Projects
International Migrants Values StudyInsights on the cultural and political consequences of international migration KU Leuven
Unveiling international environmental migration and the migration-adaptation nexus. A Belgian case-study - second phase (MIGRADAPT-2). University of Antwerp
Unveiling international environmental migration and the migration-adaptation nexus. A Belgian case-study (MIGRADAPT). University of Antwerp
International Migration and Refugee Law Moot Court Competition Ghent University
The first International Migration and Refugee Law Moot Court Competition was organized by the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2019. The Ghent University team won the first edition and will organize the next edition in March 2022 (after postponement due to Covid in 2020). A moot court simulates a court hearing, (i.e. an appeal against a negative decision regarding an international application) in which participants file a legal submission, ...
Consequences and Policy Implications of International Migration Ghent University
Never before have so many people been living outside their country of birth. If migration keeps growing at its current pace, the global migrant stock could grow from 214 to 405 million between 2010-2050. A clear understanding of its causes and effects is crucial to develop sound policies to manage it.
Despite significant process in the recent literature, a number of key issues still need exploring. The project has two main objectives and ...
Research in the field of international migration and integration of immigrant communities. University of Antwerp
Families on the Move: The Coordination between international family law and migration law Ghent University
FAMIMOVE’s general objective is to contribute to the effective and coherent application of the EU acquis in the field of international
family law, in particular by ensuring more awareness of international child protection instruments applicable to migrant children. To
this end, the project seeks to implement the recommendations of the studies published in June 2017 by the European Parliament’s
Committee on Legal Affairs ...
Identity negotiations at work of women with a migration background: Combining interactional sociolinguistic and social psychological analyses to advance our understanding of group affiliation and distancing KU Leuven
In the last few decades, the notion of identity negotiations has become very popular as a research topic in numerous disciplines as diverse as anthropology, literature, history, psychology and linguistics. While there are some common threads in these different approaches to identity, there is actually little cross-fertilization. This lack of interplay is particularly a pity for the fields of interactional sociolinguistics and social ...
How Do Migration Networks Facilitate African Student Mobility and Integration In China? - - A Social Network Perspective on South-to-South Migration KU Leuven
My proposed research project focuses on the South-to-South Brain Drain from Africa to China. In particular, I am interested in the education and occupation composition of these African student migration groups in comparison to the other African global mobility patterns, their different migration destination allocation within China, and their social assimilation with the local community and communication within their own immigrant groups ...