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Frank van Tubergen

Frank van Tubergen

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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Citations
7373
World Ranking
4447
National Ranking
179

Overview

Frank van Tubergen is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands and has a research profile centered primarily within the Social Sciences, with 92 publications in this broad field. Their work spans several subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Gender Studies, Communication, Clinical Psychology, and Social Psychology.

The scientist's research covers diverse topics, notably Social and Intergroup Psychology, Migration and Labor Dynamics, Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research, Migration, Refugees, and Integration, Social Media and Politics, Migration, Health and Trauma, and Gender Diversity and Inequality.

Recent publication venues where van Tubergen has frequently contributed include AEA Randomized Controlled Trials, European Sociological Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Journal of International Migration and Integration / Revue de l'integration et de la migration internationale, and European Societies.

Their list of recent papers features the following:

  • "Discrimination of Black and Muslim Minority Groups in Western Societies: Evidence From a Meta-Analysis of Field Experiments" (2021, International Migration Review)
  • "Beyond the Core: Who Has Larger Social Networks?" (2020, Social Forces)
  • "Religion and Intergroup Boundaries: Positive and Negative Ties among Youth in Ethnically and Religiously Diverse School Classes in Western Europe" (2021, Review of Religious Research)
  • "Self-selection of Ukrainian refugees and displaced persons in Europe" (2023, Journal of Refugee Studies)
  • "Immigrant generation and religiosity: a study of Christian immigrant groups in 33 European countries" (2022, European Societies)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with van Tubergen include:

  • Huyen Nguyen
  • Yuliya Kosyakova
  • Nick Wuestenenk
  • Tobias Stark
  • Irena Kogan

Best Publications

  • The Economic Incorporation of Immigrants in 18 Western Societies: Origin, Destination, and Community Effects

    Frank van Tubergen;Ineke Maas;Henk Flap

  • Ethnic intermarriage in the Netherlands: confirmations and refutations of accepted insights

    Matthijs Kalmijn;Frank van Tubergen

  • The Employment Experience of Refugees in the Netherlands

    Thomas de Vroome;Frank van Tubergen

  • Ethnicity, schooling, and merit in the Netherlands

    Herman G. van de Werfhorst;Frank van Tubergen

  • Destination-Language Proficiency in Cross-National Perspective: A Study of Immigrant Groups in Nine Western Countries

    Frank van Tubergen;Matthijs Kalmijn

  • Dynamics of Interethnic Contact: A Panel Study of Immigrants in the Netherlands

    B. Martinovic;F.A. van Tubergen;I. Maas

  • A Comparative Perspective on Intermarriage: Explaining Differences Among National-Origin Groups in the United States

    Matthijs Kalmijn;Frank Van Tubergen

  • The Impact of Origin and Host Country Schooling on the Economic Performance of Immigrants

    Agnieszka Kanas;Frank van Tubergen

  • Religion as reassurance? Testing the insecurity theory in 26 European countries

    Tim Immerzeel;Frank van Tubergen

  • Self-Employment of Immigrants: A Cross-National Study of 17 Western Societies

    Frank van Tubergen

  • Religious Affiliation and Attendance Among Immigrants in Eight Western Countries: Individual and Contextual Effects

    Frank van Tubergen

  • The Religiosity of Immigrants in Europe: A Cross‐National Study

    Frank Van Tubergen;Jórunn Í. Sindradóttir

  • Discrimination of Arabic-Named Applicants in the Netherlands: An Internet-Based Field Experiment Examining Different Phases in Online Recruitment Procedures

    Lieselotte Blommaert;Marcel Coenders;Frank van Tubergen

  • Social Contacts and the Economic Performance of Immigrants: A Panel Study of Immigrants in Germany†

    Agnieszka Kanas;Barry R. Chiswick;Tanja van der Lippe;Frank van Tubergen

  • Religious Affiliation and Participation among Immigrants in a Secular Society: A Study of Immigrants in The Netherlands

    Frank van Tubergen

  • Denomination, Religious Context, and Suicide: Neo-Durkheimian Multilevel Explanations Tested with Individual and Contextual Data

    Frank van Tubergen;Manfred te Grotenhuis;Wout Ultee

  • Ethnic Composition and Friendship Segregation: Differential Effects for Adolescent Natives and Immigrants.

    Sanne Smith;Daniel A. McFarland;Frank Van Tubergen;Ineke Maas

  • Ethnic intermarriage among immigrants in the Netherlands: An analysis of population data

    Frank van Tubergen;Ineke Maas

  • Changes in immigrants' social integration during the stay in the host country: The case of non-western immigrants in the Netherlands

    Borja Martinovic;Frank van Tubergen;Ineke Maas

  • Ethnic ingroup friendships in schools : Testing the by-product hypothesis in England, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden

    Sanne Smith;Ineke Maas;Ineke Maas;Frank van Tubergen;Frank van Tubergen

Frequent Co-Authors

Ineke Maas
Ineke Maas Utrecht University
Matthijs Kalmijn
Matthijs Kalmijn University of Groningen
Maykel Verkuyten
Maykel Verkuyten Utrecht University
Tanja van der Lippe
Tanja van der Lippe Utrecht University
Miles Hewstone
Miles Hewstone University of Oxford
Herman G. van de Werfhorst
Herman G. van de Werfhorst University of Amsterdam
Beate Völker
Beate Völker Utrecht University

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