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Constructing the moral and political (ir)responsibilities towards Syrian and Afghan refugees. A sociological discourse analysis on how Belgian media, the public, civil society and policy have responded to refugee demands. University of Antwerp

Gert Verschraegen
Centre for Migration and Intercultural Studies (CeMIS), Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City
This research project examines the social construction of moral and political responsibilities towards refugees. It thereby focusses on how different social actors, such as refugee organisations, policy makers and the media, compete with one another in defining and evaluating the claims of refugees.

Refugee for sale. A multi-methodological research project on international refugee organizations' public communication strategies on the Syrian and Central African refugee crises (2011-2018). Ghent University

Stijn Joye
Department of Communication Sciences

This multi-methodological project investigates the complex dimensions of international refugee organizationsU+2019 public communication strategies towards the recent Syrian and Central African crises, thereby focusing on (1) the production process by means of interviews with these organizations, (2) the discursive practices of representing refugees, and (3) the reception of the public communication efforts by citizens, refugees and relevant ...

Focusing on Refugees and Inclusion in European News Diversity Studies (FRIENDS) KU Leuven

Leen d'Haenens
Multimodality, Interaction and Discourse, Brussels Campus, Institute for Media Studies
This project aims to investigate the dynamic interplay between media representations of current non-EU immigration of asylum seekers, migrants and refugees and governmental (i.e. State and EU) and societal (re)actions. This project combines four complementary multi-stakeholder group perspectives in a unique way: 1) analysis of news media content; 2) analysis of journalism cultures and practices across the countries under study; 3) study of ...

Technologies of the displaced: governance, communication use and media experiences among Syrian refugees in Sanliurfa (South- Eastern Turkey) and Brussels (Belgium). University of Antwerp

Philippe Meers
Visual and Digital Cultures Research Center (ViDi)
This project studies the role of media and ICTs in the lives of refugees. These technologies, such as smartphones, tablets and laptops have become key resources for refugees. So far little systematic research has been done on this topic. Refugees are usually studied in terms of discourse and representation, i.e. as "passive", "voiceless" objects of study. This study, however, will take on an original, on-the-ground, perspective, looking at ...

Qualitative research with refugees on living in diversity. University of Antwerp

Gert Verschraegen
Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City
In the past years, Belgium, like the rest of Europe, experienced an exceptionally high influx of asylum seekers and refugees. This sudden influx poses special challenges for both the host community and the refugees. A large proportion of the refugees initially end up in "arrival districts" in large cities with a superdiverse population, where all kinds of economic, religious and ethnic fault lines run straight through each other (Geldof 2015, ...

Reframing migration and refugees KU Leuven

Baldwin Van Gorp
Institute for Media Studies

The attitude towards migration and refugees is believed to be negative in Europe. For example the majority of Europeans state that immigration numbers should be restricted (Esipova, Ray, Pugliese & Tsabutashvili, 2015). According to the Eurobarometer, 42% of the Belgians perceive immigration as the main challenge for the European Union (Eurobarometer, 2018). Additionally, it has also been shown that, on many places in Europe, polarisation ...

Labour market prospects of Ukrainian refugees KU Leuven

Eline Poelmans
Research Centre for Economics (ECON), Brussels Campus

This research aims to collect information about Ukrainian refugees arriving in Belgium after the Russian invasion in February 2022. The underlying goal is to find ways to improve their integration into the Belgian labour market. This is topical research that will evolve as the facts on the ground change. For now, the aim is to conduct a survey from (a sample) of Ukrainian war refugees. The benchmark of this survey will consist of ...

Towards the Emergence of Urban Asylum Regimes: Policies, Approaches and Consequences of the Reception of Refugees in European and US American Cities Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Bas van Heur
Cosmopolis Centre for Urban Research, Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences, Geography
Forced migration is a global phenomenon, which is politically regulated on supranational and national levels. However, it is the city where the arrival, accommodation and integration of refugees predominantly take place. Whereas current research explores the failures of nation-states to address the needs of refugees and to provide solutions to the challenges of housing and integration, there is a lack of scholarship on how urban policies will be ...

Sabbatical Lucia De Haene: Transcultural trauma care for refugees –Integrating pilot psychotherapeutic practices within a systemic & collaborative treatment mode KU Leuven

Lucia De Haene
Parenting and Special Education

I would like to orient this sabbatical period on the elaboration of a manual (in English) in transcultural, systemic and collaborative trauma care for refugees, in which research findings and clinical experience from ongoing intervention projects and psychotherapeutic practice are integrated into a vision description and guidance for care providers in transcultural psychosocial assistance. In this I aim to develop a therapeutic vision and ...

Forced Migration as Urban Development: The Emergence of Formal and Informal Planning Approaches for the Arrival and Settlement of Refugees Vrije Universiteit Brussel

René Kreichauf
Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences, Brussels Interdisciplinary Research centre on Migration and Minorities
The relation between asylum and urban planning tends to be
reduced to discussions about emergency measures, such as the
construction of asylum camps, rather than seeing refugees as longterm community members. Largely neglected by scholars, some
cities have nevertheless recognized the role of urban planning in
providing durable solutions for housing, neighborhood development,
and immigrant integration. This project ...