Jan Breman#
| Membership Number: | 299 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HUMAN MOBILITY, GOVERNANCE, ENVIRONMENT AND SPACE |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
Present and Previous Positions
- Emeritus professor of the University of Amsterdam
- 1987 Professor of comparative sociology at Amsterdam University
- 1974 Chair in the sociology of development at Erasmus University (the former Netherlands Economic School) in Rotterdam
- 1962 Staff member at Erasmus University (the former Netherlands Economic School) in Rotterdam
Fields of Scholarship
- Labour migration
- Social question in a global perspective
- Conditions of poverty
- Employment and labour relations in contemporary Asia
- History of colonialism
Honours and Awards
- 1988 Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Member of the board of the Royal Netherlands Institute for Anthropology and Languages (KITLV)
- Member of the South Asia Committee of the American Social Science Research Council
- Member of the Committee on Asian Studies of the European Science Foundation
- Member of the International Institute of Asian studies
- Member of the Netherlands Foundation for Tropical Research (WOTRO)
- Member ofthe International Institute of Social History (IISG)
- Fellow of the Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2009 Honorary Doctorate at Institute of Social Studies (ISS)
- 2024 Named Top Scholar by ScholarGPS
