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Curriculum Vitae Ton van Naerssen I started my private consultancy firm Avanna in Spring 2010 while maintaining a part-time position as senior research fellow in the development geography, Nijmegen School of Management, Radboud University Nijmegen (RU). Until 2008, I was associate professor and co-ordinator of the master programme ‘Globalisation and Development’ at the same university. My major fields of interest included globalisation processes, urban environment and health, and international migration. My teachings concerned courses on development geography, globalisation and development, global cities and small-scale and informal activities, and supervising more than hundred M.A. thesis mainly in the field of poverty, development and emancipation. My research experiences are in mainly in Southeast Asia but I also gained experience in Africa and Latin America. After my Ph. D. research on industrialisation and regional development in Peninsular Malaysia, I went to The Philippines focusing on public participation in the urban development of Manila and Cebu City. I also did some research on urban and regional development in Indonesia. My current interest mainly concerns the impact of international migration on development processes. I was previously member of the editorial boards of the journals ‘Derde Wereld’ (Third World) and the Journal of Economic and Social Geography (TESG). Next to publishing articles I co-edited several books, among others on Healthy Cities in Developing Countries (2002), Asian Migrants and European Labour Markets (2005), and Global Migration and Development (2008). In much of my research I worked together with non-governmental organisations. As a consultant I worked for Dutch co-financing organisations and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During many years I was also involved in human rights activities. During ten years (2001-2012) I was member of the project advisory committee (PAC) of Oxfam/Novib. From June 2010 till August 2011 I worked for the Global Society Foundation in Utrecht as part-time coordinator for research, policy and strategy. At current, I am member of the Nijmegen Urban Health Group (NUHG), the Migration and Development Research Group of the Geography Departments of the RU and the NUFFIC (Netherlands University Foundation for International Cooperation) consultancy group that supports the establishment of a Centre of Migration Studies at the University of Ghana in Accra. Chairing a meeting of Transcode/ Als voorzitter op een bijeenkomst van het Transcode project Research Experiences/Assignments/Field visits 2010-2011 Research project Gender and Remittances commissioned by Oxfam/Novib (September-June) 2010 Assignment as part-time Coordinator for research, strategy and policy (2 days a week) of the Global Society Foundation (SMS; office in Utrecht) (June-December 2010) 2010 Pharos/SMS research on Temporary Return Migration commissioned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cordaid. 2010 Dutch Project coordinator of Transcode (Transnational Synergy and Cooperation for Development), a project of RU, SMS and the Scalabrini Migration Center (Manila), funded by Porticus and Cordaid. 2009 Migration and Development in the Netherlands. Commissioned by Oxfam/Novib for European Social Watch 2008-to date MDF, Institute of Social Studies (the Hague) and Radboud University: Support to Centre for Migration Studies, University of Ghana. Commissioned by Netherlands University Foundation for International Cooperation (NUFFC). 2006-2007 Research in Health and Environment in two Low-Income Areas in Cebu City, The Philippines 2006-2007 Research project “International Migration and Development: Viewpoints and Policy Initiatives in the Countries of Origin”, commissioned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment (May 2006-May 2007) 2006 Visit Beijing and Xiamen (P.R. China) 2005-to date Research project Global Migration and Development (a.o. including conference in Manila, funded by the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF), European Alliance for Asian Studies (EAAS) and the Swiss Foundation for Population, Migration & Environment (PME) and a book project to be published by Routledge) 2005 - Development of indicators to evaluate the PSO Youth Programme (PSO The Hague). - Ex-Post Impact Evaluation Sustainable Rural District Development Program (SRDDP) The Philippines 1991-2002. Commisioned by Oxfam/Novib 2002-2004 Social networks of migrant entrepreneurs in the region Arnhem-Nijmegen (Programme ‘Start Klaar/‘Ready to Start’ ‘funded by European Social Fund EQUAL programme) 2003 Mid Term Evaluation PSO Young Professionals Programme (including visits to Northeast Uganda, Cape Town and Johannesburg) 2003 Research visit Mexico City 2000-2004 Co-coordinator of research programme Asian immigrants in Europe (resulting in a book) 1999-to date Fundamental research within the framework of the Faculty Programme Governance and Places (a.o. Healthy Cities in Developing Countries and Urban Governance and City Planning in Cebu, The Philippines’) 1996-to date Supervisor Ph.D. researches 1996-2001 Participant research-programme "Urbanisation and Industrialisation" of the national Research School CERES (Centre for Resource Studies for Human Development) 1996 Ministry of Foreign Affairs - DGIS mission 'Relocation' Manila, Philippines 1995-2000 World Health Organisation-consultant UNDP/WHO Healthy Cities Programme, specifically with regard to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. 1994-1999 Participant research-programme "Diversity and Development" of the School for Comparative and Cultural Studies (NICCOS). Research urban poverty alleviation. 1994 Co-funding organisation HIVOS mission NGOs Malaysia 1994-1996 Participant research programme "Territorial strategies" Faculty Policy Sciences of Nijmegen University 1993-1995 Participant research project "Metropolitan management in Southeast Asia"; ISEAS, Singapore 1992-1999 Member committee project on "Sustainable Management Coastal Zones in the Tropics” for the Foundation for Scientific Research in the Tropics (WOTRO) 1992-1996 Head of evaluation mission regional irrigation project Cidurian, West-Java 1989-1993 Participant in research-programme considering "Incorporation and Countervailing Forces" for the School for Comparative and Cultural Studies (NICCOS) 1986-1988 Supervisor for regional planning "500 m.+ around lake Toba" project Universitas HKBP Nommensen (Medan, Indonesia), Services Overseas (PSO) and Department of Geography for Developing Countries 1983-1988 Participant Departmental research-programme "Struggle for Space in Developing Countries”, University of Nijmegen 1978 Research-fellow Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS),Singapore 1976-1983 Ph.D. project "Dependency, Industrialisation and Regional development in Peninsular Malaysia" 1975 Research visits Zambia and Nigeria. Tales of Development Click here to see more about this book Paul Hebinck, Sef Slootweg and Lothar Smith (eds.) Tales of Development. People, Power and Space. Assen: Van Gorcum. 2008. This book has been written to mark forty years of commitment to the field of development geography by Ton van Naerssen. Through 19 essays, all concomitant with Ton’s view by taking an engaged and academically critical perspective, this book reflects on a number of important themes. These include: the role of critical theory and taking position in public debate; the interrelationship between governance and development; the implications of changing identities and the articulation of space; the role of globalization on lives and livelihoods; and the significance of migration and migration trajectories. Selected Publications Keywords: international migration; transnational community organisations; migrant entrepreneurship; international development; cities in developing countries, urban environment and health; Southeast Asia; Indonesia; The Philippines Cities in Developing Countries 2008: Marcel van Kampen and Ton van Naerssen: Globalisation and Urban Governance in Two Asian Cities: Pune (India) and Cebu (The Philippines). In: Boekema, F., T. van Naerssen and A. Zoomers: Global Circulation and Territorial Development. Special Issue European Planning Journal, vol. 16, no. 17, pp. 943-957. 2001: Guest editor) Global Cities. Special Issue of Peripherie. Zeitschrift fur Politik und Okonomie in der Dritten Welt. (Journal of Politics and Economics in the Third World) Frankfurt am Main: Iko Verlag (Germany). Vol. 81/82, Nr. 1-2, 234 pp. 2001: Global Cities in der Dritten Welt (Global cities in the Third World). In: Global Cities. Special Issue of Peripherie, pp. 32-52. 2001: Cities and the Globalization of Urban Development Policy .In: F. Schuurman (eds.) Globalization and Development Studies: Challenges for the 21th Century. London: Sage, pp. 177-195. 1989: (co-editor with Frans Schuurman) Urban Social Movements in the Third World. London. Routledge), 220 pp. Introduction, pp.1-8; reprint E-book series Routledge 2010. Urban Environment and Health 2009: Leny Ocasiones, Maria de Lange and Ton van Naerssen: Social Capital and Environmental Health in Low-income Neighbourhoods in Cebu City. Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society. 2003: (with LMB Rongo, S. de Haan et al.) Perceived occupational and environmental health hazards among workers in small scale industries in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: a focus group discussion study. Pp. 26-59, chapter 2 in: Larama M.B. Rongo Occupational and Environmental Health hazards in small scale industries in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. PH. Thesis, 30 October, University of Nijmegen. 2002: (1st editor; with Francoise Barten) Healthy Cities in Developing Countries. Lessons to be Learnt. Series Nijmegen Studies in Development and Cultural Change, no. 38. Verlag fur Entwicklungspolitik Saarbrucken GmbH (170 pp.) 2002: (with Francoise Barten) Healthy Cities as a Political Process. In: Healthy Cities in Developing Countries. Nijmegen Studies in Development and Cultural Change no. 38. VerlagfurEntwicklungspolitik Saarbrucken GmbH, pp. 1-23. 2002: Healthy Cities and Urban Governance. In: Baud, I.S.A. & J. Post (eds.) Realigning Actors in an Urbanizing World. Governance and Institutions from a Development Perspective. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishers, pp.139-156 International Migration 2009: Migration and Development in the Netherlands. In: Migrants in Europe as Development Actors. Between Hope and Vulnerability. European Social Watch Report 2009, Brussels: Eurostep, p.70-71. 2009: Lothar Smith and Ton van Naerssen: Migrants: suitable brokers of development in Africa? DevISSues.Vol. 11, no.2, p.19-21. 2008: Naerssen, T. van, E. Spaan and A. Zoomers (eds.): Global Migration and Development. New York/Londen: Routledge. 2008: Adepoju, A., T. van Naerssen and A. Zoomers (eds.) : International Migration and National Development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Viewpoints and policy initiatives in the Countries of Origin. Leiden: Brill Publishers. Afrika Studiecentrum Series no. 10. ISBN 978-90-04-16354-6 2008: Ton van Naerssen and Martin van der Velde (eds.): Migration in a New Europe: People, Borders and Trajectories. Rome: Home of Geography. ISBN 978-88-8869-40-1 2008: Velde, M. van der and T. van Naerssen: People, Borders and Trajectories: a Model to Approach Migration in the Enlarged European Union. In: Velde, M. van der and T.van Naerssen (eds.): Migration in a New Europe: People, Borders and Trajectories. Rome: Home of Geography, pp. 145-154 2007: Working Papers Series Migration and Development, Research Group Migration and Development, Department of Human Geography, Radboud University Nijmegen, nrs. 1. 2, 12 ,13 and 14 2005: (guest editor with Ernst Spaan) Contemporary migrations in Asia and Europe: exploring transnationalism, multiple linkages and development Special Issue Asia Pacific Migration Journal. Vol. 14, nos.1-2 (240 pp.) ISSN 0117-1968 2005: (ed. with Ernst Spaan and Felicitas Hillmann). Asian migrants and European labour markets. London. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-36502-3 (337 pp.) 2005: (with Felicitas Hillmann and Ernst Spaan) Landscapes of Asian migrant labour in Europe. In: (ed. with Ernst Spaan and Felicitas Hillmann). Asian migrants and European labour markets, . London. Routledge pp. 1-18. Transnational Communities and their Organisations 2008: We are Bridging Cultures and Countries. In: T. van Naerssen, E. Spaan and A. Zoomers (eds.): Global Migration and Development. New York/Londen: Routledge, pp. 172-192. 2003: (with Kenneth Madsen) Migration, identity and belonging. Journal of Borderland Studies, vol. 18. no. 1, pp. 61-75 2002: Henk van Houtum and Ton van Naerssen (eds) Bordering, Ordering and Othering. Journal of Economic and Social Geography/TESG. Special Issue. Volume 93, no. 2. Migrant entrepreneurship 2005: (with Ernst Spaan and Harry van den Tillaart) Asian immigrants and entrepreneurs in the Netherlands. In: (ed. with Ernst Spaan and Felicitas Hillmann). Asian migrants and the European labour markets. London. Routledge, pp. 238-261. 2004: (with C. Essers and M. van der Velde) Succes verzekerd? De slaag en faalfactoren van beginnende allochtone ondernemers in Gelderland (Success assured? Determinants of success and failure in starting migrant entrepreneurs in the province of Gelderland). Arnhen: Ontwikkelingsmaatschappij Oost Nederland , 52 pp. 2004: (with B. Sie) Grenzeloos ondernemerschap. De rol van sociale netwerken voor allochtoon ondernemerschap. (Entrepreneurship without borders. The role of social networks in migrant entrepreneurship). Arnhem: Ontwikkelingsmaatschappij Oost Nederland, 55pp. 2002: Waarom migranten kleding maken (Why migrants make clothes) (review article).Migrantenstudies, jrg. 18, no. 3, pp. 178-182. International Development 2008: Boekema, F., T. van Naerssen and A. Zoomers: Global Circulation and Territorial Development. Special Issue European Planning Journal., vol. 16, no. 7, pp. 893-983 2006: Mao Zedong. In David Simon (ed) Fifty Key Thinkers on Development. London. Routledge, pp. 161-165. 2006: Haalt China 2001? (Will China reach the year 2001? )In: Geografie, vol. 15, nr. 9, pp. 22-25. 2002: (co-editor with Bas Arts and Paul Hebinck) Voorheen De Derde wereld. Ontwikkeling anders gedacht. (Before: ‘The Third World’. Another way of Thinking on Development).Amsterdam. Mets and Schilt. 2002: Ontwikkelingstheorieën (Development theories). In: (co-editor with Bas Arts and Paul Hebinck) Voorheen De Derde wereld. Ontwikkeling anders gedacht. (Before: ‘The Third World’. Another way of Thinking on Development), pp. 162-190. 1997: (co-editor with Marcel Rutten en Annelies Zoomers) The Diversity of Development. Essays in Honour of Jan Kleinpenning. Assen: Van Gorcum (460 pp.) . 1992 (co-editor with Francien van Driel) (red.), Ontwikkelingstheorieën (Development Theories). Jubilee Issue. Derde Wereld (Third World),vol. 11, no. 1., 114 pp. Southeast Asia 2009: Ton van Naerssen and Gerard Kohl: Global cities in Zuidoost-Azie. Van Hanoi tot Manila. Geografie, vol. 18 (1), pp. 19-23. 2008: P. Druijven and T. van Naerssen: Zuidoost-Azie: ‘een regio tussen’ ( Southeast Asia.’ A region in between’, Geografie, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 6-7. 2005: Vietnam. De dertig jaar na het vertrek van de Amerikanen (Vietnam. Thirty years after the Americans left). In: Geografie, jrg. 14, no. 4, pp. 30-33. 2005: Vietnam in de regio Oost-Azie (Vietnam in the East Asian region). In Jan Donkers et al. Vietnam, Irak en de (on) macht van Amerika, Den Haag. Atlantische |Commissie. Atlantische Onderwijspaper 22. pp. 17-27. 1997: (co-editor with Peter Druijven) Pacifisch Azië (Pacific Asia). Assen. Van Gorcum (150 pp.). Indonesia/Malaysia 2002: Ernst Spaan, Ton van Naerssen and Gerard Kohl: Re-Imagining borders: Malay Identity and Indonesian Migrants in Malaysia. Journal for Economic and Social Geography/TESG. Volume 93, no. 2, pp. 160-172. 1990: (with A. van den Ham) Decentralization and Participatory planning in Indonesia. In : David Simon (ed.) Third World Regional Development: a Reappraisal. London, Paul Chapman, pp. 171 - 189. 1983: "A Tale of Two Towns". Afhankelijkheid, industrialisatie en regionale ontwikkeling in West- Maleisië. ("A tale of two towns". Dependency, Industrialisation and regional development in Peninsular Malaysia). Nijmegen, Ph.D. Social Sciences University of Nijmegen.. The Philippines 2005: (with Otto van den Muijzenberg) Metro Manila: Designers or directors of urban development? In Peter Nas (ed.) Directors of urban change in Asia. London: Routledge, pp. 142-165. 2005: Cebu City in the Global arena. Its governance and urban development policy. In; Philippine Journal for Culture and Society., vol. 32, nos.3/4, pp. 179-202. 2004: Filippijnen (The Philippines in 2003).Het jaar in woord en beeld. Encyclopedisch Jaarboek 2003. (The Year in Words and Pictures. Encyclopaedia 2003) Amsterdam: Elsevier/Kluwer/Het Spectrum. 2004: Globalization and urban social action. Philippine Studies, vol.51 (3), pp. 435-450 2004: Poldermodel in het stadsbestuur van Cebu City. In: Tambuli. Flippijnenmagezine, jrg. 20, no.4, pp. 4-7. 2002: (Guest editor). Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society. Vol. 29. Special Issue Metro Cebu and its region in the Global System (pp. 211-283).University San Carlos. Cebu. . Globalization and Urban Social Movements. The case of Metro Manila. In G. Persoon (ed.) The Philippines. Historical and Social Studies. Bijdragen tot de Taal-Land en Volkenkunde, vol.157, no. 3, pp.677-689 Various 2007: Croix, H. de la, I.Dumpel, T. van Naerssen and K. Portier: Gelders Blauw. Indische Nederlanders in de provincie. (Indonesian Dutch in the province of Gelderland). Nijmegen: B&N. 2001: De wereld volgens Castells (The World According to Castells).In: Geografie, vol.. 10, no. 5, pp. 32-38 Contact