Marlou Schrover

Marlou Schrover is a professor of migration history at Leiden University, and holds the chair of Economic and Social History. In 2013 she concluded a large (NWO vici) project on gender and migration (1.25 million Euros). She published seven books, and edited seven volumes. In total she has over 150 publications, many in international peer reviewed journals.

She is editor in chief of the Journal of migration History, and member of the advisory board of Immigrants and Minorities. Recent publications include Illegal Migration and Gender in a Global and Historical Perspective (AUP, Amsterdam 2008) (with Joanne van der Leun, Leo Lucassen and Chris Quispel), Komen en Gaan. Immigratie en Emigratie in Nederland vanaf 1550 (Bert Bakker, Amsterdam 2008) (with Herman Obdeijn), Gender, Migration and the Public Sphere 1850-2005 (Routledge, New York 2010) (with Eileen Janes Yeo), Gender, Migration and categorisation: Making distinctions amongst migrants in Western countries (1900) 1945-2010 (AUP, Amsterdam 2013) (with Deirdre M. Moloney) and The Language of Inclusion and Exclusion in Immigration and Integration (New York Routledge 2014) (with Willem Schinkel).

She is co-editor of the 5 volumes The encyclopedia of global human migration (Chichester Wiley-Blackwell 2013) (chief editor Immanuel Ness, with Saer Maty Ba, Michael Borgolte, Donna Gabaccia, Dirk Hoerder, Alex Julca, Cecilia Menjivar, and Gregory Woolf), co-chair of the migration and ethnicity network of the ESSHC and moderator of H-Migration (the discussion list of migration historians).