Projects
Towards operational cooperation on local administrative financial investigations in the fight against human trafficking KU Leuven
Local city government is confronted with indications of human trafficking:
- in the hotel and catering industry (cafés, bars, private clubs), massage salons, establishments for sexual activities, buildings for (window) prostitution, , - (= sexual exploitation)
- in hand-carwashes, night-shops, betting centers, housing foreign workers (= economic exploitation)
- in the public domain (= begging)
These ...
Quality Employment and Quality Public Services (in the Prison Services Sector and the Child Care Sector) KU Leuven
The goal of this research is to develop a framework for analyzing employment quality, applicable to childcare and prison services, as well as to investigate the relation with the quality of the services offered. Second, an assessment has to be made of the future trends in the relevant sectors in terms of employment growth, demographic change, and digitalization and how these are likely to impact on employment quality and quality of service. A ...
Remembering the City of Life. The literary memory of the occupation of Fiume (1919-2015) KU Leuven
In September 1919 a group of volunteers headed by the Italian poet Gabriele D’Annunzio occupied the town of Fiume (now Rijeka, Croatia) to claim its annexation to Italy. During the occupation, that lasted till December 1920, Fiume became a unique political and artistic labyrinth, attracting all sorts of political activists, as well as many Italian and foreign avant-garde artists. Extensive scholarly attention has been devoted to the ...