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Forced Displacement Urbanisms: Territorial Biographies and Contemporary Narratives in the Syrian Refugee Camps in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq KU Leuven

Heinz Nagler, Bruno De Meulder
Urban Design, Urbanism, Landscape and Planning

The past decade has witnessed one of the largest forced movements (internal and external) produced by armed conflict recorded, in particular, Syria (armed conflict) and Iraq (the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and internal feuds). The anthropologist Michel Agier (2008) read this phenomenon as the image of the 21st century where “a world of displaced and refugees (is) being created before our eyes” (Agier, 2008). This ...

Forced evictions and displacement; Patterns, processes and implications on the right to adequate housing for the urban poor in Nairobi, Kenya KU Leuven

Manuel Aalbers
Geography and Tourism

This research project focuses on the relationship between forced evictions, displacement, and the right to adequate housing in low-income neighborhoods in Nairobi, Kenya. The study investigates the historical context of forced evictions, and how they intersect with urban governance, policies, and global capital flows. Additionally, the research explores different forms of resistance to forced evictions and assesses their effectiveness in ...

In Vitro Angiogenic Sprout Forces: Microscopically Mapped 4D Matrix Displacements Coupled to Actomyosin-based Force Generation of Endothelial Sprouts KU Leuven

Hans Van Oosterwyck
BioMechanics (BMe), Membrane Separations, Adsorption, Catalysis, and Spectroscopy for Sustainable Solutions (cMACS), Laboratory of Angiogenesis and Vascular Metabolism (VIB-KU Leuven)

Angiogenesis - the formation of new blood vessels from the pre-existing vasculature - occurs in both physiological and pathological conditions and is a hallmark of a wide range of diseases. During sprouting angiogenesis, invading endothelial cells exert cellular traction forces at cell-cell and cell-matrix interaction sites. While leader cells pulling on follower cells, follower cells pushing on leader cells, or both, have previously been ...

Embodying Forced Migration Accounts within Devastated Middle Eastern Cultural Heritage Sites: A Physical-Virtual Memorial. University of Antwerp

Nele Wynants
Karel de Grote Hogeschool, Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA)
This practice-led research project intends to put forth an Extended Reality (XR)—computer-generated physical and virtual combined environments—experience to build on the strong sensory nature of lived experiences of forced migration. The aim is to situate the complex dynamics surrounding displacement and loss of material culture due to acts of war in the Middle East by asking how can sensory capabilities of XR-based technologies create an ...

Building Cohesion in Conflict and Displacement Context KU Leuven

Jo Swinnen
LICOS - Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, Research Centre of Development Economics, Leuven

This doctoral research explores the consequences of forced displacement and dynamics around refugees’ and hosts’ interaction in the labor market, as well as the building of social cohesion in complex contexts. The findings show that hosts experience either positive or null impacts on their welfare and labor markets outcomes when hosting refugees, while some are able to seize the opportunities arising from an increase in demand for goods and ...

The Power of the Bakwits: Towards a Theological Ethics of Displacement and Encounter KU Leuven

Annemie Dillen
Research Unit of Pastoral and Empirical Theology
Displacement is a common experience disrupting the lives of vulnerable people worldwide. Internally displaced people (IDP) experience forced displacement within borders. In Mindanao, Southern Philippines, IDPs are locally known as bakwits, a vernacular transliteration of the word “evacuate” to describe the phenomenon of social dislocation among indigenous communities. Being a people facing conflict and unsettlement, the bakwits are not merely ...

To Be Seen: Nubian Displacement and en-gendered Resistance in 'Public' Space. University of Antwerp

Els De Vos
Henry van de Velde
This project investigates how gender relations become manifest in the design, uses and representations of the built environment of displaced Nubians, an African population that was displaced and resettled in 1964, under a development-induced displacement and resettlement (DIDR) scheme. It does so in order to develop a toolkit for designers who want to work with marginalized communities.Gender aspects of disposition and post-displacement ...

“Righting” the Black Atlantic: Expatriate African American Writing for an Age of Involuntary Displacement KU Leuven

Pieter Vermeulen
English Literature, Leuven, English Literature, Brussels Campus

Starting from the observation that the critical vocabulary for transnational mobility is not adapted to the current unprecedented numbers of involuntarily displaced persons worldwide, this project aims to develop a novel account of the relation between mobility, literature, and human rights. More specifically, it updates the generative notion of the "Black Atlantic" by foregrounding the understudied role of juridical realities and imaginaries ...

Landlessness and Collective Violent REsistance to Mining Induced Displacement and Resettlement (MIDR) in Developing Countries: The Case of Anti-Phulbari Coal Mining Movement in Bangladesh Ghent University

Bert Suykens
Department of Conflict and Development Studies

This research project explores the role of landless people in collective resistance to Mining-Induced Displacement and Resettlement (MIDR)caused by the Phulbari Coal Mining project (Bangladesh). It explores the relationship between landlessness, forced displacement, exclusion, and collective resistance to fill a gap in MIDR scholarship, which has almost exclusively paid attention to effects of MIDR on people with formal land-rights.