Dr. Laura Westerveen

Laura Westerveen is postdoctoral researcher at the BSoG’s Centre for Migration, Diversity and Justice. She works as research coordinator at the Brussels Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Migration and Minorities (BIRMM) and as valorisation coordinator for the SBO ENGINE project. Laura also teaches Diversity Policies in the EU at the BSoG. She has previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Public Administration and Sociology at Erasmus University Rotterdam and as a lecturer at the University of Amsterdam.  Her research and teaching focuses on politics and policies of diversity and (in)equality in different European countries and at multiple levels of governance. Laura obtained her PhD in political science from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2020. In her PhD research, she studied how inequalities that migrants and racialized minorities face in European societies are framed within policy discourses. 

List of publications (on VUB publications platform)

KEY WORDS 

politics - policies of racism - inequalities

RESEARCH GROUPS

• Brussels School of Governance