Robin Vandevoordt

Supervisor

Department of Conflict and Development Studies

Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy

Faculty of Political and Social Sciences

Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences

Robin Vandevoordt is an Associate Professor in Migration studies at CESSMIR. He leads ethnographic research on two topics: social movements in solidarity with people on the move, and the role of different actors entangled in migration and integration policies. Before joining Ghent University, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Oxford University’s Refugee Studies Centre and at the University of Antwerp’s Centre for Research on Ecological and Social Change (CRESC).

Email: Robin.Vandevoordt@UGent.be

Research themes:

Civil society, social work and solidarity || Borders, migration governance and people on the move