Projects
FAMILY SOLIDARITY 2.0: towards renewed solidarity in diverse families KU Leuven
What we mean by “family” has undergone radical changes in the past decades. We can observe an increasing plurality of constellations of living together (partnerships) and raising children (parenthood) that makes it difficult to define what actually makes a family “a family”. The many possible combinations of partnership and parenthood in our pluralistic society require that we conceptualize family as a more fluid concept that goes beyond the ...
FAMILY SOLIDARITY 2.0: towards renewed solidarity in diverse families Ghent University
FAMILY SOLIDARITY 2.0: towards renewed solidarity in diverse families. University of Antwerp
The Legal Value of the Principle of Solidarity in EU Asylum and Migration. University of Antwerp
The locality of transnational solidarity within the European Union (LOTSEU) Ghent University
This research project investigates local support for European Union (EU) wide solidarity policies among the citizenry. It combines earlier approaches taken in the field of European solidarity research with those of cleavage theory and political geography to shed light over the impact of small-scale contextual factors on public preferences towards an EU-wide social layer. To pursue this scientific endeavor I will, firstly, exploit a natural ...
Sabbatical Maarten Loopmans: solidarity, diversity and change KU Leuven
Diversity and social integration have been among the major issues of state governance in Europe since the early 19th century and have been intensely studied. Over the last decades, these subjects are resurging as policy concerns. Liberal democracies in Europe have been shaken to their core by a series of geopolitical, ecological and economic events in the wider region, including a global financial-economic crisis, a so-called ‘migration ...
Esilience and SOlidarity in intercultural encounters between displaced migrants and host society members: An ego-centered NETwork approach KU Leuven
This proposal develops and tests a comprehensive conceptual framework that examines social network configurations facilitating adjustment of displaced migrants to receiving societies.
Rights-based versus benevolent solidarity in European welfare states: the case of food banks and minimum income protection. University of Antwerp
Bloody diversity. The transformative capacity of blood donation among ethnic minorities in redefining citizenship and solidarity in ethnically diverse societies. Ghent University
In Europe, blood for transfusion is collected by national blood establishments Stimulated by EU policy guidelines on voluntary non-remunerated blood donation, they seek to persuade the population by emphasizing blood donation as a citizenship virtue and act of solidarity Despite sufficient blood supply, blood establishments insufficiently reach ethnic minorities Existing research has mainly asked why minorities do not donate, identifying ...