Ine Lietaert

Supervisor

Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy

Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences

Ine Lietaert holds a PhD in Social Work and works as an associate professor at the Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy where she teaches International Social Work and Mobility Justice. She combines this with a professorship in Migration Governance and Regional Integration Studies at the United Nations University- CRIS, where she coordinates the Migration and Social Policy research cluster. Her research focuses on the governance of ‘welfare’ and ‘mobility’. More specifically, she focusses on the impact of geopolitics, political economy and knowledge production – both globally and locally – on social work and social support, with particular attention for refugees, returnees, unaccompanied minors and (internally) displaced persons. She centralises the impact of im/material bordering processes and imaginaries on people's lives, paying attention to their sense of belonging, their survival strategies and their access to social support, through a socio-spatial research approach.

Email: Ine.Lietaert@UGent.be

Phone: +32 9 264 62 83

Research themes:

Borders, migration governance and people on the move || Civil society, social work and solidarity || Children, youth and families || Housing, home-making and urban mobilities