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Ilke Adam
 
 
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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. She joined the IES as a Post-doctoral Research fellow in May 2009. Ilke Adam holds a PhD in social and political science from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (2010), entitled ‘Beyond National Models? Immigrant Integration Policies of the Belgian Regions”. She also holds a Master after Master in Comparative Politics (Institut d’Etudes Politiques, 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 Université Libre de Bruxelles and coordinates a doctoral reading seminar on “Theories of Immigrant Integration (Policies)” at the Doctoral School in the Humanities of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Ilke Adam is actually working on a research project concerning informal practices of reasonable accommodation for religious diversity. She also prepares publications on the relation 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. She further evaluated immigrant integration policy programmes.
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