Sawitri Saharso is professor of intercultural governance at the University of Twente (Enschede). She is an associate professor at the Department of Sociology of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where she studied sociology and wrote her PhD (1992) on the identity of migrant youth in the Netherlands. Her research fields include the governance of migration, religious diversity and citizenship within a European comparative perspective, the comparative study of European integration policies, gender, migration and health, and gender and education.