Publications
Virtual Innocence. On the status of the Children of European departees in northeast Syria. KU Leuven
Leaving Europe, Navigating Access: Status Migration, Traveling Habitus, and Racial Capital in Euro-Maghrebi Mobilities to the United Arab Emirates KU Leuven
This doctoral thesis is an ethnographic study that examines the emigration motives and social itineraries of second-generation Euro-Maghrebis who resettle to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) using a qualitative methodology. It focuses in particular on tertiary-educated EU citizens born and raised in Belgium, France and the Netherlands, who had at least one parent born in Morocco, Algeria or Tunisia, and who were themselves either working ...
Leaving Europe: Emigration, aspirations and pathways of incorporation of Maghrebi French and Belgians in Montréal KU Leuven
When it comes to migration, Western European countries such as Belgium and France are typically described as destination countries. Yet, emigration remains an important phenomena in most of European societies. This emigration is often portrayed as somehow different from migrations 'from the South.' The western European migrant - sometimes referred to as 'expat' - is generally depicted as a dynamic individual characterized by an entrepreneurial ...