Karin de Vries

Curriculum vitae
Karin de Vries obtained her PhD from the VU University in 2012, for a thesis on the Dutch Act on Integration Abroad. Between 2006 and 2011 she worked at the VU University as a PhD researcher and teaching assistant with the Migration law section of the Department of Constitutional and Administrative law. Before this she was a policy officer at the Advisory Committee on Migration Affairs (Adviescommissie voor Vreemdelingenzaken). From 2011 to 2012 Karin was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. She returned to the VU University in August 2012.

Educational activities
Constitutional law
Bachelor’s thesis
Model Dutch Parliament (Studentenparlement).

Research activities
In her dissertation Karin de Vries describes the standards set by European and international immigration law with regard to pre-entry integration tests for immigrants, and the Dutch Act  on Integration Abroad in particular. She also writes articles and case comments in the field of (European) immigration law, citizenship and integration requirements in Dutch and EU law, human rights and migration law and the prohibition of discrimination on grounds of nationality and race.

Expertise
Constitutional law, human rights, (European) migration law, citizenship and integration, non-discrimination.

• ‘Integration at the Border. The Dutch Act on Integration Abroad and International Immigration Law’ (proefschrift VU), (forthcoming from Hart Publishers in 2013)
• ‘The equality clauses in the EU directives on non-discrimination and migration/asylum’, in S.Morano-Foadi & M. Malena, Integration for Third-Country Nationals in the European Union (forthcoming from Edward Elgar Publishers in 2012), with S. Morano-Foadi
• ‘An Assessment of ‘Protection in Regions of Origin’ in Relation to European Asylum Law’, European Journal of Migration and Law 2007 (1), p. 83-103