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Exiled and separated: a multi-sited ethnography of Eritrean refugees and their families attempting to reunite. University of Antwerp

Gert Verschraegen
Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies (CeMIS)
Most European states allow refugees to access a facilitated procedure to reunify with their family members. Many studies, however, high-light how issues of timing, documentation and economic resources often make family reunions extremely difficult, if not impossible. If much has been written on the obstacles faced migrants in this regard, little is known about the specific case of refugees. Through a multi-sited ethnographic study with refugees ...

The professional way to U+2018do goodU+2019: A multi-sited ethnography of professionalization processes in the European and Flemish fields of volunteer management Ghent University

Raf Vanderstraeten
Department of Sociology

In recent years, U+2018volunteeringU+2019 has become an object of intensified public interest and promotion, including intensive efforts to manage it in U+2018effectivelyU+2019 and U+2018professionallyU+2019. Scholars of volunteering often tend to support these efforts though instrume

Rebuilding home in different citizenship regimes. How Syrian refugees reconstruct their social lives, experience belonging and organise themselves in two European cities and their hinterlands. Ghent University

Sami Zemni
Department of Conflict and Development Studies

Since 2015 more than one million Syrians have fled to Europe. Government officials increasingly seem to consider sending them U+2018backU+2019 as soon as the Syrian conflict calms down. Yet where do Syrians themselves think they belong? The home they left behind is

Elucidating psychological and social risk factors for low back pain in highly physically active adolescents: a case study in female pre-professional dancers. University of Antwerp

Nathalie Roussel
Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA), Movement Antwerp (MOVANT)
The general purpose of this study is to elucidate psychological and social risk factors for low back pain (LBP) in highly physically active adolescents. Using a qualitative research design, we will explore perceived causes (psychological and social) of LBP using female pre-professional dancers as a case study. This will lay the foundation for fundamental prospective studies examining causes of LBP in adolescents. Low back pain (LBP) is the ...

The effectiveness of social policy targeted at households with disabled children in Flanders: does the existing set of social policies succeed in reducing the poverty risk of disabled children? University of Antwerp

Sarah Marchal
Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy
Families with disabled children combine both direct and indirect costs that likely have a negative impact on their poverty risk. First, they face higher direct costs due to the child's medical and care needs. Second, they face higher indirect costs as they need to provide more care which jeopardises the parents' engagement in the labour market. On top of that, families with disabled children often have a lower socioeconomic status than families ...

Normative and intentional development of teacher social-emotional skills and their relationships with student achievement and socialemotional skills. Ghent University

Filip De Fruyt
Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology

Teachers have been ascribed a central role in studentsU+2019 learning and development. Especially how
teachers relate to their students was proposed as a key factor explaining learning effects and
teacher effectiveness. However, recent meta-analytic research suggests that teachersU+2019 self-efficacy
and personality traits show only small associations with student academic performance.
TodayU+2019s thinking in education ...

A culturally-sensitive stigma survey among adolescents in Flanders: Understanding causes and consequences to tackle stigmatisation Ghent University

Piet Bracke
Department of Sociology

Despite efforts to destigmatise mental health care seeking, talking
about psychological problems and seeking professional help,
generally remain taboo among Flemish adolescents. In this project
we will explore how teenagers think about mental health problems,
what stigmatising attitudes they develop and what kind of help
seeking they advise to their peers. To date, Flemish adolescentsU+2019
stigmatising attitudes ...

Researching the role of social work in the non-take-up of welfare rights: a retrospective analysis of the pathways of people in poverty Ghent University

Griet Roets
Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy

Although people in poverty are formally entitled to welfare rights, recent research shows that they
often do not take up these rights in practice. Hence, this research project aims to acquire thorough
insights in the complex processes at play in the (non-)take-up of welfare rights in situations of
poverty and to examine the role of social work in this context. The project builds on three basic
premises: (1) it captures the ...

Borders and Borderlands Revisited: A Visual and Mixed-method Study of Liminal Spaces and 'In Situ' Experiences University of Antwerp

Luc Pauwels
Visual and Digital Cultures Research Center (ViDi)
This research project investigates the varieties and dimensions of borders in selected border spaces by documenting the visual and multimodal manifestations of a diversity of borders (geopolitical and non-geopolitical), and through researching their impact on peoples' lives. It advocates and constructs an innovative mixed methodology for studying different aspects of semiotically-charged border spaces which allows to focus on both visual ...

Subtle discrimination of ethnic minority and disabled employees at work: Reconnecting inter-individual experiences to macrostructures of inequality Hasselt University

Patrizia ZANONI
Diversity
Research on workplace discrimination has increasingly turned its attention towards 'subtle' discrimination. Subtle discrimination in the workplace refers to unequal treatment that negatively affects its victim, yet that is engrained in practices that are generally seen as harmless and potentially enacted unconsciously by individuals without necessarily discriminatory intentions. By adopting a perspective informed by critical race theory and ...