Jan Breman#


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


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