Laura Westerveen

Biography

Laura Westerveen is (parttime) coordinator at BIRMM. Laura also works as postdoctoral researcher at the Brussels School of Governance’s Centre for Migration, Diversity and Justice, where she is involved in different research projects. 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.

Research Expertise: Racism & Inequalities, Migration & Minorities, Anti-discrimination & Migrant Integration Policies, Diversity & Multiculturalism. 

Research Methodology: Critical frame analysis, Critical discourse analysis, Qualitative content analysis, Ethnography.