Mw. prof.dr. M.L.J.C. (Marlou) Schrover

Position:
  • Professor geschiedenis van migratie en sociale verschillen
Expertise:
  • history of ethnicity
  • history of gender
  • history of class


Telephone number: +31 (0)71 527 2786
E-Mail: m.l.j.c.schrover@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department: Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Institute for History, Economische en Sociale geschiedenis
Office Address: Johan Huizingagebouw
Doelensteeg 16
2311 VL Leiden
Room number 201A
Personal Homepage: www.hum.leiden.edu/​history/​staff/​schrover.html


Spreekuur / Hours

Dinsdag 13.30 - 14.30 / Tuesday 1.30 pm - 2.30 pm

Curriculum Vitae

Marlou Schrover works as a professor in migration history at Leiden University. She conducts a large NWO-vici project that looks at differences between men and women in migration to the Netherlands after 1945. Other people working on the project are Corrie van Eijl, Tycho Walaardt, Nadia Bouras and Charlotte Laarman (See: Website Vici project).
She graduated in journalism in 1979 and in economic and social history in 1986 (both in Utrecht). She received her Ph.D. at Utrecht University in 1991 for her research on labour relations in the food industry. She continued to work at Utrecht University until 2001, when she moved to the ING (Instituut Nederlandse Geschiedenis) in The Hague. From January 2002 she also worked at the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam.
Since March 2003 she works at Leiden University. She has published books and articles (see pdfs) on migration, the food industry, entrepreneurship, demography, ethnicity and gender. She has specialised in studies on the intersection between gender, class and ethnicity. In 2008 she published together with Herman Obdeijn Komen en gaan.Inmmigratie en emigratie in Nederland vanaf 1550 (Bert Bakker, Amsterdam 2008).

Major Publications

Marlou Schrover and Eileen Janes Yeo (ed), Gender, Migration and the Public Sphere 1850-2005 (New York Routledge 2010)


Marlou Schrover, Joanne van der Leun, Leo Lucassen and Chris Quispel, Illegal migration and gender in a global and historical perspective (Amsterdam AUP 2008).


Herman Obdeijn en Marlou Schrover, Komen en gaan. Inmmigratie en emigratie in Nederland vanaf 1550 (Amsterdam Bert Bakker 2008).


Marlou Schrover, Judith ten Broeke en Ronald Rommes, Migranten bij de Demka-staalfabrieken in Utrecht (1915-1983) (Utrecht 2008).


Isabel Hoving, Hester Dibbits en Marlou Schrover (red.), Veranderingen van het alledaagse. Cultuur en migratie in Nederland (Den Haag 2005).


See also: http://home.kpn.nl/schro497/

Last Modified: 13-12-2010