Projects
Qualitative research with refugees on living in diversity. University of Antwerp
Sabbatical Lucia De Haene: Transcultural trauma care for refugees –Integrating pilot psychotherapeutic practices within a systemic & collaborative treatment mode KU Leuven
I would like to orient this sabbatical period on the elaboration of a manual (in English) in transcultural, systemic and collaborative trauma care for refugees, in which research findings and clinical experience from ongoing intervention projects and psychotherapeutic practice are integrated into a vision description and guidance for care providers in transcultural psychosocial assistance. In this I aim to develop a therapeutic vision and ...
Recognition and protection of environmental refugees in the European Union Ghent University
Environmental degradation is causing millions of people to flee their environment. 'Environmental refugees' do not fit within the current international refugee definition. The research objective is to set forth solutions for the recognition and protection of environmental refugees, by an adaptation of existing mechanisms or the elaboration of a new protection regime, from the perspective of the European Union as a 'host' region for ...
The International Protection and Rights of 'Environmental Refugees' Ghent University
Environmental refugees are increasingly becoming a problem for the international community. Being forced to leave the homeland by external environmental factors, they currently have no legal right to protection, contrary to 'political' refugees. The research focuses firstly on an ecological migration typology ('refugee' versus 'migrant' versus 'displaced person'). Then it will be examined which current or future legal instruments can offer ...
Refugees' linguistic development: identification of challenges and differences with other categories of learners KU Leuven
Refugees in identity crisis Ghent University
Imagine a boy from Somalia who cannot prove his minority in order to be entitled to a guardian because he has no birth certificate.
Picture an Afghan couple, claiming for asylum, whose Iranian marriage certificate proves a religious marriage that was concluded in Iran when the girl was 16. Such legal issues – child in Somalia, but questioned in Belgium; married in Iran, but not in Belgium – relate to the recognition of personal status in ...
Suicidal behaviour, coping strategies and resilience among refugees in humanitarian settings in Northern Uganda Ghent University
The study seeks to examine the experiences of bereavement and recovery among family members and relatives of individuals with a history of suicidal behaviour in refugee settlements. The study will document risk and protective factors for suicide, coping strategies and resilience among survivors and (bereaved) family members, with the aim to improve suicide prevention and management in humanitarian settings.
Centre for the Social Study of Migration and Refugees (CESSMIR): Migration and Social Mobility: Creating Impact through Participation Ghent University
The interdisciplinary Centre for the Social Study of Migration and Refugees (CESSMIR) already recognizes Ghent University as ‘Centre of Excellence’ on the social dimensions of migration and fleeing. Through an increasing focus on participation in its diverse dimensions, this excellence will be further strengthened and the entire university community will be supported in the effective realization of impact on society from research.
A prosopographic approach to Belgian refugees in Birmingham, 1914-1919 Ghent University
This project aims at combining a prosopographic approach with postmemory method, applied to Birmingham as case-study, in order to attain deeper knowledge of the profile and the life trajectories of Belgian Refugees during the First World War. Both methods, as developed and applied in the project, will be analysed on their potential for future research in the history of education.