Biography
Jack Burgers is a sociologist and professor of urban studies at Erasmus University in Rotterdam.
He lectured at the Universities of Tilburg and Utrecht, and at the Academy of Architecture in Tilburg. In 1998, he was Visiting Fellow at The Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna, Austria. On behalf of the Netherlands, he participated in two EU ‘COST Actions’ and in the 5th-Framework project ‘UGIS’.
He has been a member of the editorial board of leading Dutch journals of social science and spatial planning. His research interests focus on the local consequences of economic restructuring, migration and integration, urban renewal and local policies, the use and meaning of public space, housing and residential mobility, urban culture and leisure.
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
- burgers@essb.eur.nl
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Work
- Jack Burgers & Linda Zuijderwijk (2016) - At home at the neighborhood square creating a sense of belonging in a heterogeneous city - Home Cultures, 13 (2), 101-121 - doi: 10.1080/17406315.2016.1190582
- Jack Burgers & Giorgio Touburg (2013) - International Mobility of Professional Knowledge from the Global South: Indian IT Workers in the Netherlands - Global networks : a journal of transnational affairs, 13 (4), 517-534 - doi: 10.1111/glob.12012 - [link]
