**For media inquiries and appearances contact Marjolein Kooistra, kooistra@fsw.eur.nl, +31 (0) 10 408 2135. Direct inquiries will not be accepted.** **Prof. dr. Godfried Engbersen is Professor of Sociology at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is also the Research Director of the Sociology Department and Director of the interdisciplinary research group [Citizenship, Migration & the City (CIMIC)][Citizenship_ Migration _ the City _CIMIC] at EUR.** Previously, he worked at the universities of Leiden, Amsterdam and Utrecht, and as visiting professor at the Centre of Western European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley (spring, 1996). He is the Dutch correspondent for the continuous Reporting System on Migration (SOPEMI) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW). Prof. dr. Engbersen also was an elected member of the Dutch Advisory Commission on Alien Affairs (2001-2009) and member of the general board of the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research (ASSR). He chaired the KNAW committee on the Future of Dutch Sociology (2003-2006). His current research activities focus on transnationalism and cosmopolitanism, migration systems, and labour mobility within the EU. Visit his [personal website][] for more information. [Citizenship_ Migration _ the City _CIMIC]: http://www.cimic-eur.com/ [personal website]: http://www.godfriedengbersen.com/