Projects
Labour Migration and Population Ageing: anlyzing the effectiveness of current labour market integration and job councelling trajectories for newly arrived immigrants and individuals with a migration background in Flanders. University of Antwerp
PALIM (Pilot Project Addressing Labour Shortages Through Innovative Labour Migration Models): analysis of settling in policies, integration actors and the single permit Ghent University
PALIM (Pilot Project Addressing Labour Shortages Through Innovative Labour Migration Models) is een pilootproject uitgevoerd door het Belgische ontwikkelingsagentschap Enabel, met de steun van de Europese Unie en het International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMDP). Het project wil een nieuw arbeidsmigratiemodel testen, door de ontwikkeling van de ICT-sector in Marokko te linken aan het gebrek aan goed opgeleide ...
Improving the Labour Market Position of People with a Migration Background in Belgium (IMMIGBEL). University of Antwerp
Improving the Labour Market Position of People with a Migration background in Belgium (IMMIGBEL). University of Antwerp
Labour markets and rural development: Perspectives on gender, migration and decent work KU Leuven
In recent decades, the rural labour markets of low and middle-income countries have changed tremendously. Off-farm employment forms a significant and growing share of household income portfolios, with employment in the agri-food sector playing a central role. In this thesis I aim to investigate the contribution of agri-food systems employment to rural development. More specifically, I unravel the links between agri-food systems employment and ...
The myth of no return. Return migration, mobility and the transnational lives of Moroccan and Italian labour migrants, 1945- 2015 Ghent University
Every migration stream generates a counter flow of return migration. In the field of migration studies, however, this return draws a lot less attention than the arrival and settlement of immigrants in the societies where most researchers are based. This is the case even in the research dealing with post war labour migration from the Mediterranean to the booming economies of Western Europe, where return was built into the discourse and ...
The labour market disadvantage of citizens with a migration background: from measuring to explaining and remedying (LAMIE). University of Antwerp
Five years after the migration crisis: how successful have the European and national frameworks been in integrating migrants in the labour market and providing them with access to education? A comparative research into the European and national … Hasselt University
Migration, (seasonal) labour and (r)urban arrival infrastructures in the Netherlands and Belgium KU Leuven
This PhD research is part of the Horizon2020 project ReROOT, investigating arrival infrastructures as sites of integration for newcomers. This research focuses on these arrival infrastructures in a rural-urban setting, taking labour migration as its vantage point. The research unravels questions of mobility and temporality by undertaking an ethnographic study amongst migrant workers in the agricultural regions of het Westland (NL) and ...