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Josephine Lauferts

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Josie is a PhD candidate at Utrecht University researching the transnational circulation of knowledge and practices of social security for migrants in the Netherlands (1945-2017), funded by instituut GAK. Her research focuses on how different transnational actors (IOs, unions, activist groups) active in the welfare debate impacted the formation and development of Dutch social security policy, and through what avenues resistance to dominant neoliberal narratives emerged. Emphasis will be placed on the often “hidden” world of policy making by examining how ideas and knowledge circulate between actors beyond democratic political spheres. The research will focus on a group which has often fallen outside the scope of national welfare regimes, namely migrants. In doing so, the research will also uncover how labour migrants have organised in response to changing welfare regimes.

In 2024 Josie completed her research master in Global History at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) and won the Thesis prize of the FNV and De Burcht for her thesis on social reproduction theory within the trade union FNV during the second wave of feminism. 

Previously, Josie worked as a student assistant at the HUB Global Labour Conflicts, contributing to a new framework for conceptualising collective labour action. 

Josie