Publicaties
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 ...
Ethno-racial (in)equality: A typology of employment policy frames in Belgium Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This article analyzes the framing of ethno-racial inequalities within policy discourses. In particular, it sets out a typology to characterise different policy frames concerning ethno-racial (in)equality within Belgian employment policies. The typology conceptualises ‘ethno-racial (in)equality policy frames’ along two dimensions, distinguishing between colour-blind and colour-conscious policy frames, on the one hand, and redistributive and ...
The conditionality of EU freedom of movement: Normative change in the discourse of EU institutions Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Freedom of movement (FOM) in the European Union (EU) has become a highly salient issue in political and public debates. Most of the literature on FOM is heavily focused on the judiciary interpretation of this EU right, or on conflicting attitudes towards FOM within the national arena. However, the EU and its institutions as political actors that define and shape the content and meaning of FOM are largely absent from this literature. If ...
Ethno-racial (In)equality in Belgium and Germany: Understanding Policy Frames Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Monitoring the impact of doing nothing: New trends in immigrant integration policy Vrije Universiteit Brussel
‘Mainstreaming’ has recently been considered as a possible new strategy for advancing immigrant integration in Europe. However, policy documents and current academic literature have hardly conceptualized what we label as ‘ethnic equality mainstreaming’. In this article, we lean on the widely available research on gender mainstreaming, to provide such a conceptualization of ethnic equality mainstreaming. Once conceptualized, we verify whether ...