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Dr. F.J. (Franca) van Hooren

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group: Political Economy and Transnational Governance

Visiting address
  • Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
Postal address
  • Postbus 15578
    1001 NB Amsterdam
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  • Profile

    I am Associate Professor at the Political Science Department of the University of Amsterdam, where I am a member of the research group Political Economy and Transnational Governance. My research concentrates on the politics of care work, social policy, gender and migration. 

    From 2025 till 2030 I am principle investigator of the project “Breaking the Silence: Politics, Workers’ Rights and the Future of Senior Care in Europe” funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO-VIDI). It investigates under which conditions political decisions are made that improve working conditions in senior care and how care workers become politically active.

    Previously, I was Programme Director of the Social Science Research Master (2021-2024) and co-leader of the AISSR Programme Group Political Economy and Transnational Governance (2020-2022). Before working at the University of Amsterdam, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and at the Univeristy of Bremen. I obtained my PhD from the European University Institute in Florence. 

    Among other things, I have studied the role of and political responses to migrant workers in social care in different European welfare states; welfare state responses to economic crisis; the politics of domestic work policy in the Netherlands; and the post-colonial inequalities in social rights of former colonial citizens. More information can be found on my personal website and an up-to-date list of my publications can also be found on Google Scholar.

  • Publications

    2024

    • Westra, E., & van Hooren, F. J. (2024). Social rights in a post-colonial welfare state: Revisiting ‘universality’ and ‘inclusivity’. Journal of European Social Policy. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287241297540
    • van Hooren, F., & Vis, B. (2024). The Evolving Dutch Welfare State. In S. de Lange, T. Louwerse, P. 't Hart, & C. van Ham (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Dutch Politics (pp. 74-88). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198875499.013.5 [details]

    2023

    2021

    • van Hooren, F., Ledoux, C., Apitzsch, B., & Eleveld, A. (2021). Inclusive Advocacy? Trade-Union Activity in Support of the Rights of Domestic Workers in Continental Europe. Politique Européenne, 74(4), 108-134. https://doi.org/10.3917/poeu.074.0108 [details]

    2018

    2017

    2014

    • Starke, P., Kaasch, A., & van Hooren, F. (2014). Political Parties and Social Policy Responses to Global Economic Crises: Constrained Partisanship in Mature Welfare States. Journal of Social Policy, 43(2), 225-246. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047279413000986 [details]
    • van Hooren, F., Kaasch, A., & Starke, P. (2014). The shock routine: economic crisis and the nature of social policy responses. Journal of European Public Policy, 21(4), 605-623. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2014.887757

    2013

    • Starke, P., Kaasch, A., & van Hooren, F. (2013). The welfare state as crisis manager: Explaining the diversity of policy responses to economic crisis. (Transformations of the State). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137314840

    2012

    2008

    2019

    • van Hooren, F., Apitzsch, B., & Ledoux, C. (2019). The Politics of Care Work and Migration. In A. Weinar, S. Bonjour, & L. Zhyznomirska (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of Migration in Europe (pp. 363-373). (Routledge International Handbooks). Routledge. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315512853-34 [details]

    2017

    • van Hooren, F. (2017). De verzorgingsstaat onder druk. In P. van Praag (Ed.), Politicologie en de veranderende politiek (pp. 77-96). Amsterdam University Press. [details]
    • van Hooren, F. (2017). The Welfare State under Pressure. In P. van Praag (Ed.), Political Science and Changing Politics (pp. 71-88). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1zqrmq0.7 [details]

    2014

    • van Hooren, F. (2014). Migrant care work in Europe: Variety and institutional determinants. In M. León (Ed.), The transformation of care in European societies (pp. 62-82). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137326515_4 [details]

    2010

    2016

    • van Hooren, F. J., Eleveld, A., & Günther, S. (2016). The Precarious Unionization of Undocumented Migrant Domestic Workers in the Netherlands: Understanding Opportunities and Constraints. Paper presented at ISA Forum of Sociology, Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

    2015

    • van Hooren, F. J., & Soentken, M. (2015). A Welfare State for Whom? the Impact of Social Investment Reforms on Income and Activation in the Netherlands. Paper presented at 22nd International Conference of Europeanists (22th CES Conference), Paris, .

    Talk / presentation

    • van Hooren, F. (speaker) (2016). Migrants working in personal and home support for old people, ESN Working Group on Ageing and Care.
    • van Hooren, F. (speaker) (2016). The politics of domestic work in the Netherlands, Platform 189, Decent Work for Domestic Workers, Rotterdam.
    • Becker, U. (speaker) & van Hooren, F. J. (speaker) (17-9-2009). Explaining contradictory developments in child and elderly care policies in the Netherlands, paper presented at the conference on The future of the welfare state: paths of social policy innovation between constraints and opportunities, Urbino (It.).

    Others

    • van Hooren, F. (participant) (10-7-2016 - 14-7-2016). ISA Forum of Sociology, Vienna, Vienna (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • van Hooren, F. (organiser) & Burgoon, B. M. (organiser) (5-6-2015). Political Economy and the New Welfare State, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • van Hooren, F. (chair) (2015). 22nd International Conference of Europeanists (22th CES Conference), Paris (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).

    2025

    • Westra, E. (2025). Claiming and contesting postcolonial citizenship: Political struggles over the rights and belonging of Surinamese-Dutch citizens. [Thesis, fully internal, Universiteit van Amsterdam]. [details]
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