Projects
Making Migrant Voices Heard through Literature: How Collaboration Is Changing the Cultural Field KU Leuven
As initiatives for more diversity and inclusiveness in the cultural field are gaining ground and migration becomes an increasingly important issue on the political agendas of many countries around the world, this project examines the ways in which transnational collaborations create spaces for literary participation of migrants. Situated at the intersection between international relations, comparative literature and business economics, COLLAB ...
Making Migrant Voices Heard through Literature: How Collaboration Is Changing the Cultural Field KU Leuven
As initiatives for more diversity and inclusiveness in the cultural field are gaining ground and migration becomes an increasingly important issue on the political agendas of many countries around the world, this project examines the ways in which transnational collaborations create spaces for literary participation of migrants. Situated at the intersection between international relations, comparative literature and business economics, COLLAB ...
An empirical study of language tests as part of an integration policy. Implications for low-educated, low literate migrants. KU Leuven
In applied linguistics, there is comparatively little theoretical or empirical research into low-literate, low-educated (LESLLA) learners. The characteristics of a language test that can be used for these L2 learners in the context of migration have not typically been the topic of research. At the same time, in a growing number of European nations, LESLLA migrants are required to prove proficiency in an official language of the host country ...
Low-literate parents in interaction as well! (The development of course- and evaluation materials for low literate immigrant parents). KU Leuven
Negotiating Migrant Protection: Security and Protection at Europe’s Borders. KU Leuven
The research project I would like to accommodate at KU Leuven examines how migrant protection is arranged, negotiated and possibly contested at different types of EU borders, at diverse sites and migrant routes, and in interaction with practices of securitizing migration. The project focuses on the actual ways in which protection is negotiated in concrete protection practices and policies under conditions of increasing securitization. The ...
School-based psychosocial care for refugee and migrant young people: A mixed-method exploration of the role of schools and school-based psychosocial interventions in shaping well-being and relational processes of post-trauma reconstruction. KU Leuven
European host societies face the challenge of supporting the well-being and mental health of refugee and migrant youth. With a growing number of studies describing the at-risk mental health status of young refugees and migrants and the role of host societal and relational dynamics in their mental health, schools and school-based psychosocial interventions are increasingly put forward to promote young refugees’ and migrants’ well-being and ...
Migrant incubators of development? The offshore infrastructures of Gulf medical training in Europe Ghent University
Social science literature on migration from the MENA region to Europe suffers from an over-focus on refugees, radicalization, and failed ‘integration’. This project offers a novel approach by insisting on the productive potential of the ‘migratory optic’ and focusing on one particular, but enduring form of Middle Eastern immigration that has escaped scholarly attention: that of well-to-do newcomers from the Gulf Arab states who study, work, ...
Misfit in opinions about migrant integration and its political consequences KU Leuven
The research project aims to discover when and why host majority members will support the exclusion or inclusion of immigrant minorities. The project will consider when and how these attitudes translate into political outcomes such as support for specific policies or radical political action to exclude or include immigrant minorities. The Belgian National Election Survey (BNES) will be used along with administrative and digital geospatial ...
An exploratory study on communication problems in interpreter-mediated consultations with migrant oncology patients KU Leuven
Effective doctor-patient communication is of paramount importance in healthcare as an indicator for care quality and for affecting health outcomes. Due to the specific problems inherent in cancer and the complex decision making during emotional and value-laden topics, effective doctor-patient communication in oncology settings is very challenging. Furthermore, literature clearly demonstrates that when physicians and patients do not share a ...