Tom Nijs

Tom Nijs is a researcher affiliated with the European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations (ERCOMER) and the Interuniversity Centre for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS) at Utrecht University, and holds a position in the Governance and Pluralism group at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Nijs works on intergroup relations, with particular attention to collective psychological ownership and how majority and minority group members perceive territorial and epistemic belonging within national contexts. Additional research addresses interethnic friendship networks among ethnic minority youth, the role of misperceptions in shaping intergroup attitudes, and the relationship between negative intergroup contact and radical right-wing voting.