Dr. V.E. (Vanessa) Vroon
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Exploring Diversity
Visiting address
- Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
Postal address
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Postbus 15509
1001 NA Amsterdam
Contact details
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Publications
2025
Vroon-Najem, V., & Moors, A. (2025). Contestations about polygyny: Converts to Islam in the Netherlands. In M. Stępień, & A. Juzaszek (Eds.), Relationships Rights and Legal Pluralism: The Inadequacy of Marriage Laws in Europe (pp. 143-156). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003470786-12 [details]
2023
- Moors, A., & Vroon-Najem, V. (2023). When Islamic Marriage Travels to the Netherlands: Convert Muslim Women (Re)Signifying the Marriage Guardian and the Dower. In J. McBrien, & A. Moors (Eds.), Muslim Marriage and Non-Marriage: Where Religion and Politics Meet Intimate Life (pp. 223-247). (Islam, Culture and Society). Leuven University Press. https://doi.org/10.11116/9789461665423, https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.5076197.13 [details]
2021
- Vroon‑Najem, V., & Moors, A. (2021). ‘Making Hijra’: mobility, religion and the everyday in the lives of women converts to Islam in the Netherlands. Contemporary Islam, 15(1), 35-55. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11562-021-00463-5 [details]
2020
- Moors, A., & Vroon-Najem, V. (2020). Converts, Marriage, and the Dutch Nation-state: Contestations about Muslim Women’s Well-being. In M. Tiilikainen, M. Al-Sharmani, & S. Mustasaari (Eds.), Wellbeing of Transnational Muslim Families: Marriage, Law and Gender (pp. 22-38). (Studies in Migration and Diaspora). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315231976-2 [details]
2019
- Vroon, V. E. (2019). Muslim Converts in the Netherlands and the Quest for a “Culture-Free” Islam. Archives de sciences sociales des religions, 186(2019/2), 33-51.
2014
- Vroon-Najem, V. (2014). Zusters in islam: religieuze socialiteit onder Nederlandse bekeerlingen. Religie & Samenleving, 9(2), 109-127. [details]
2023
- Hartman, C., & Vroon-Najem, V. (2023). Op zoek naar alternatieven: Ervaringen van mensen die met een sceptische blik naar corona kijken. Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau (SCP). https://www.scp.nl/publicaties/publicaties/2023/06/23/op-zoek-naar-alternatieven [details]
2017
- Vroon, V. E. (Author). (2017). Trouwen voor Allah – persoonlijke verhalen van bekeerlingen. Exhibition
- Vroon, V. E. (Producer), & van Wilgenburg, W. (Photographer). (2017). Trouwen voor Allah – persoonlijke verhalen van bekeerlingen. Digital or Visual Products
2014
- Vroon-Najem, V. E. (2014). Bekeerd. Uitgeverij KOMMA/d’jonge hond.
Media appearance
- Vroon, V. E. (18-01-2018). Single bekeerling ontdekt halal datingcircuit [Print] Regionaal Zaanstreek. Single bekeerling ontdekt halal datingcircuit.
Talk / presentation
- Moors, A. (speaker) & Vroon, V. (speaker) (11-6-2019). The multiple meanings of making hijra, Workshop on ‘Hijra’, Amsterdam.
- Moors, A. (speaker) & Vroon, V. (speaker) (6-2019). Navigating marrying ‘Islamically’ as a convert to Islam in the Netherlands, International ERC Muslim Marriages Workshop ‘The Multiple Materialities of Muslim Marriages’, Amsterdam.
- Moors, A. (speaker) & Vroon, V. (speaker) (9-2018). Doing Hijra/Coming Back: Transnational Mobility Among Converts to Islam in the Netherlands and screening video portrait from the exhibition Marrying Before Allah – Personal Stories of Converts, Conference ‘Leaving Europe, Alternative Routes of Out/Upward Mobility’, Leuven.
- Moors, A. (speaker) & Vroon, V. (speaker) (9-2018). Converts, Marriage, and the Dutch Nation-state: Contestations about Muslim Women’s Well-being, ‘Transnational Muslim Marriages: Wellbeing, Law, and Gender’, Helsinki.
Others
- Roei, N. (organiser), Pols, J. (organiser), Lane, M. (organiser), Stergioula, S. (organiser), Parry, M. (participant), Sezneva, O. (participant), Krause, K. (participant), Vroon, V. (participant), Yalciner, G. (participant), Camuti, F. (participant) & Phillips, S. (participant) (12-10-2023). ArtiC interfaculty meeting, Amsterdam. ArtiC interfaculty meeting (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
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Ancillary activities
No ancillary activities
Vroon-Najem, V., & Moors, A. (2025). Contestations about polygyny: Converts to Islam in the Netherlands. In M. Stępień, & A. Juzaszek (Eds.), Relationships Rights and Legal Pluralism: The Inadequacy of Marriage Laws in Europe (pp. 143-156). Routledge.