Publicaties
Migration information campaigns: how to analyse their impact? Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Information campaigns aim at discouraging potential migrants from leaving their countries irregularly. This article discusses how to analyse the impact of such campaigns by identifying different research lines in the literature. The impact of migration information campaigns may be explored by, firstly, focusing on transnational migratory data and inter-state relations (the macro-level); secondly, by investigating their impact on narratives ...
The role of narratives in migratory decision-making: A comparative study of Afghan transit migrants in Turkey and potential migrants in the Gambia Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Bureaucratic Migration Politics in West Africa: Opportunities and Dependencies Created by EU Funding Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The politicization and framing of migration in West Africa: transition to democracy as a game changer? Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The European and national parliaments in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice: do more interparliamentary fora lead to stronger cooperation? Vrije Universiteit Brussel
To what extent does the cooperation of national parliaments and the European Parliament strengthen the oversight of EU executive actors in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice? The article provides an ideal-typical conceptualisation of individual and joint parliamentary oversight in the EU’s multi-level system. Legislative scrutiny is examined for the case of the General Data Protection Regulation and agency oversight is analysed for the ...
The role of narratives in migratory decision-making: Analysing the impact of EU-funded information campaigns in the Gambia Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Migration and asylum in the EU: struggling to overcome policy deadlock Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Mainstreaming or retrenchment? Migration-related diversity in Dutch and Flemish education policies Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This article analyses how states adapt generic policies to the increasing diversity that characterises contemporary European societies. More particularly, it zooms in on how migration-related diversity is mainstreamed into education policies in the Netherlands and Flanders and why we observe different policy trends in these two cases. We find that the focus on migration-related diversity largely faded in Dutch education policies in the period ...
The Great Covid Paper Wall: European Strategies to Deal with Chinese Visa Restrictions Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Chinese authorities have installed visa restrictions and strict quarantine rules to prevent foreigners from spreading new infections to the country. This has disrupted a trend of increasing European Union (EU)-China travel and socio-economic exchanges. EU citizens living in or travelling to China have had to deal with the consequences of Beijing’s so-called Zero-Covid strategy. In view of quasi-closed ...