Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans
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Director of the Research Department
Head of the Completed Bridging Project
Research fields
Immigration and Integration Policies | Ethnic Inequality and Ethno-cultural Conflicts | Religious Fundamentalism | The Politics of Globalization | Social Movements | Evolutionary Sociology
CV
Selected Career Stages:
Since November 2013 Professor of Sociology and Migration Research at the Humboldt University of Berlin
Since 2007 Director of the research unit "Migration, Integration, Transnationalization" at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center
2011 – 2016 Head of the bridging project "The Political Sociology of Cosmopolitanism and Communitarianism" at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center (with Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Merkel and Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn)
Selected Academic Posts:
2020 - 2021 Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM), Berlin
Since 2018 Member of the Board of Trustees of the German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM), Berlin
2011 - 2019 Member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), Nuremberg
Since 2010 Guest professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam
Education:
1992 Doctorate in Political and Social – Cultural Sciences at the University of Amsterdam. Title of Dissertation: "Democracy from Below. New Social Movements and the Political System in West Germany".
Selected Publications
Wzbaktiv
2023
Koopmans, Ruud (2023): Die Asyl-Lotterie. Eine Bilanz der Flüchtlingspolitik von 2015 bis zum Ukrainekrieg. München: C.H. Beck, 269 S.
2022
Orgad, Liav/Koopmans, Ruud (Eds.) (2022): Majorities, Minorities, and the Future of Nationhood. Cambridge u.a.: Cambridge University Press, XIII, 320 S.
2021
Koopmans, Ruud (2021): Decomposing Discrimination. Why a Holistic Approach to Racism Hides More Than It Reveals. WZB Discussion Paper SP VI 2021–103. Berlin: WZB.
Koopmans, Ruud/Kanol, Eylem/Stolle, Dietlind (2021): "Scriptural Legitimation and the Mobilisation of Support for Religious Violence. Experimental Evidence across Three Religions and Seven Countries". In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol. 42, No. 7, S. 1498-1516. (vorab publiziert online 14.12.2020)
2020
Koopmans, Ruud (2020): A Virus That Knows No Borders? Exposure to and Restrictions of International Travel and the Global Diffusion of COVID-19. WZB Discussion Paper SP VI 2020-103. Berlin: WZB.
Koopmans, Ruud (2020): Das verfallene Haus des Islam. Die religiösen Ursachen von Unfreiheit, Stagnation und Gewalt. München: C.H. Beck, 288 S.
Koopmans, Ruud (2020): Islams forfaldne hus. De religiøse årsager til ulighed, stagnation og vold. Kopenhagen: Forlaget Pressto, 252 S. (Das verfallene Haus des Islam, in dänischer Sprache)
Koopmans, Ruud/Orgad, Liav (2020): Majority-Minority Constellations. Towards a Group-Differentiated Approach. WZB Discussion Paper SP VI 2020-104. Berlin: WZB.
2019
Koopmans, Ruud (2019): Het vervallen huis van de islam. Over de crisis van de islamitische wereld. Amsterdam: Prometheus, 287 S.
Koopmans, Ruud/Veit, Susanne/Yemane, Ruta (2019): "Taste or Statistics? A Correspondence Study of Ethnic, Racial and Religious Labour Market Discrimination in Germany". In: Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 42, No. 16, S. 233-252.
de Wilde, Pieter/Koopmans, Ruud/Merkel, Wolfgang/Strijbis, Oliver/Zürn, Michael (Eds.) (2019): The Struggle Over Borders. Cosmopolitanism and Communitarianism. Cambridge u.a.: Cambridge University Press, XI, 276 S.
2018
Koopmans, Ruud (2018): Cultural Rights of Native Majorities between Universalism and Minority Rights. WZB DIscussion Paper SP VI 2018–106. Berlin: WZB.
2017
Koopmans, Ruud (2017): Assimilation oder Multikulturalismus? Bedingungen gelungener Integration. Migration, Bd. 4. Berlin/Münster: LIT Verlag, 261 S.
Koopmans, Ruud/Michalowski, Ines (2017): "Why Do States Extend Rights to Immigrants? Institutional Settings and Historical Legacies Across 44 Countries Worldwide". In: Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 50, No. 1, S. 41-74. (vorab online publiziert 24.06.2016)
2016
Koopmans, Ruud (2016): "Does Assimilation Work? Sociocultural Determinants of Labour Market Participation of European Muslims". In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol. 42, No. 2, S. 197-216. (vorab online publiziert 22. September 2015)
Koopmans, Ruud/Schaeffer, Merlin (2016): "Statistical and Perceived Diversity and Their Impacts on Neighborhood Social Cohesion in Germany, France and the Netherlands". In: Social Indicators Research, Vol. 125, No. 3, S. 853-883. (vorab online publiziert 18.01. 2015)
2015
Koopmans, Ruud (2015): "Religious Fundamentalism and Hostility against Out-groups. A Comparison of Muslims and Christians in Western Europe". In: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Vol. 41, No. 1, S. 33-57. (Vorab online publiziert 21. Juli 2014)
Koopmans, Ruud/Lancee, Bram/Schaeffer, Merlin (Eds.) (2015): Social Cohesion and Immigration in Europe and North America. Mechanisms, Conditions, and Causality. Routlegde Advances in Sociology, Vol. 137. London/New York, NY: Routledge, XIX, 234 S.
Koopmans, Ruud/Schaeffer, Merlin (2015): "Relational Diversity and Neighbourhood Cohesion. Unpacking Variety, Balance and In-Group Size". In: Social Science Research, Vol. 53, S. 162-176.
2014
Braun, Robert/Koopmans, Ruud (2014): "Watch the Crowd. Bystander Responses, Trickle-down Politics, and Xenophobic Mobilization". In: Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 47, No. 4, S. 631–658. (Vorab online publiziert 23. Mai 2013)
Koopmans, Ruud/Veit, Susanne (2014): "Ethnic Diversity, Trust, and the Mediating Role of Positive and Negative Interethnic Contact. A Priming Experiment". In: Social Science Research, Vol. 47, S. 91-107. (vorab online publiziert 12.04.2014)
Koopmans, Ruud/Veit, Susanne (2014): "Cooperation in Ethnically Diverse Neighborhoods. A Lost-letter Experiment". In: Political Psychology, Vol. 35, No. 3, S. 379–400. (Vorab online publiziert 12. Juni 2013)
2013
Carol, Sarah/Koopmans, Ruud (2013): "Dynamics of Contestation over Islamic Religious Rights in Western Europe". In: Ethnicities, Vol. 13, No. 2, S. 165-190.
Koopmans, Ruud (2013): "Multiculturalism and Immigration. A Contested Field in Cross-national Comparison". In: Annual Review of Sociology, S. 147-169. (Vorab online publiziert 15. Mai 2013)
2012
Koopmans, Ruud/Michalowski, Ines/Waibel, Stine (2012): "Citizenship Rights for Immigrants. National Political Processes and Cross-National Convergence in Western Europe, 1980–2008". In: American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 117, No. 4, S. 1202-1245.
Projects
Head: Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans
Staff: Anselm Frieder Rink, Eylem Kanol
Duration: 2015-
Funding: WZB
Staff: Ruta Yemane
Duration: 2013-
Funding: WZB
Head: Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans
Staff: Dr. Susanne Veit, Ruta Yemane
Duration: 2015-
Funding: Horizon 2020 of the European Commission
Head: Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans
Staff: -
Duration: 2014-
Funding: WZB
Staff: Oliver Strijbis, Ph.D., Prof. Dr. Sarah Carol, Dr. Céline Teney, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Weßels, Dr. Pieter de Wilde, Dr. Onawa Promise Lacewell, Senem Tepe, Niklas Mäkinen
Duration: 2011-2018
Funding: WZB
Funding: WZB
Climate Change Impacts on Migration and Urbanization (IMPETUS)
Head: Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans, Prof. Dr. Marc Helbling
Head: Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans, Prof. Dr. Marc Helbling
Staff: Dr. Daniel Meierrieks
Duration: 2018-2021
Funding: Leibniz-Gemeinschaft
Funding: Leibniz-Gemeinschaft