Bio
Dr. Tamara A. Kool is a specialist in forced displacement, social (protection) policy and women economic empowerment. She has a regional focus on the Middle East, and more recently she is also looking at the Netherlands. Presently, she is a researcher at the Verwey-Jonker Instituut where amongst others she guides several projects on Particuliere Opvang - or the hosting of Ukrainian refugees amongst individual households, as well as the annual monitor on the implementation of the Law on Integration among municipalities. In addition, she has been working on the intersection between forced displacement and the right to social protection. In 2022, she obtained her PhD at Maastricht University on the role of refugee-related policies in shaping labour market engagement of regional-based refugees in the Jordan through the lens of social exclusion. Her work takes an interdisciplinary approach combining both development economics, social policy, sociology and legal analysis.
Relevant publications
- Kool, T.A. 2022. Beyond the Right to Work: Labour Market Engagement of Protracted Refugees Through a Social Exclusion Lens. UNU-MERIT/MGSoG Dissertation Series No. 272. Proefschrift-aio.nl. https://doi.org/10.26481/dis.20220519tk
- Kool, T.A., 2022. Resilience in Times of Forced Displacement: The Interlinkage between Social Protection and Right to Work. Maastricht Observatory on Resilient, Responsible, and Sustainable Enterprise and Economy. Maastricht University.
- Kool, T.A., Compagner, M., De Gruijter, M., and A. Omelianuk, 2023. Particuliere opvang Oekraïense ontheemden in Rotterdam. Onderzoeksrapport over de ervaringen van gasthuishoudens en Oekraïense gasten. Utrecht: Verwey-Jonker Instituut.
- Kool, T.A., and Z.S. Nimeh. 2021. Refugees and Social Protection. In E. Schüring and M. Loewe (eds.), Handbook of Social Protection Systems. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 401-422. Online version at: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839109119
- Nimeh, Z.S., Kool, T.A., Iacoella, F., and A. Hunns. 2020. Rethinking Humanitarian Aid: Making the Case for Humanitarian Social Protection. UNU-MERIT Working Paper #2020-053. Available at: https://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/wppdf/2020/wp2020-053.pdf