Newsletter: Keep up with BIRMM
Have you seen our October Newsletter in your mailbox? No?
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Call for Abstracts: scope, forms and impact of black mobilizations in Europe
Call for Abstracts: scope, forms and impact of black mobilizations in Europe Black Lives Matter in Europe – Mapping and Understanding We invite scholars working on the scope, forms and impact of black mobilizations in Europe to submit an abs...
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Public Ph.D defense of Laura Westerveen
BIRMM member Laura Westerveen will publicly defend her Ph.D thesis on how European countries respond to persisting inequalities faced by ethno-racial minorities. The defense will take place on Friday, 9 October 2020 at 10h00 in an online format.
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Belgium raises barriers to Roma inclusion
- NEW REPORT! FRA's Roma and Travellers Survey - BIRMM researcher Dr. Serena D'Agostino outlined the Belgian legislation and policies on Roma and Travellers, as part of the FRA's Roma and Travellers Survey.
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Open vacancy: Post-Doctoral Research Position @ EDGE
Postdoctoral researchers (2 years) for EDGE project EDGE is a strategic research programme at VUB. It explores the contemporary challenges to democratic governance in Europe through three main research streams.
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Context Matters! watch the full symposium online
More than 200 people attended the symposium 'Context matters! How to Change the Context of Discrimination and Racism?' on September 8.
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Afroeuropeans Conference 2021: call for panels
The 8th Biennial Afroeuropeans Network Conference “Intersectional Challenges in Afroeuropean Communities” will take place from 7 – 10 July 2021 in Brussels. The call for panels , requesting proposals for panels addressing a topic related to one of the 11 conference streams, is open.
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NEW REPORT! BIRMM researchers highlight impact of Covid-19 measures on migrants, refugees and ethnic minorities
VUB researchers member of the BIRMM network assessed the fundamental rights implications of the COVID-19 measures taken by the Belgian government for the European Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA). The VUB Fundamental Rights Centre is the national contractor for the FRA.
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Symposium: Context matters! How to Change the Context of Discrimination and Racism? --- CALL for ABSTRACTS! Deadline: 15 May ---
On 8 September BIRMM and Interface Demography organize a full-day Symposium on the contextual dynamics of discrimination and racism at VUB. Racism and discrimination are major problems in our society.
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First BIRMM Research Day
VUB Migration & Diversity Researchers Unite to Cooperate More! On Friday 26 April 2019, the Brussels Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Migration and Minorities (BIRMM) organized its first full research day! Around 30 VUB researchers from many different...
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Queer Migrations with Wim Peumans - 1 April 2019, 6pm-8pm
A lecture and panel discussion on Queer Migrations The lecture is given by dr.
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BIRMM formally opened!
On 19 October 2018, the IES Migration, Diversity and Justice cluster organised the kick-off and internal networking meeting of the new VUB’s Brussels Interdisciplinary Research centre on Migration and Minorities (BIRMM), with more than 30 participants. Besides the net...
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