Biography
I am an Associate Professor of Public Policy and Politics at the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, ÃÀÅ®¸£ÀûµçÓ°ÔºÎçÒ¹. My research explores stratification and social inequality, with a particular focus on immigrants’ economic disadvantage and integration, public policy, and intergroup prejudice and discrimination.
Currently, I examine how individual resources and institutional contexts, at both national and local levels, interact to shape ethnic and gender inequalities in European labor markets. As part of this work, I investigate disparities in access to labor market policy measures and their implications for inequality. I also employ quasi-experimental designs to estimate the causal effects of specific policy interventions on the integration outcomes of recent immigrants in Europe.
At Erasmus University, I teach undergraduate and graduate courses on public policy, migration and integration, and social inequalities.
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
- kanas@essb.eur.nl
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Work
- Leone Verweij, Agnieszka Kanas & Menno Fenger (2026) - - International Journal of Public Administration - doi: -
- Yuliya Kosyakova, Frank van Tubergen & Agnieszka Kanas (2026) - - Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, 52 (1), 85-104 - doi:
- Thijs Lindner, Asya Zhelyazkova & Agnieszka Kanas (2025) - -
- Thijs Lindner, Asya Zhelyazkova, Tim Heinkelmann-Wild & Agnieszka Kanas (2025) - - Governance, 38 (4) - doi:
- Agnieszka Kanas, Frank van Tubergen & Yuliya Kosyakova (2025) - - Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 52 (1), 85-104 - doi: -
- Nicolás Soler, Tom Emery & Agnieszka Kanas (2025) - - Sociological Science, 13, 589-613 - doi:
- Leone Verweij, Menno Fenger & Agnieszka Kanas (2024) -
- Agnieszka Kanas, Yuliya Kosyakova & Ehsan Vallizadeh (2024) - - Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, 22 (4), 847-861 - doi: -
- Frank van Tubergen, Yuliya Kosyakova & Agnieszka Kanas (2023) - - Social Science Research, 113 - doi: -
- Agnieszka Kanas & Menno Fenger (2023) - - Frontiers in Political Science, 5 - doi: -
- Thijs Lindner, Asya Zhelyazkova & Agnieszka Kanas (5 November 2025) - Pijnlijke keuzes vragen om duidelijke communicatie naar kiezers
- Agnieszka Kanas (2023) - Dutch Demography Day (Participant)
Activity: Attending an event › Academic - Agnieszka Kanas (2023) - ESPAnet 2023 (Participant)
Activity: Attending an event › Academic - Agnieszka Kanas (2023) - ESPAnet conference 2023 (Participant)
Activity: Attending an event › Academic - Agnieszka Kanas (2023) - Advisory committee for the LOCOV project (Consultant)
Activity: Consultancy › Professional - Agnieszka Kanas (2022) - Expert Workshop on Intra-EU Mobility (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Professional - Agnieszka Kanas (2022) - ESPAnet Conference 2022 (Participant)
Activity: Attending an event › Academic - Agnieszka Kanas (2022) - Frontiers in Political Science (Journal) (Reviewer)
Activity: Editorial work › Academic - AM (Agnieszka) Kanas (2022) - ECSR General Annual Conference Amsterdam (Participant)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Agnieszka Kanas (2022) - 14th INAS Annual Conference (Participant)
Activity: Attending an event › Academic - Agnieszka Kanas (2022) - International PIAAC Research Conference (Participant)
Activity: Attending an event › Academic
Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek- en Datacentrum
- Start date approval
- January 2024
- End date approval
- December 2026
- Place
- DEN HAGUE
- Description
- Advisory Committee
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- ESSB-BM1020
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- ESSB-B3MIN10
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- ESSB-SBC1081
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- FSWBM-4171
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- FSWGMD0020
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- FSWSB-1051
