Ilke Adam

Biography

Ilke Adam is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for European Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (main affiliation) and a part-time lecturer at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Heke joined the IES as a post-doctoral research fellow in May 2009. Ilke Adam holds a PhD in social and political science from the Free University of Brussels (2010), entitled 'Beyond National Models? Immigrant Integration Policies of the Belgian Regions ". She also holds a Master's degree in Comparative Politics (Aix en Provence) and a Master in Law (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven). Her research interests include migration, immigrant integration, multiculturalism, citizenship, discrimination, sub-state nationalism and comparative public policy. She teaches "Introduction to Political Science" in the bilingual (Dutch-French) bachelor in political science at the Free University of Brussels and coordinators at the Doctoral School in the Humanities of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Ilke Adam is a member of the International Association of Religious Studies. She also prepared publications on the relationship between sub-state nationalism and immigrant integration and on the path dependency of multiculturalism policies after the so-called turn towards assimilation. Prior to starting her PhD she conducted research on survival strategies of undocumented migrants and on the link between social science and policy with regard to immigrant integration.

Research Interest

Politics: algemene inleiding