Projects
Blocking immune cell migration into the brain: a targeted therapy for autoimmune and neurodegenerative diseases Hasselt University
The Legal Value of the Principle of Solidarity in EU Asylum and Migration. University of Antwerp
Towards a better understanding of climate (im)mobility: identifying environmental shocks, the role of retain factors and dynamics in migration decisions Ghent University
Huge predictions of climate migration are put forward in the public debate. Yet, current academic studies come to different conclusions or often do not seem to pick up a clear positive effect of environmental shocks on migration. The project aims to improve the identification of the impact of environmental shocks on (im)mobility in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), a region extremely vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. It brings a new ...
Divergence and convergence in the history of the Shona languages: contact, migration, and change in a subgroup of Southern African Bantu Ghent University
The Shona languages of Southern Africa form a large, closely-related and relatively well-studied group of Bantu languages. Despite a wealth of synchronic data on these language varieties, the history of Shona languages and their speakers is not well-understood. I will test a new proposal that would revolutionize the understanding of Shona’s linguistic history by recognizing what has been referred to as a ‘spread-over-spread’ event, bringing ...
Culturally competent and sensitive care: study on perceptions, needs and barriers of healthcare professionals and informal carers to improve quality of care for patients with a migration background Vrije Universiteit Brussel
increasing number of patients from diverse ethnic, religious and linguistic background. Scientific
research highlights that patients from minority groups receive lower quality of care, and inequities
and disparities towards these groups can be found in healthcare.
Culturally competent and sensitive care is often cited as a ...
The impact of the sharing economy on new publication practices in contexts of migration KU Leuven
This PhD in Sociology of Literature and Business Economics is part of the ERC Starting Grant Project COLLAB at KU Leuven. Whilst collaborating with other researchers at the intersection of international relations, comparative literature and business economics, this position focuses on the relationship between the sharing economy and contemporary publication systems in contexts of migration. By using both DH and qualitative methods ...
Abundant Life: The Theology of Resurrection in the light of Migration KU Leuven
Reflecting on the phenomenon and the problem of migration, diverse scholarly studies easily adopt a sociological, practical-theological, ethical or narrative-biblical approach. These approaches are not the focus of our research. In the first chapter, we offer an analysis of the theological literature on migration. These analyses then bring us to the second chapter with the central focus on a systematic-theological reflection. Based on a ...
Migration and livelihoods: reshaping families, family matters, kinship and human security among the Gamo of Southern Ethiopia KU Leuven
The project will have a particular focus on the entanglement of rural-urban mobility and new modalities of kinship and relatedness shaped in and across the locales of departure and destination, and how these generate newly defined relations of interdependencies, transactions, care, reciprocity in the ambivalence of social distance and proximity
Spatial analysis of rural-urban migration and the growth of secondary cities in Sub-Sahara Africa. Case study: Jimma zone (SW-Ethiopia) KU Leuven
Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to rapidly urbanize in the coming decades, with the capital city absorbing the majority of the expansion while secondary cities lag behind, resulting in inequitable networks of management challenges for these cities. Migration is a significant contributor to urban growth and the urbanization process. Since the middle of the past century, rural-urban migration has been a persistent phenomenon in developing ...