Jasmijn Slootjes

Jasmijn Slootjes is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Migration Policy Institute Europe (MPI Europe), primarily working on immigrant integration. Her research areas include migrant health, evidence-informed policymaking, migrants’ access to services, integration policies, receiving-society responses to migration, and the use of innovative research methods to study migration. Before joining MPI Europe, Dr. Slootjes was Executive Director of the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative at the University of California, Berkeley. Previously, she completed her PhD research on how migrants overcome health problems as obstacles to labour market integration. During her PhD, she was Coordinator of the Migration Diversity Centre and a Pat Cox Fellow at the Migration Policy Group. She also 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 MSc in migration studies from Utrecht University, and a BA in political science and international relations from Utrecht University.