Thomas Spijkerboer
Supervisor
Department of European, Public and International Law
Faculty of Law and Criminology
Thomas Spijkerboer (1963) is research professor of Migration Law at Ghent University, where he leads the project Global Migration Justice: Beyond conflicting approaches to migration and international human rights law (MIGJUST).He studies at the University of Amsterdam (1981-1986), and during his studies was a volunteer at the Stichting Rechtswinkel Amsterdam. From 1986 until 1993 he worked at the Advokatenkollektief Zaanstreek. Between 1993 and 2000 he was lecturer of Migration Law at the Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen, where he wrote is PhD thesis Gender and Refugee Status. From 2000 until 2024 he was professor of Migration Law at the Amsterdam Centre for Migration and Refugee Law of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Email: Thomas.Spijkerboer@UGent.be
Research themes:
Migration law, migrants’ rights and legal Identity