Pioneers in Migration History, an Introduction

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This special issue of TSEG - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History is dedicated to Marlou Schrover and Leo Lucassen, who will both retire in 2026. The volume is presented to them on the occasion of their farewell symposium, held in Leiden on March 27, 2026. With this special issue, colleagues from the Netherlands and abroad honor two scholars whose work has been foundational to the development of migration history as a vibrant, analytically rigorous, and socially engaged field of research. 

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  • Nadia Bouras, Leiden University

    Nadia Bouras is Assistant Professor at the Institute for History, Leiden University, specializing in contemporary migration history and the history of Morocco. She earned her PhD at Leiden University in 2012 under the supervision of Professor Marlou Schrover. She was affiliated with Leiden University from 2006 to 2012 and has been based there again since September 2016.

  • Manon van der Heijden, Leiden University

    Manon van der Heijden is Professor of Comparative Urban History at the Institute for History, Leiden University, specializing in early modern urban history. She earned her PhD at Erasmus University Rotterdam in 1998, where she worked from 1992 to 1998. From 1999 to 2006, she held an appointment at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She has been affiliated with Leiden University since September 2006.

  • Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson

    Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson earned her PhD from Leiden University in 2018, under the supervision of Professor Marlou Schrover, with a comparative study of decolonization in the Dutch East Indies, British India, and French Indochina, focusing on people of mixed European and indigenous descent. She has held teaching positions at Leiden University, Erasmus University Rotterdam, and Utrecht University. She is currently an archival specialist at the Municipality of Haarlemmermeer, where she explores ways of combining historical research and archival practice in the digital age.

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Published

2026-03-30

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Vol. 23 No. 1 (2026): Pioneers in Migration History. A Special Issue in the Honor of Marlou Schrover and Leo Lucassen

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Introduction

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Copyright (c) 2026 Nadia Bouras, Manon van der Heijden, Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson

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Bouras, N., van der Heijden, M., & Rosen Jacobson, L. (2026). Pioneers in Migration History, an Introduction. TSEG - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, 23(1), 5-14. https://doi.org/10.52024/dkwkys66
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