Status Finished

SEMID-EU: Services and support needs of migrants who use drugs and live in vulnerable situations in the EU

Promotors: Wouter Vanderplasschen
Researchers: Aline Pouille
Faculties: Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Period: 2022 – 2023
Themes: Health, health care and psychosocial well-being
Attitudes of Teachers towards Multilingualism at School

Promotors: Evelien D'haeseleer, Kristiane Van Lierde
Researchers: Julie Daelman, Yana Nys
Faculties: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Period: 2020 – 2023
Themes: Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality
Institutional multilingualism in settings of asylum and migration: a linguistic-ethnographic study of global English use in lingua franca and interpreter-mediated interaction at the Belgian asylum authorities

Promotors: Katrijn Maryns
Researchers: Katrijn Maryns
Themes: Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality
Language and employability. A sociolinguistic ethnography of the activation of migrant job seekers in Flanders

Promotors: Sarah Van Hoof, Alfonso Del Percio
Researchers: Sara Nyssen
Themes: Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality, Work
Multilingualism and the social media when used in the diaspora: practices of code selection/switching by users of Iranian descent in Belgium

Promotors: Slembrouck Stef, De Bot Kees
Researchers: Elmianvari Azadeh
Themes: Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality
Research project Evaluation Zanzu.be

Promotors: Katrijn Maryns, Ellen Van Praet, July De Wilde
Researchers: Pauline Van Daele
Themes: Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality
Secure bilingual capital. Language, ethnicity and the making of security officers in Brussels

Promotors: Sarah Van Hoof, Alfonso del Percio
Researchers: Sibo Kanobana
Themes: Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality
Video-remote interpreting in the Fedasil reception network

Promotors: Katrijn Maryns, July De Wilde
Researchers: Marie Gijsels
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2021 – 2022
Themes: Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality
Analyzing conflict mobilities from Uganda’s Nakivale Refugee Settlement: embedding refugee mobility into the broader migration (hi)story of Central-East Africa

Promotors: Koen Vlassenroot
Researchers: Jolien Tegenbos
Themes: Refugee camps and asylum centres
Language barriers and multilingualism in sexual and reproductive healthcare: A linguistic ethnography of an abortion clinic

Promotors: July De Wilde
Researchers: Ella van Hest
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2019 – 2023
Themes: Health, health care and psychosocial well-being, Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality
I cross the border and carry with me… Cross-border civil status: a private international law issue from a human rights perspective

Promotors: Jinske Verhellen
Researchers: Sarah Den Haese
Period: 2016 – 2021
Themes: Children, youth and families, Migration law, migrants rights and legal Identity
Adjusting Multilingual Information provision on Communication needs in Asylum reception (AMICA)

Promotors: Katrijn Maryns, July De Wilde
Researchers: Aline Guaus
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2019 – 2022
Themes: Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality
Inclusive, holistic care for migrant victims of sexual violence (INHeRE)

Promotors: Ines Keygnaert, Ilse Derluyn
Researchers: Leni Linthout, Ines Keygnaert, An Verelst, Nikolett Szelei
Faculties: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Period: 2019 – 2021
Themes: Discrimination, racism and prejudice, Health, health care and psychosocial well-being, Human smuggling, human trafficking and exploitation
Recovery of problem substance use among persons with a migration background and ethnic minorities: an analysis of lived experiences

Promotors: Wouter Vanderplasschen, Freya Vander Laenen
Researchers: Aline Pouille
Faculties: Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Faculty of Law and Criminology
Period: 2018 – 2023
Themes: Health, health care and psychosocial well-being
Multilingualism in Secondary Education in Flanders: The Dynamics of Language Policy

Promotors: Wendelien Vantieghem, Piet Van Avermaet
Researchers: Maxime Van Raemdonck
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2019 – 2023
Themes: Children, youth and families, Discrimination, racism and prejudice, Education and training, Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality
REMEDI – General Practitioners’ Recommendations to Patients with Mental Health Problems and Diverse Migration Backgrounds

Promotors: Piet Bracke, Vincent Lorant
Researchers: Melissa Ceuterick, Katrijn Delaruelle, Camille Duveau, Camille Wets
Faculties: Faculty of Political and Social Sciences
Period: 2020 – 2023
Themes: Discrimination, racism and prejudice
Returning home: A mixed-methods study on the relationship between repatriates’ social capital and their psychological well-being

Promotors: Peter Stevens, Smaranda Boros
Researchers: Lore Van Gorp
Themes: Health, health care and psychosocial well-being
POTENTIAL. Power to teach all. Competence development to create inclusive learning environments

Promotors: Piet Van Avermaet
Researchers: Wendelien Vantieghem, Iris Roose
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2016 – 2019
Themes: Children, youth and families, Discrimination, racism and prejudice, Education and training, Identity
Space, Place, Identity, Mobilities, Minoritiy Politics, History of Geographic Thought

Promotors: Ilse Derluyn
Researchers: Ilhan Kaya
Faculties: Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Period: 2021 – 2022
Themes: Discrimination, racism and prejudice, Global migration and mobility, Identity, Participation, integration and transnational relations
UN-MENAMAIS: towards a better understanding of the mechanisms, nature, magnitude and impact of sexual violence in Belgium

Promotors: Ines Keygnaert, Tom Vanderbeken
Researchers: Lotte De Schrijver
Department: ICRH
Themes: Health, health care and psychosocial well-being, Human smuggling, human trafficking and exploitation
PRO-M: Promoting Early Multilingualism in Childhood and Childcare

Promotors: Wendelien Vantieghem, Piet Van Avermaet
Researchers: Victoria Van Oss
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2018 – 2022
Themes: Children, youth and families, Discrimination, racism and prejudice, Education and training, Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality
The relationship between (perceived) racism and ethnic discrimination, opposing school cultures and educational and well-being outcomes for ethnic minority students and native Belgian students

Promotors: Peter Stevens, Mieke Van Houtte
Researchers: Roselien Vervaet
Department: Department of Sociology
Faculties: Faculty of Political and Social Sciences
Themes: Discrimination, racism and prejudice, Education and training
Uncertainty in the context of conflict, displacement and encampment

Promotors: Wouter Vanderplasschen, Ilse Derluyn, Sofie Vindevogel
Researchers: Julie Schiltz
Themes: Health, health care and psychosocial well-being, Refugee camps and asylum centres
The precarious citizenship of refugees: an empirical study on how refugees become political

Promotors: Lesley Hustinx
Researchers: Rachel Waerniers
Themes: Children, youth and families
Ethnic minority higher education in China

Promotors: Peter Stevens, Jeroen Huisman
Researchers: Liu xiaoling
Themes: Education and training
Mapping the Invisible City. Spatial Manifestations of sub-Saharan African Diaspora in the mid-size city in Europe (the case of Belgium).

Promotors: Johan Lagae, Karel Arnaut, Stijn Oosterlynck
Researchers: Luce Beeckmans
Themes: Housing, home-making and urban mobilities
The role of social work in supporting ger residents in the development of aspirations to belong to the Mongolian society

Promotors: Griet Roets, Ine Lietaert
Researchers: Terbish Bayartsetseg
Themes: Civil society, social work and solidarity
African Migration Pressures: Root Causes and Cooperative Policy Responses

Promotors: Ilse Ruyssen
Researchers: Sara Salomone
Themes: Global migration and mobility
Victimisation in a context of migration and human smuggling

Promotors: Tom Vander Beken, Ilse Derluyn
Researchers: Gwen Herkes
Themes: Human smuggling, human trafficking and exploitation
Evaluation of the multilingual website fedasilinfo.be and strengthening digital competences of applicants for Internationa Protection

Promotors: July De Wilde, Katrijn Maryns, Ellen Van Praet
Researchers: Simon Hendrickx, Sari Goukens
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2021 – 2022
Themes: Communication, media and discourse
Human mobility in the face of major environmental problems

Promotors: Ilse Ruyssen
Researchers: Els Bekaert
Themes: Global migration and mobility
Cosmopolitan citizenship under construction. A structural-cultural approach to the implementation process of human rights of Roma and Gypsy travellers.

Promotors: Lesley Hustinx
Researchers: Chloë Delcour
Themes: Migration law, migrants rights and legal Identity
Refugee for sale? A multi-methodological research project on international refugee organizations’ public communication strategies towards the Syrian and Central African displacement crises (2011-2018)

Promotors: Stijn Joye
Researchers: David Ongenaert
Faculties: Faculty of Political and Social Sciences
Period: 2017 – 2022
Themes: Communication, media and discourse, Identity
Immigrant’s integration in several EU and non-EU countries: a time-use approach

Promotors: Glenn Rayp
Researchers: Rezart Hoxhaj
Faculties: Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Period: 2021 – 2023
Themes: Global migration and mobility
Language and legal counselling: A linguistic ethnography of multilingual support in the legal assistance to asylum seekers in Belgium

Promotors: Katrijn Maryns
Researchers: Marie Jacobs
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2018 – 2022
Themes: Migration law, migrants rights and legal Identity
ACCESS – Equitable substance use treatment for Migrants and ethnic minorities: a policy analysis

Promotors: Tom Decorte, Wouter Vanderplasschen, Torsten Kolind
Researchers: Charlotte De Kock
Themes: Crime and criminalization, Health, health care and psychosocial well-being
The impact of terrorism on migration intentions and patterns

Promotors: Ilse Ruyssen
Researchers: Killian Foubert
Themes: Global migration and mobility
Legal and administrative assistance to asylum-seekers in Belgium

Promotors: Ellen Desmet, Katrijn Maryns
Researchers: Marjan Claes
Period: 2017 – 2017
Themes: Migration law, migrants rights and legal Identity
MATREMI – Mapping and enhancing substance use treatment for migrants & ethnic minorities

Promotors: Tom Decorte, Wouter Vanderplasschen, Torsten Kolind
Researchers: Charlotte De Kock, Carla Marscia
Themes: Crime and criminalization, Health, health care and psychosocial well-being
Equity and vulnerable populuations in primary health care

Promotors: Sara Willems, Ignaas Devisch
Researchers: Lise Hanssens
Themes: Health, health care and psychosocial well-being
Assimilation processes of migrants in an inter- and multigenerational perspective

Promotors: Ilse Derluyn, Lieve Bradt
Researchers: Floor Verhaeghe
Period: 2012 – 2018
Themes: Children, youth and families, Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality
Study on registration and residence formalities for EU workers in Belgium

Promotors: Ellen Desmet
Researchers: Roos-Marie van den Bogaard
Faculties: Faculty of Law
Period: 2018 – 2021
Themes: Migration law, migrants rights and legal Identity
EdisTools: Developing training tools for explaining and reducing ethnic discrimination in the fields of education, health care, housing and labour

Promotors: Peter Stevens, Stijn Baert, Eva Derous, Wendelien Vantieghem, Sara Willems, Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe
Researchers: Fanny D'hondt, Stijn Schelfhout, Abel Ghekiere, Marloes Hagenaars, Louis Lippens, Robin Vandecasteele
Faculties: Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Period: 2019 – 2023
Themes: Discrimination, racism and prejudice
Community expectations and support structures: An exploration of return experiences of Cameroonian returnees.

Promotors: Ilse Derluyn, Ine Lietaert
Researchers: Presca Esseh Wanki Kang
Themes: Borders, migration governance and people on the move
Humanitarianism under protest. The politics of grassroots solidarity with illegalized migrants.

Promotors: Robin Vandevoordt
Researchers: Robin Vandevoordt
Faculties: Faculty of Political and Social Sciences
Period: 2019 – 2022
Themes: Borders, migration governance and people on the move, Civil society, social work and solidarity
PROTECT the Right to International Protection. A Pendulum between Globalization and Nativization?

Promotors: Frank Caestecker
Researchers: Eva Ecker
Faculties: Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Period: 2020 – 2023
Themes: Borders, migration governance and people on the move, Global migration and mobility, Histories of migration and migration policy, Migration law, migrants rights and legal Identity
Return and Reintegration of Ethiopian Forced Returnees from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in North Wollo, Ethiopia: Process, Challenges and Impacts

Promotors: Ilse Derluyn, Lietaert Ine
Researchers: Tizazu Ashenafi Tirfie
Themes: Borders, migration governance and people on the move
Return, Responsibility and Reintegration in Central Africa: A multi-disciplinary exploration into endemic violence and social repair

Promotors: Koen Vlassenroot
Researchers: Koen Vlassenroot
Themes: Borders, migration governance and people on the move
Safe with the neighbours? Legal and actual protection of forced migrants in the Global South: perspectives on and from Morocco.

Promotors: Ellen Desmet
Researchers: Ruben Wissing
Faculties: Faculty of Law and Criminology
Period: 2018 – 2022
Themes: Borders, migration governance and people on the move, Discrimination, racism and prejudice, Global migration and mobility, Migration law, migrants rights and legal Identity
The migration-development nexus in EU foreign policy

Promotors: Christof Roos
Researchers: Jan Orbie
Faculties: Faculty of Political and Social Sciences
Period: 2018 – 2023
Themes: Borders, migration governance and people on the move
Translating the return migration regime in Europe and The Gambia

Promotors: Ine Lietaert, Joris Schapendonk
Researchers: Rossella Marino
Faculties: Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Period: 2019 – 2023
Themes: Borders, migration governance and people on the move
‘We feel at home, but we do not feel welcome’: Integration processes in a multi- and intergenerational perspective

Promotors: Ilse Derluyn, Lieve Bradt
Researchers: Floor Verhaeghe
Faculties: Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Period: 2012 – 2019
Themes: Children, youth and families, Discrimination, racism and prejudice, Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality, Participation, integration and transnational relations