of a drawing of a butthole... and a drawing about dead children's bodies. This is the kind of art the PVV likes to decorate their halls with. Just your regular reminder that Geert Wilders is a dangerous anti-Muslim Zionist🧵

📢 New publication in the Journal of Populism Studies 🎉 I ask: How do voters assess Muslim women in politics? I find no differences with Muslim men, but huge differences with non-Muslim politicians. And is using conjoints/interaction effects a good idea? Full paper here: doi.org/10.55271/JPS...

Groenlinks/PvdA leader Timmermans is now saying he doesn't want this option, making elections more likely.

Now Wilders' PVV left the coalition in the Netherlands, these four political parties can work together to get things done: GroenLinks/PvdA, VVD, NSC, D66 have a majority of the seats. My prediction is that Caroline van der Pas' BBB will leave the coalition and take their ministers soon as well.

Wilders Always Chickens Out

My 11-year-old keeps coming home from school with stories about kids arguing about Israel and Palestine. It is breaking up friendships between kids and causing fights with parents. The school principal says she had never seen anything like it in her 30-year career. Now is the time of monsters.

The split started in 2010 when Republicans (funded by big business) embraced anti-immigration views. Because they needed to mobilise negative sentiment on immigration to convince people to vote against their best interest? I call this the "awkward alliance" www.populismstudies.org/the-awkward-...

To understand discrimination in politics, we need to understand "strategic descriptive representation without substantive representation." Because what is it worth when we have more women, minorities, or Muslims etc. in politics when they cannot stand for the issues that benefit their own groups?

Using antisemitism to discredit cultural others doesn't only impact the lives of Jewish and Muslim people alike, it is now also being used to cut funding for the most basic research that saves lives. If protecting minorities doesn't convince, maybe this will. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Though political discourse might make one think otherwise, public opinion is pretty evenly split re. immigration attitudes. Those who are negative re. immigration get representation in parliaments, but what about those who actively welcome newcomers? 🧵

NEW - Gender Vote Gaps Among Ethnic Minority Voters in Britain - cup.org/435HpIg "results suggest that further work is needed to explain gender gaps in vote choice among ethnic minority voters in Britain" - Nicole S. Martin & Rosalind Shorrocks #OpenAccess

Another example of the consequences of, what I term, Judeonationalism. Using antisemitism to discredit cultural others not only hurts Muslims or activists, it furthers a nationalist agenda that can even go further to hurt one of the most prestigious institutions in the country, Harvard.

An analysis of political elites and processes of "white backlash," a.k.a. "whitelash," is key to understanding why and how these ideas influence policy. Very cool paper by @mcslaven.bsky.social

I keep encountering people who are denying others care because they lack the “capacity” to help. It’s time to name that this is a weaponization of therapy speak. It’s absolutely wild to respond to a loved one’s request for help this way. 🧵

I was lucky to be a Guest Editor for this Nature Collection on Group Diversity. Thank you to all who submitted work and reviewed! Check out the collection here: www.nature.com/collections/...

Mixed methods research in migration studies Not why, but how! Check out our new Special Issue which talks practical realities and learning from experience, in stead of abstract textbook perfections edited by @nellageurts.bsky.social, Tine Davids & me www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Far right normalisation in the bedroom: A paper that is fun to read and must have also been fun to write, right @bertous.bsky.social and @turnbulldugarte.com?

I think studying these small parties that have unusual bundles of policies is really fascinating. It shows us what could be, what voters want, but at the same time raises the question why they don't get far in elections in the end. More papers on these parties, please. A thread on why.

Marched to the International Court of Justice, Vredespaleis, today for Gaza. The march was organised by more than 80 organisations and attracted more than 100.000 people. Biggest demonstration in the Netherlands in 20 years. Now, it is time for action.

Last July we lived in a radically different world. I had finished my PhD and uploaded the data gathered for the project onto Harvard Dataverse. Thinking that would be the safest place for it to be stored. Now so much has changed. I have uploaded the data to OSF, stored in Germany.

Judeonationalists don't care about Jewish people, just like how homo- and femonationalists don't care about gay people and women.

✨Very happy to share this new publication together with Ilkhom Khalimzoda & Shomaila Sadaf in the Journal of Intercultural Communication. We investigated how clickbait headlines can increase anti-Muslim expressions and online othering. Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.36923/jic...

Leading scholar on protests Erica Chenoweth says: More protests and more protesters in the US now than in 2017. (It seems like there is much less media coverage now than in 2017, I hope someone is researching that too)

Loving the good things in life. My absolute coolest friend got a job and a house right around the corner from us, and our life is now like a sitcom.

Should Democrats move to the center on cultural issues? No. Cultural issues, like immigration, are the glue keeping the GOP’s awkward voting alliance of the superrich and poor together, while also distracting from policies widening inequality. I wrote this in January and it is truer than ever:

Instead of having a world where ethnic minorities feel they should change their name, maybe we should change some policies. Here is our blog about inequalities in the labour market based on ethnic minority name of job applicant, published on the @compasoxford.bsky.social website 👇

I published a new article on the website of the ECPS, enjoy!

✨New publication in Populism & Politics✨ Do minority voters tend to vote for Populist Radical Right Parties (PRRPs)? And why? Though Dutch Muslim minorities are much less likely to vote for the PVV, French and German Muslim minorities are actually just as likely to... 🧵

Hear hear. Schandalig hoe degelijk, onafhankelijk onderzoek verdacht wordt gemaakt als de uitkomst niet bevalt: stukroodvlees.nl/hoeveel-bewi...