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Postdoctoral Position (0.8 FTE): Social Norms of Immigrant Integration

Company: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Location: Amsterdam, London

Posted: June 18, 2026

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Do you have an interest in public opinion on migration, and have you recently attained your PhD (or will you soon attain it)? Then please apply for this postdoctoral position on integration norms in immigrant societies.

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This postdoctoral position with a duration of 6 months is part of the research project “The Normative Integration Regime: How Differential Expectations Shape Immigrant Societies”, funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and led by Dr. Philipp Lutz.

Project Description

Beyond formal immigration policies, societies hold unwritten expectations about how immigrants should behave, but we currently lack systematic evidence on these informal rules. This project investigates the social norms in Dutch society towards immigrants and examines the extent to which those norms differ from expectations held toward native citizens. Specifically, the study addresses critical questions: Do people expect more from immig...