Jasmijn Slootjes
Deputy Director, MPI Europe
Jasmijn Slootjes is Deputy Director of MPI Europe, primarily working on immigrant integration. Her research areas include labor mobility, migrant health, evidence-informed policymaking, irregular migration, and how policies shape migration flows.
Before joining MPI Europe, Dr. Slootjes was Executive Director of the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative (BIMI) at the University of California, Berkeley. In this role, she worked on geospatial inequality in migrants’ access to health, legal, and refugee services by leading a multistate data-collection project and the development of an interactive mapping tool. She also worked on access to migrant services in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, spearheaded BIMI’s policy brief series, and organized the Summer Institute in Migration Research Methods.
Prior to BIMI, she completed her PhD research on how migrants overcome health problems as obstacles to labor market integration. One of the emerging articles, focusing on the impact of workfare volunteering on migrant labor market integration, won the best publication of the year award in the International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations. During her PhD, she was the coordinator of the Migration Diversity Centre and a Pat Cox Fellow at the Migration Policy Group. Previously, she studied the impact of budget cuts on integration courses and migrant language attainment at the Municipality of Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Dr. Slootjes holds a PhD in sociology (migration studies) from VU University Amsterdam, a master of science in migration studies from Utrecht University (cum laude), and a BA in political science and international relations (cum laude) from Utrecht University.
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Despite the ongoing war and heavy destruction across Ukraine, an estimated 1 million Ukrainians had returned to their country as of August 2024. On this webinar, experts discuss what shape refugees’ intentions to return or remain abroad.
With millions fleeing war-torn Ukraine, questions about how to effectively promote migrant integration are again front and center.
On this webinar, speakers examine how government strategies, practices, and instruments of integration policymaking have adapted during the pandemic both in Europe and North America, and what lessons there are for the future.
- Welcoming Remarks
- Sessionn1- The COVID-19 Crisis:
- Breakout-Narratives & Social Cohesion
- Session 2- COVID 19 Recovery
- Breakout-Migrant Inclusion in Rural Communities
- Breakout-Social Innovation Ecosystem
- Breakout-Digital Equity & Refugee Inclusion
- Session 3- Innovation Within Government. Rethinking and Modernizing Integration Policy
This virtual conference explores how the diverse landscape of partnerships, social enterprises, participatory models, and community-led initiatives spearheading social innovation for inclusion has fared during COVID-19. It also focuses on how this ecosystem can emerge strengthened from the pandemic, and be a vital force in addressing new humanitarian challenges.
With COVID-19 likely to significantly reshape health-care systems in Europe and worldwide, there is a window of opportunity to test new strategies to tackle longstanding migrant health disparities, and ensure that structural changes accommodate the complex needs of diverse populations.
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Despite the ongoing war and heavy destruction across Ukraine, an estimated 1 million Ukrainians had returned to their country as of August 2024. On this webinar, experts discuss what shape refugees’ intentions to return or remain abroad.
Policy Paradox: How Robust Host-Country Support for Ukrainian Refugees Can Foster Integration and Return
Prolonged Ukrainian Displacement: An Uneasy Marriage of Reception, Integration, and Return Policies