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Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) AISSR

Dissertations 2026

An overview of all 2026 dissertations by discipline, in chronological order.
  • Political Science

    Visa denied: Restrictive selectiveness within Schengen visa practices in West Africa

    Decentralized despotims: Subnational incumbents and electoral violence in Nigeria

    Guarding the gates, preserving the rights: Public perception, emotions, and attitudes toward immigrants

    Public lands and dimensions of citizenship: A comparative analysis of Mexico and Türkiye

    Bordering Europe through categorization: Implementing, mediating, and navigating the Schengen visa regime in Türkiye

    The European Union and contested states: Insights from Kosovo, northern Cyprus and Palestine

    "Defending what is ours": Resisting and re-existing in Covas do Barroso. An ethnography of a place-based struggle over a prospective lithium mine

    The relational postcolonial migration state: Entrepreneurial sovereign bodies and the competition for migration in Indonesia

  • Sociology

    Beyond winner-take-all: Examining market competition on and between webcam sex platforms 

    Beyond bias: Examining conditions that shape ethnic discrimination in resume screening and employees' support for organizational inclusion 

    • Ethnic discrimination remains a persistent issue in contemporary labor markets despite widespread organizational  
    • Programme group: Institutions, Inequalities, and Life courses  
    • PhD candidate: Sachs, T. 
    • Handle.net: https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/3efd202d-fb50-45d2-8b88-332788a69647 
    • Supervisors/Advisors: Lancee, B. (Supervisor) & Homan, A. C. (Supervisor) 
    • Award date: 12 Mar 2026 

    The last stop: A biographical approach to a chosen death in Switzerland 

    (Un)equal careers: Labor market inequalities between workers with general and vocational education over the life course 

    Racialized intimacies and national imaginaries: 'Mixed' marriages and the configuration of the 'Muslim question' in the Netherlands 

    Gatekeeping careers: Hiring evaluations of skills and education across contexts

     

    Objective policies, subjective realities: Organizational determinants of workplace inclusion in hiring

  • Anthropology

    Why here? Contextualizing care relocation of German-speaking seniors to the Czech borderlands 

    Facializing the skull: An ethnographic enquiry into the persistence of race in forensic anthropology

    The art of repair: Disaster stories and social worlds in Durban, South Africa

    • Programme group: Moving Matters: People, Goods, Power and Ideas
    • PhD candidate: Ragus, E. G.
    • Handle.net: https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/a810119f-4fd8-42a7-9e6a-3b10e8240635
    • Supervisors/Advisors: Moyer, E. M. (Supervisor), Reis, R. (Supervisor), Sutherland, C. G. (Co-supervisor) & Musariri, L. (Co-supervisor)
    • Award date: 8 Sept 2026

    The gendering of the water-energy-food nexus in peri-urban and urban South Africa

    Marked yet invisible: Child-centred stigma research in low- and middle-income countries and the case for a common approach to stigma reduction

    Influenza vaccination uptake among health care workers and older adults: Insights from mixed-methods research in India and the Netherlands and implications for novel delivery technologies

  • Geography, Planning and International Development Studies (GPIO)

    Navigating housing beyond arrival: The trajectories of EU labour migrants in the Netherlands 

    Governing the ASM-farming nexus: Prospects for integrated and inclusive landscape governance in Ghana 

    Multispecies urbanism: Refining urban greenspace through ecological, reciprocal, and situated planning practices for interspecies coproduction 

    Currents of trust: Insights from transboundary water cooperation in the Sava and Syrdarya river basins 

    Climate change, fossil fuels, and the energy transition in the Global South: Governance pathways to leave fossil fuels underground 

    The cost and value of participation in water governance: A case study of Indonesia 

    Intersecting masculinities and early marriage in the margins of Terai/Madesh, Nepal: Rethinking early marriage policy and practice through a DPSIR drivers, pressures, state, impact, and response analysis of lived realities and critical framings in global and national frameworks 

    Mapping translocal lives: Chinese migration, entrepreneurship, and the China-Bourdeaux wine economy 

    Measuring what matters: A wellbeing economics approach to urban marginality in high-income contexts 

    Oceanic legalities and justice in contested maritime boundaries: Perspectives from the Nicaraguan-Colombian sea region

    International development cooperation and the challenges of gender mainstreaming strategies for ICT: The case of Ethiopia

    Making the New Turkey: Reconfigurations of state and citizenship in an Istanbul neighbourhood