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Het asiel- en migratiebeleid van de afgelopen legislatuur gewikt en gewogen : overheden falen vanuit wetenschappelijk en mensenrechtenperpectief Ghent University
Migratierecht : tussen mens en staat Ghent University
Migratierecht : tussen mens en staat Ghent University
Waarom hebben sommige mensen een visum nodig om naar België te komen en anderen niet? Waarom verlopen verblijfsprocedures voor de ene veel moeilijker dan voor de andere? Migratierecht is complex en technisch, zelfs voor juristen. Ellen Desmet neemt je mee in het labyrint van het migratierecht aan de hand van negen verhalen. Ze sprak hiervoor met negen personen uit verschillende hoeken van de wereld, die om uiteenlopende redenen naar België ...
Procedural (in)justice for EU citizens moving to Belgium : an inquiry into municipal registration practices Ghent University
Moving as a French or Dutch citizen to Belgium should be easy, given the freedom of movement of EU citizens. Reality paints a different picture, however. This paper analyses the practices of Belgian municipalities and the Immigration Office as to the registration of EU workers, self-employed, jobseekers and their family members. It is based on a desk study, a survey among a sample of municipalities as well as semi-structured interviews with ...
Right-wing populism, crumbling migrants’ rights and strategies of resistance in Belgium Ghent University
This chapter adopts a two-stage analysis of legal resilience against far-reaching restrictions of migrants’ rights. It first investigates the resilience of the Belgian constitutional system against potential hostile take-over by right-wing populists. It is concluded that the constitutional framework provides relatively robust protection against democratic decay, as a result of which the separation of powers remains intact. At the same time, most ...
Legal consciousness and migration : towards a research agenda Ghent University
This paper reviews scholarship regarding migrants' legal consciousness. After discussing the personal, geographic and methodological scope of the reviewed studies, the conceptualisation of legal consciousness is examined in light of evolutions in general legal consciousness studies. Thereafter, factors emerging as shaping migrants' legal consciousness are analytically clustered at four levels: individual characteristics, relational factors, ...
Moving to Belgium as an EU citizen : registration formalities for EU workers, self-employed persons, jobseekers and their family members in Belgium, with a comparative outlook Ghent University
The study 'Moving to Belgium as an EU citizen' points out a number of shortcomings in the registration formalities of EU citizens in the municipality. It contains recommendations to guarantee the free movement of EU workers, self-employed persons and jobseekers and their families. The researchers believe that a revision of the registration formalities appears necessary and opportune with the new migration code in prospect. They also regret that ...