Projects
Exploring the connections between religious education and migration: Diaspora influence over Qur'anic school attendance in Senegal. University of Antwerp
Feeding the ties with 'home': the role of the Moroccan diaspora policies in the transnational ties of the postmigration generation. University of Antwerp
Dis/ability as an Emerging Global Identity: Im/material Entanglements of Congolese People in Kinshasa and the Diaspora KU Leuven
This work is grounded in the ‘alongly integrated knowledge’ of people from Kinshasa, the capital of DR Congo, and Belgium who identify with the condition of physical impairment. The research has mainly been an exercise in thinking about something that seems rather limited in relation to something that appears to be unbounded.
This anthropological research starts from corporeality or the lived (co-)experience. The main participants in ...
Multilingualism and the social media when used in the diaspora: practices of code selection/switching by Facebook users of Iranian descent in Belgium Ghent University
The project investigates aspects of multilingualism on Facebook, in particular code selection/code switching by language users of Iranian descent in a Belgium. The focus is three-fold: (i) the distributional salience of the various languages used, (ii) their functional role in the interactional architecture of social media, (iii) the
connections with the construction of a diasporic space characterized by fragmented/dislocated ...
Development in the Age of Diaspora: Mobilising Zimbabwean Migrants in the United Kingdom KU Leuven
Since a 2002 World Bank report outlined that remittances from poor migrants in rich countries outstrip the combined total of official development assistance, there has been renewed scholarly interest approaching the diaspora as a development panacea. The so-called migration-development nexus views diaspora as new development financiers and actors with strong socio-cultural ties to their home countries. This research seeks to upend that ...
Cinema & diaspora.A comparative study into ethnic film cultures in Antwerp: Bollywood, Northern African, Turkish and Jewish cinema. University of Antwerp
‘Little by little grow the bananas.’ The lucrative relations of the Congolese diasporas in Belgium, France and The Netherlands with their homeland, the Democratic Republic of Congo. A gendered perspective. KU Leuven
Online religion in a transnational context: representing and practicing Jainism in diasporic communities Ghent University
This research seeks to identify and understand developments in diasporic Jainism through an exploration of online activity related to Jainism and a set of interviews conducted in different communities. Thus, it will address different currents in contemporary Jainism, but also function as a case-study on the dynamics of religion in the context of migration and the role of ICT therein.