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Dr. Roy Huijsmans

Dr. Roy Huijsmans

Rural Development, Environment and Population Studies (SG4)

International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)

Erasmus University Rotterdam

 

Lecturer

 

T: +31 70 4260498

E: huijsmans@remove-this.iss.nl

Room: 4.10

Personal website: http://iss.academia.edu/RoyHuijsmans


 

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Professional experience

Present position
Lecturer
University Erasmus University Rotterdam
School International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)
Department Rural Development, Environment and Population Studies (SG4)
   

Research

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Position: Lecturer in Children & Youth Studies
Areas of interest:

  • State-child/youth relations in post-socialist contexts;
  • Rural childhood & youth and agrarian transformations;
  • Rural youth culture/identities;
  • Intra-household relations;
  • Qualitative methods and methodologies;
  • Concepts of age, generation, and gender;
  • Migration & mobilities in relation to children and youth;
  • Work and education;
  • Trafficking as discourse;
  • Development studies, anthropology, (social) geography;
  • Mainland Southeast Asia,& EU.

Publications

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Key publications (9)
  • Huijsmans, R.B.C. & Baker, S. (2012). Child Trafficking: ‘Worst Form’ of Child Labour, or Worst Approach to Young Migrants? Development and Change, 43(4), 919-946.
  • Huijsmans, R.B.C. (2012). Beyond compartmentalization: A relational approach towards agency and vulnerability of young migrants. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 29-45.
  • Huijsmans, R.B.C. (2011). The EUs Ambiguous Position on Migrant Underage Workers. In T.D. Truong & D. Gasper (Eds.), Transnational Migration and Human Security: The migration-development-security nexus (pp. 159-168). Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.
  • Huijsmans, R.B.C. (2011). 'The Theatre of Human Trafficking: A global discourse on Lao stages. International Journal of Social Quality, 1(2), 66-84.
  • Huijsmans, R.B.C. (2011). Child Migration and Questions of Agency. Development and Change, 42(5), 1307-1321.
  • Huijsmans, R.B.C. & Phouxay, K. (2008). ‘Whether you go illegally or legally in the end it’s the same, you’re cheated’: A study of formal and informal recruitment practices of Lao workers migrating to Thailand. ILO project: Migrant recruitment from the Lao PDR to Thailand – Final Report: Vientiane.
  • Huijsmans, R.B.C. (2008). Children Working Beyond their Localities: Lao children working in Thailand. Childhood-A Global Journal of Child Research, 15(531), 331-353.
  • Huijsmans, R.B.C. (2007). Approaches to Lao Minors Working in Thailand. Juth Pakai (Lao Development Journal), 18-33.
  • Huijsmans, R.B.C. (2006). Children, Childhood And Migration. (ISS Working Papers, General Series427 ). The Hague: ISS.
Article (6)
  • Huijsmans, R.B.C. & Baker, S. (2012). Child Trafficking: ‘Worst Form’ of Child Labour, or Worst Approach to Young Migrants? Development and Change, 43(4), 919-946.
  • Huijsmans, R.B.C. (2012). Beyond compartmentalization: A relational approach towards agency and vulnerability of young migrants. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 29-45.
  • Huijsmans, R.B.C. (2011). Child Migration and Questions of Agency. Development and Change, 42(5), 1307-1321.
  • Huijsmans, R.B.C. (2011). 'The Theatre of Human Trafficking: A global discourse on Lao stages. International Journal of Social Quality, 1(2), 66-84.
  • Huijsmans, R.B.C. (2008). Children Working Beyond their Localities: Lao children working in Thailand. Childhood-A Global Journal of Child Research, 15(531), 331-353.
  • Huijsmans, R.B.C. (2007). Approaches to Lao Minors Working in Thailand. Juth Pakai (Lao Development Journal), 18-33.
Part of book - Chapter (1)
  • Huijsmans, R.B.C. (2011). The EUs Ambiguous Position on Migrant Underage Workers. In T.D. Truong & D. Gasper (Eds.), Transnational Migration and Human Security: The migration-development-security nexus (pp. 159-168). Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.
Book review (4)
  • Huijsmans, R.B.C. (2012). Besmette Jeugd: Kinderen van NSB'ers na de oorlog [Contaminated Youth: Children of NSB members after the war] [Bespreking van het boek Besmette Jeugd: Kinderen van NSB’ers na de oorlog [Contaminated Youth: Children of NSB Members after the War]]. Childhood, 19(3), 414-416.
  • Huijsmans, R.B.C. (2011). Rights and Wrongs of Children’s Work [Bespreking van de boeken Rights and Wrongs of Children’s Work & Rights and Wrongs of Children’s Work]. Children’s Geographies , 9(3-4), 483-485.
  • Huijsmans, R.B.C. (2009). An Introduction to Childhood: Anthropological perspectives on children’s lives [Bespreking van het boek An Introduction to Childhood: Anthropological perspectives on children’s lives]. Children’s Geographies , 7(3), 362-363.
  • Huijsmans, R.B.C. (2009). Young People and Social Change: New perspectives [Bespreking van het boek Young People and Social Change: New perspectives]. Children’s Geographies , 7(2), 235-241.
Report (3)
  • Huijsmans, R.B.C. (2012). Background paper on Young Migrants in Urban Ghana, focusing particularly on young female head porters (kayayei). Amsterdam: Plan Netherlands.
  • Huijsmans, R.B.C. (2006). Children, Childhood And Migration. (ISS Working Papers, General Series427 ). The Hague: ISS.
  • Huijsmans, R.B.C. (2004). Listening to Working School-Youth: A child-centred case-study of employment experiences of HAVO-students in rural eastern Netherlands. The Hague: Institute of Social Studies (ISS).
Doctoral thesis (1)
  • Huijsmans, R.B.C. (2010, oktober 04). Migrating Children, Households, and the Post-Socialist State: An ethnographic study. Durham University (374 pag.) (Durham (UK): Durham University). Prom./coprom.: J. Rigg & R. Pain.
Other output (8)
  • Huijsmans, R.B.C. (2012). Shifting Regimes of Wealth: Repositioning young people in transforming rural Southeast Asia. Paper presented at the Workshop on ‘Population Dynamics in East and Southeast Asia’, hosted by the British Academy and Royal Society: London (2012, maart 29 - 2012, maart 30).
  • Huijsmans, R.B.C. (2012). Why do elderly care? Elderly mothers and adult daughters doing gendered age in transforming Southeast Asia. Paper presented at the Conference on Migration, (Social) Reproduction and Social Protection hosted by the University of East Anglia: London (2012, april 02 - 2012, april 03).
  • Huijsmans, R.B.C. (2011). Lao Childhoods in Transition. Presentation at the 26th Annual conference of the Association of Southeast Asian Studies in the United Kingdom (ASEASUK), Magdalene College: Cambridge (2011, september 09 - 2011, september 11).
  • Huijsmans, R.B.C., Savirani, A., Amin, B., White, B.N.F., Naafs, S. & Minza, W.M. (2011). Youth and Generation: A Southeast Asian Perspective. Presentation at the 3rd Southeast Asia Update: Leiden (2011, juni 24).
  • Huijsmans, R.B.C. (2011). (Not) Becoming a Young Migrant: Rural youth, households and networks.
  • Huijsmans, R.B.C. (2011). Unpacking the Gender Paradox in Lao Households’ Migration Decision-making Processes. Workshop On Householding In Transition: Emerging Dynamics In ‘Developing’ East And Southeast Asia: Singapore (2011, juli 25 - 2011, juli 26).
  • Huijsmans, R.B.C. (2011). Teaching (Anti)Trafficking: Some reflections drawing on the Dutch context. Paper presented at the Conference ‘Incorporation Human trafficking in Academic Institutions: The European experience. A regional conference', org. by the Protection Project, Johns Hopkins Univ.: Amsterdam (2011, november 25 - 2011, november 26).
  • Huijsmans, R.B.C. & Phouxay, K. (2008). ‘Whether you go illegally or legally in the end it’s the same, you’re cheated’: A study of formal and informal recruitment practices of Lao workers migrating to Thailand. ILO project: Migrant recruitment from the Lao PDR to Thailand – Final Report: Vientiane.