Dr R. van Oers (Ricky)

Ricky van Oers is Assistant Professor of Sociology of Law and Migration Law with a specific interest in the topic of 'Migrant inclusion: social justice, information and communication'. She defended her PhD research Deserving Citizenship. Citizenship Tests in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK (Brill, 2014) at the Radboud University. The dissertation was awarded one of five Research Prizes by the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation.

In 2025, Ricky van Oers received a NWO XS grant to study the role of social class for people on the move . An immigrant’s social class position shapes their ability to navigate migration laws and acquire a legal migration status. Once settled, laws and policies will determine which constraints immigrants will face and which opportunities they are offered, thereby affecting their class position. By analyzing the interaction of social class and laws and policies both pre-and post-mobility, the present project addresses a gap in our knowledge on the functioning of social class in immigrants’ lives. The project is part of the broader 'Migration-Class Nexus' project.

Ricky van Oers studied law at Radboud University and the Université Paris Descartes. Between April 2021 and July 2026, Van Oers was Professor of Immigrant inclusion & law (20%) at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, where she participated in the IMPECT project (Linguistic Integration of Adult Migrants with Poor Education and the Consequences of Migration Tests).