Projects
Moving towards Resilience: Joint creation through music and movement for local, refugee and immigrant children AP Hogeschool Antwerpen
Language for refugee children . KU Leuven
Cooperation agreement between the city of Leuven and Center for Language and Education on language support for refugee children by carrying out actions in primary and secondary schools. Implementation of a language policy and realization of a vision on education of the 21st century.
Towards integrated Practices of Schools, Reception Centres and Leisure Time Facilities for Refugee Children: an Action Research Karel De Grote Hogeschool
Towards integrated Practices of Schools, Reception Centres and Leisure Time Facilities for Refugee Children: an Action Research. University of Antwerp
Supporting refugee and migrant children’s mental health through fostering family-school interactions in school-based psychosocial intervention: Towards a grounded theory model on school-based collaborative mental health care KU Leuven
The impact of flight experiences on the psychological wellbeing of unaccompanied refugee minors Ghent University
Since early 2015, the media continuously confront us with images of refugee children drowning in the Mediterranean, surviving in appalling conditions in camps or walking across Europe. Within this group of fleeing children, a considerable number is travelling without parents, the unaccompanied refugee minors. While the media images testify to these flight experiences and their possible huge impact on unaccompanied minors’wellbeing, there has ...
Remembering trauma in between disclosure and silencing: A multiple case study with Kurdish refugee families in Belgium KU Leuven
Research on the psychosocial sequelae of collective violence and forced displacement increasingly investigates the potentially harmful impact of these disruptive life experiences on relational dynamics within refugee families. Meanwhile, studies explore how intra-family processes may constitute protective sources in reversing the adverse impact of traumatization and reconstructing life in exile. In this regard, trauma communication has been ...
Parentification in refugee families? The (de)/(re) construction of parent-child relationships Odisee vzw
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, ...