Projects
Experiences of corporality and embodiment in the care for female Islamic patients from Turkish and Moroccan descent: a multi-perspective qualitative study in acute care units of general hospitals in Flanders, Belgium. KU Leuven
The phenomenon of ethnic-cultural diversity in Flanders brings brought about many challenges. A particular challenge is situated on the level of hospital care for female Islamic immigrant patients from Turkish and Moroccan descent. Here, physicians and nurses are being confronted with ethnic-cultural challenges in the field of diagnostic and therapeutic treatment and care (like gender issues in gynecological research, or treatment plan ...
European Muslims and the End of Life. Turkish and Moroccan Attitudes towards Suffering, Dying and Mourning in Antwerp, Belgium KU Leuven
This interdisciplinary study, combining the perspectives of religious studies and comparative ethics, studies the religious and ethical attitudes, beliefs and practices regarding death and dying of Muslims of Moroccan and Turkish descent living in Belgium. By doing so, this study will reveal whether in our contemporary postmodern, multicultural and globalised society there is a need for specific measures in elderly care, ...
The established outsider and the welfare state. Explaining welfare state attitudes from the dual perspective of Turkish and Moroccan Belgians. KU Leuven
In current times of economic recession and increased migration flows within Western societies, the relation between the welfare state and migration receives much attention in both popular and scholar debates. The tensions regarding the migration-welfare state relation revolve predominantly around the demarcation of welfare policies. In other words, who’s in and who’s out? These questions gave rise to the extensive investigation of peoples’ ...
Negotiating solidarity. The shared history and heritage of Belgian civil society and postwar Muslim migration KU Leuven
This project, intertwining historical and anthropological approaches, critically analyzes and evaluates the interactions of multifaceted postwar Flemish/Belgian civil society with the country's Muslim communities of Moroccan and Turkish descent. An in-depth understanding of the multifold exchanges emerging since the 1960s between the country’s social movements and organizations, NGOs, religious institutes… and the growing communities of ...
Negotiating Solidarity: The shared history and heritage of Belgian civil society and postwar Muslim migration KU Leuven
Our research project aims to push the state of the art further in terms of subject and methodology by including the history of this migration as an essential part of the history of social movements as they developed over the last past decades. By combining both historical and anthropological approaches, it will critically analyze and evaluate the interactions of multifaceted postwar Flemish/Belgian civil society with Muslim communities of ...