
Karijn Nijhoff works as a senior researcher at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. She looks with a sociological lens at global migration patterns and local consequences. She earned her PhD in sociology at Michigan State University (USA) with a dissertation on the impact of welfare state constructions on labor market opportunities. In her recent work, she looks at labor market access and self-employment for recent refugees in the Netherlands. She also works on societal access of intra-EU migrants and their experiences in their new settings.

