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Educational trajectories of disadvantaged youth: towards an impact model for interventions that empower disadvantaged youngsters in the process of study choice

Promotors: Wendelien Vantieghem
Researchers: Sofie Beunen
Faculties: Faculteit Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2025-2030
Themes: Children, youth and families, Civil society, social work and solidarity, Discrimination, racism and prejudice, Education and training
Accent bias in hiring in Flanders

Promotors: Sarah Van Hoof, Chloé Lybaert, Sofie Decock
Researchers: Alieke Broidioi
Department: Department of Translation Interpreting and Communication
Faculties: Faculty Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2025-2029
Themes: Discrimination, racism and prejudice, Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality
A broaching approach to improve psychotherapy for minoritised clients

Promotors: Alain Van Hiel
Researchers: Hilde Depauw
Faculties: Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Period: 2025 – 2028
Themes: Health, health care and psychosocial well-being
Towards more linguistic justice: Accent bias against Dutch-speaking teachers and students in Flemish higher education

Promotors: Chloé Lybaert, Sarah Van Hoof
Researchers: Mira Wyns
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2024 – 2028
Themes: Children, youth and families, Discrimination, racism and prejudice, Education and training, Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality
Language Tests for Migration and Integration: A Comparative Analysis of Evidential and Consequential Validity

Promotors: Bart Deygers, Benjamin Kremmel
Researchers: Laura Schildt
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2025-2029
Themes: Global migration and mobility, Histories of migration and migration policy, Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality
Citizenship and the past: historical culture in Flemish and Dutch Social Orientation courses for newcomers.

Promotors: Berber Bevernage
Researchers: Anthe Baele
Faculties: Faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegeerte
Period: 2023-2027
Themes: Education and training, Histories of migration and migration policy, Identity, Participation, integration and transnational relations
Back to School: Education and Wellbeing of Newcomer Students in Denmark and England

Promotors: Ilse Derluyn
Faculties: Faculteit Psychologie en Pedagogische Wetenschappen
Period: 2022 – 2027
Themes: Children, youth and families, Education and training, Health, health care and psychosocial well-being
Children’s rights and child-friendly justice in the appellate asylum procedure at the Council for Alien Law Litigation: an ethnographic and cocreative study

Promotors: Ellen Desmet
Researchers: Sara Lembrechts
Faculties: Faculty of Law and Criminology
Period: 2020 – 2025
Themes: Children, youth and families, Migration law, migrants rights and legal Identity
From Survival to Recognition: Challenging Myths on Sexual & Gender-Based Violence in Asylum Procedures

Promotors: Ellen Desmet, Ines Keygnaert
Researchers: Lore Roels
Faculties: Faculty of Law and Criminology
Period: 2021-2025
Themes: Borders, migration governance and people on the move, Discrimination, racism and prejudice, Health, health care and psychosocial well-being, Migration law, migrants rights and legal Identity
UNPACK: Unpacking the asylum procedure in its intersecting linguistic, sociocultural, psychological and legal dimensions

Promotors: Ellen Desmet, Ilse Derluyn, Katrijn Maryns, Karel Arnaut
Department: Faculty of Law and Criminology, Faculty of Psychology and Pedagogical Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2026 – 20230
Themes: Borders, migration governance and people on the move, Health, health care and psychosocial well-being, Migration law, migrants rights and legal Identity, Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality
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
Interdialectal accommodation in Arabic: a linguistic ethnography of public service interpreting in Brussels.

Promotors: Katrijn Maryns ; Jürgen Jaspers
Researchers: Juliette Michaud
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2025 – 2029
Themes: Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality
Navigating the gendered geopolitics of the EU’s Temporary Protection: the complex return trajectories of Ukrainian women between Belgium and Ukraine

Promotors: Ine Lietaert, Robin Vandevoordt
Researchers: Hannah Grondelaers
Faculties: Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Period: 2024 – 2028
Themes: Borders, migration governance and people on the move, Participation, integration and transnational relations
Role models in education: A social network perspective on teachers’ professional learning

Promotors: Ruben Vanderlinde, Noel Clycq
Researchers: Brent Theys
Faculties: Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Period: 2024 – 2028
Themes: Education and training
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
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
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
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
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
Diversity in education

Promotors: Reinhilde Pulinx, Piet Van Avermaet
Researchers: Wendelien Vantieghem, Iris Roose
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2015 – 2016
Themes: Children, youth and families, Discrimination, racism and prejudice, Education and training, Identity
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
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
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
The effectiveness of L2 instruction for low-literate, low-educated adult learners

Promotors: Bart Deygers
Researchers: Marieke Vanbuel
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2021 – 2024
Themes: Education and training
Developing an EU web-portal for video-remote public service interpreting for third-country nationals (EU-WEBPSI)

Promotors: Katrijn Maryns, July De Wilde
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2022 – 2025
Themes: Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality
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
Navigating exile – mobilisation of the Hongkongers in Europe amid transnational repression

Promotors: Christopher Parker
Researchers: Wai Chu Starry Chung
Faculties: Faculty of Political and Social Sciences
Period: 2024 – 2028
Themes: Global migration and mobility, Participation, integration and transnational relations
Dynamic language assessment in multilingual children

Promotors: Evelien D'haeseleer, Kristiane Van Lierde, Ellen Simon
Researchers: Julie Daelman
Faculties: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Period: 2017 – 2024
Themes: Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality
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
The climate change-migration-health(care) nexus

Promotors: Ilse Ruyssen, Charlotte Scheerens, Ine Lietaert, Ilse Derluyn, Glenn Rayp, Sorana Toma
Researchers: Ilse Ruyssen, Charlotte Scheerens, Els Bekaert, Alix Debray, Ine Lietaert
Faculties: Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Period: 2020 – 2025
Themes: Global migration and mobility
Interpreter-mediated psychotherapy. Interaction and perception, process and outcome

Promotors: July De Wilde, Claudio Scarvaglieri
Researchers: Peter Muntigl
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2023 – 2025
Themes: Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality
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
Disparities in use of preventive health services across migrant backgrounds in Belgium

Promotors: Sorana Toma, Sara Willems, Katrien Vanthomme
Researchers: Sarah Derveeuw
Faculties: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Period: 2022 – 2026
Themes: Health, health care and psychosocial well-being
Language assistance in criminal proceedings in Belgium

Promotors: Sarah Van Hoof, Katrijn Maryns
Researchers: Sara Delva
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2021 – 2026
Themes: Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality
Reimagining higher education: a decolonial journey at the University of Ghent

Promotors: Elisabeth De Schauwer
Researchers: Yasmine Kaied
Faculties: Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Period: 2022 – 2028
Themes: Discrimination, racism and prejudice, Education and training
‘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
Speech (resonance and articulation) in children in resource poor countries/speech language therapy in resource poor countries/multilingualisme in specific populations in Belgium

Promotors: Kristiane Van Lierde, Evelien d'Haeseleer
Researchers: Julie Daelman, Cassandra Alighieri, Kim Bettens, Jolien Verbeke
Faculties: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Period: 2020 – 2025
Themes: Health, health care and psychosocial well-being
Learning Dutch in Flanders. The acquisition of sociolinguistic variation with adult L2 learners

Promotors: Chloé Lybaert, Anne-Sophie Ghyselen
Researchers: Pauline Verhelst
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2023 – 2027
Themes: Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality
Sexual orientation and gender identity in the Belgian asylum procedure

Promotors: Ellen Desmet, Marlies Casier
Researchers: Liselot Casteleyn
Faculties: Faculty of Law and Criminology
Period: 2020 – 2024
Themes: Discrimination, racism and prejudice, Identity, Migration law, migrants rights and legal Identity
Violence and the impact on well-being, health and identity in male migrants in transit zones in Belgium and France, on their way to the United Kingdom

Promotors: Ines Keygnaert, Ilse Derluyn, Massil Benbouriche, Caroline Desombre
Researchers: Leni Linthout
Faculties: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Period: 2021 – 2025
Themes: Health, health care and psychosocial well-being, Human smuggling, human trafficking and exploitation, Identity, Refugee camps and asylum centres
MaTIAS – Machine Translation to Inform Asylum Seekers

Promotors: July De Wilde, Katrijn Maryns, Lieve Macken, Arda Tezcan
Researchers: Ella van Hest, Michaël Lumingu
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2023 – 2025
Themes: Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality, Refugee camps and asylum centres
The labour market disadvantages of citizens with a migration background: from measuring to explaining and remedying

Promotors: Stijn Baert, Louis Lippens
Researchers: Louise Devos
Faculties: Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Period: 2023 – 2027
Themes: Discrimination, racism and prejudice
Hair, identity, beauty, and the self in Muslim contexts: emotional landscapes and changing femininities

Promotors: Lisa Franke
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2024 – 2028
Themes: Identity
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
The Myth of the non-Western Ethnic other’: An exploration of structural and cultural racism within mental health care

Promotors: Stijn Vanheule
Researchers: Lotte Morel
Faculties: Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Period: 2023 – 2027
Themes: Discrimination, racism and prejudice, Health, health care and psychosocial well-being
Family reunification of Turkish migrants in Belgium and the Netherlands: a comparative study of legal consciousness in light of evolving policies

Promotors: Ellen Desmet
Researchers: Ayse Güdük
Faculties: Faculty of Law and Criminology
Period: 2018 – 2023
Themes: Migration law, migrants rights and legal Identity
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
Determining the impact of feedback types on uptake and oral gains in low-educated adult L2 learners

Promotors: Bart Deygers, Marieke Vanbuel
Researchers: Emma Maes
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2024 – 2028
Themes: Education and training
Lawyering between counselling and adjudication: a sociolinguistic ethnography of the legal assistance to asylum seekers in Belgium

Promotors: Katrijn Maryns
Researchers: Marie Jacobs
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2022 – 2025
Themes: Migration law, migrants rights and legal Identity
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
High-stakes language tests, migration policy and ethical codes

Promotors: Bart Deygers
Researchers: Laura Schildt
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2021 – 2025
Themes: Education and training, Participation, integration and transnational relations
Refugees in identity crisis. Interactions between migration law and private international law

Promotors: Jinske Verhellen
Researchers: Geertrui Daem
Faculties: Faculty of Law and Criminology
Period: 2021 – 2025
Themes: 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
Newly arrived migrants in secondary schools. Charting linguistic expectations and didactic practices, exploring new possibilities

Promotors: Bart Deygers, Ellen Simon
Researchers: Shauny Seynhaeve
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2020 – 2024
Themes: Education and training
A functional-contextual appraisal of professional interpreting: entextualisation in multi-phased institutional procedures

Promotors: Mieke Vandenbroucke, Bart Defrancq
Researchers: Sari Goukens
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2023 – 2026
Themes: Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality, Participation, integration and transnational relations
Considering ethnicity in forensic mental health care: Experiences of service users from migrant- and ethnic minority groups and their care takers

Promotors: Freya Vander Laenen, Stijn Vandevelde
Researchers: Marjolein De Pau
Faculties: Faculty of Law and Criminology
Period: 2021 – 2025
Themes: Crime and criminalization, Discrimination, racism and prejudice, Health, health care and psychosocial well-being
Policing and mobility of Russian migrants in Belgian cities, 1880-1914

Promotors: Christophe Verbruggen, Margo De Koster
Researchers: Maïté Van Vyve
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2018 – 2025
Themes: Borders, migration governance and people on the move, Crime and criminalization, Migration law, migrants rights and legal Identity
Hub Developing in Diversity

Promotors: Wendelien Vantieghem, Piet Van Avermaet
Researchers: Iris Vandevelde, Sofie Beunen, Eva Dierickx
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2019 – 2035
Themes: Children, youth and families, Discrimination, racism and prejudice, Housing, home-making and urban mobilities, Identity
Challenging queer migration narratives. A case study of sexual orienation and gender identity (SOGI) rights in the Belgian asylum procedure.

Promotors: Ellen Desmet, Marlies Casier
Researchers: Liselot Casteleyn
Themes: Discrimination, racism and prejudice
Reclaiming the future? Critical perspectives on social work and policies on undocumented migrants

Promotors: Robin Vandevoordt, Ine Lietaert, Ellen Desmet
Researchers: Soline Ballet
Faculties: Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Faculty of Law and Criminology
Period: 2021 – 2025
Themes: Borders, migration governance and people on the move, Civil society, social work and solidarity, Housing, home-making and urban mobilities, Migration law, migrants rights and legal Identity
Language and guardianship: A sociolinguistic ethnography of the multilingual resources and strategies used in the guidance trajectory of unaccompanied refugee minors

Promotors: Katrijn Maryns, Ilse Derluyn, Floor Verhaeghe
Researchers: Lotte Remue
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2022 – 2026
Themes: Children, youth and families, Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality
Culturally sensitive mental healthcare: cultural conversations in psychotherapy with ethnic minority clients

Promotors: Alain Van Hiel, Bart Van de Putte, Piet Bracke
Researchers: Hilde Depauw
Faculties: Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences
Period: 2020 – 2025
Themes: Discrimination, racism and prejudice, Health, health care and psychosocial well-being
Resisting Departheid in Eastern EUrope: grasssroots engagement withillegalised migrants in Lithuania

Promotors: Robin Vandevoordt, Lesley Hustinx
Researchers: Julija Kekstaite
Faculties: Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences
Period: 2021 – 2025
Themes: Borders, migration governance and people on the move
Language, care and protection: A sociolinguistic ethnography of the multilingual needs and challenges in the care trajectory of unaccompanied minors

Promotors: Katrijn Maryns
Researchers: Lotte Remue
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2022 – 2026
Themes: Children, youth and families
FedDiverse – Ethnic diversity in federal public services in Belgium

Promotors: Eva Derous, Donatienne Desmette, Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe
Researchers: Eva Derous, Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe, Donatienne Desmette, Aylin Kocack, Bert Leysen
Faculties: Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Period: 2023 – 2024
Themes: Discrimination, racism and prejudice, Work
The denizen rebel. Pathways of hidden homelessness in the shadow of the welfare state.

Promotors: Griet Roets, Koen Hermans
Researchers: Sophie Samyn
Faculties: Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Period: 2020 – 2024
Themes: Borders, migration governance and people on the move
STAMINA: mental health stigma among Flemish adolescents with and without migration background and the role of the school context

Promotors: Piet Bracke, Fanny D'hondt, Melissa Ceuterick
Researchers: Lies Saelens
Faculties: Faculty of Political and Social Sciences
Period: 2022 – 2026
Themes: Children, youth and families, Discrimination, racism and prejudice, Education and training, Health, health care and psychosocial well-being
Development Implications of Involuntary Immobility: When Origin Countries Restrict Emigration

Promotors: Ilse Ruyssen
Researchers: Flor Vandevelde
Faculties: Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
Period: 2024 – 2028
Themes: Borders, migration governance and people on the move, Global migration and mobility
The impact of flight experiences on the psychological wellbeing of unaccompanied refugee minors – CHILDMOVE

Promotors: Ilse Derluyn
Researchers: Malte Behrendt, Ine Lietaert, Marina Rota, Océane Uzureau, Sarah Adeyinka
Faculties: Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Period: 2017 – 2022
Themes: Borders, migration governance and people on the move, Health, health care and psychosocial well-being
Bloody diversity. The transformative capacity of blood donation among ethnic minorities in redefining citizenship and solidarity in ethnically diverse societies

Promotors: Lesley Hustinx, Pierre Monforte
Researchers: Toyah Van der Poten
Faculties: Faculty of Political and Social Sciences
Period: 2022 – 2026
Themes: Civil society, social work and solidarity, Discrimination, racism and prejudice, Health, health care and psychosocial well-being, Identity
Families on the Move. A follow-along ethnography of families’ trajectories in the asylum regime in Belgium

Promotors: Karel Arnaut, Ilse Derluyn
Researchers: Elsemieke van Osch
Faculties: Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Period: 2019 – 2024
Themes: Borders, migration governance and people on the move, Children, youth and families, Participation, integration and transnational relations, Refugee camps and asylum centres
Access to education, employment and housing for beneficiaries of temporary protection and international protection in Belgium: an analysis from a non-discrimination perspective

Promotors: Ellen Desmet, Robin Vandevoordt, Milena Belloni
Researchers: Roos-Marie van den Bogaard
Faculties: Faculty of Law and Criminology
Period: 2021 – 2025
Themes: Children, youth and families, Discrimination, racism and prejudice, Migration law, migrants rights and legal Identity, Participation, integration and transnational relations
Interrogating Islamic roads to conviviality

Promotors: Chia Longman
Researchers: An Van Raemdonck
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2022 – 2025
Themes: Civil society, social work and solidarity, Discrimination, racism and prejudice, Identity
Gender-(in)sensitivity in credibility assessments of applications based on sexual or gender-based violence in the European asylum procedure

Promotors: Ellen Desmet, Ines Keygnaert
Researchers: Lore Roels
Faculties: Faculty of Law and Criminology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Period: 2021 – 2025
Themes: Borders, migration governance and people on the move, Discrimination, racism and prejudice, Health, health care and psychosocial well-being, Migration law, migrants rights and legal Identity
Classroom Justice in ethnic diverse classrooms: The perspective of ethnic cultural minorities across generations

Promotors: Bart Van de Putte, Alain Van Hiel
Researchers: Fien Geenen
Faculties: Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Period: 2020 – 2024
Themes: Children, youth and families, Discrimination, racism and prejudice, Education and training
Facework and multimodality. A comparative study of on-site interpreting and video-remote interpreting.

Promotors: July De Wilde, Jelena Vranjes
Researchers: Dries Cavents
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2021 – 2025
Themes: Communication, media and discourse
Lost in transit? Deconstructing the il/legalization of migrants dwelling in European ‘transit zones’

Promotors: Robin Vandevoordt, Ellen Desmet
Researchers: Maud Martens
Faculties: Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Faculty of Law and Criminology
Period: 2022 – 2026
Themes: Borders, migration governance and people on the move, Civil society, social work and solidarity, Migration law, migrants rights and legal Identity
CUREDI

Promotors: Jinske Verhellen
Researchers: Jinske Verhellen
Faculties: Faculty of Law and Criminology
Period: 2018 – 2024
Themes: Children, youth and families
Interpreter-mediated interviews: police and municipal contexts

Promotors: Bart Defrancq, Antoinette Verhage, Mieke Vandenbroucke
Researchers: Sofie Verliefde, Helena Snoeck
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2018 – 2026
Themes: Communication, media and discourse
MOBILISE: Determinants of ‘Mobilisation’ at Home & Abroad: Analysing the Micro-Foundations of Out-Migration & Mass Protest

Promotors: Toma Sorana, Onuch Olga, Sasse Gwendolyn
Researchers: Toma Sorana
Themes: Borders, migration governance and people on the move, Histories of migration and migration policy
Diversity and Inclusion in Higher Education

Promotors: Wendelien Vantieghem
Researchers: Jente De Coninck
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2022 – 2026
Themes: Children, youth and families, Discrimination, racism and prejudice, Education and training, Identity
A psychoanalytical reading of religious radicalization in the context of Islam

Promotors: Reitkse Meganck
Researchers: Amar El-Omari
Faculties: Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Period: 2021 – 2027
Themes: Crime and criminalization, Health, health care and psychosocial well-being
On the (not so) persuasive potential of metaphorical language in news media communication. Framing the Latin-American migration debate through metaphor

Promotors: Renata Enghels, Geert Jacobs
Researchers: Laurence De Backer
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy
Period: 2021 – 2025
Themes: Borders, migration governance and people on the move, Communication, media and discourse
Does school social capital protect against loneliness in newly arrived minors? A mixed-method study in Flemish secondary schools providing reception programmes

Promotors: Benedicte Deforche, Piet Bracke
Researchers: Sarah Devos, Katrijn Delaruelle
Faculties: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences
Period: 2021 – 2025
Themes: Children, youth and families, Education and training, Health, health care and psychosocial well-being, Participation, integration and transnational relations
Considering ethnicity in forensic mental health care: experiences of migrant and ethnic minority service users and their service providers

Promotors: Freya Vander Laenen, Stijn Van de Velde
Researchers: Marjolein De Pau
Themes: Crime and criminalization, Discrimination, racism and prejudice, Health, health care and psychosocial well-being
Performing kinship with illegalised migrants. Comparing hospitality practices in Brussels and Rome

Promotors: Robin Vandevoordt, Lesley Hustinx
Researchers: Julija Kekstaite
Faculties: Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences
Period: 2021 – 2025
Themes: Borders, migration governance and people on the move, Civil society, social work and solidarity, Discrimination, racism and prejudice
FAMIMOVE – FAMIlies on the MOVE: The coordination between international family law and migration law

Promotors: Jinske Verhellen
Researchers: Leontine Bruijnen
Faculties: Faculty of Law and Criminology
Period: 2023 – 2024
Themes: Children, youth and families, Migration law, migrants rights and legal Identity
Advocacy for Migrants in European Transit Zones. Analysing Innovative Strategies for Political Change

Promotors: Robin Vandevoordt, Ellen Desmet
Researchers: Marlies Casier, Robin Vandevoordt
Faculties: Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Faculty of Law and Criminology
Period: 2023 – 2026
Themes: Borders, migration governance and people on the move, Civil society, social work and solidarity, Migration law, migrants rights and legal Identity
Belonging in Translation: The Audiovisual Transfer of Latinidad

Promotors: Alexandra Sanchez, July De Wilde
Researchers: Elisa Robbe
Faculties: Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences
Period: 2023 – 2027
Themes: Borders, migration governance and people on the move, Communication, media and discourse, Identity, Multilingualism, translation, interpreting and linguistic inequality
Brokering human rights evidence: the case of pushbacks from European borders

Promotors: Jill Alpes
Researchers: Jll Alpes
Faculties: Faculty of Law and Criminology
Period: 2021 – 2024
Themes: Borders, migration governance and people on the move, Civil society, social work and solidarity, Human smuggling, human trafficking and exploitation, Migration law, migrants rights and legal Identity