Communication
Criminology
History
Law
Philosophy
Political Science
Psychology and Educational Sciences
Sociology
Urban Studies
COMMUNICATION |
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| Name | Contact Details | Research Centre | Research Interests |
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Media and migration, audience research, ethnic and political conflict, and the Middle East, particularly Turkey. |
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CRIMINOLOGY |
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| Name | Contact Details | Research Centre | Research Interests |
| Dr. An Nuytiens (PhD Res.) | An.Nuytiens@vub.be | Voicing Youth at Social Risk (VOIC)/Crime & Society research group (CRIS) | Life stories and criminal careers of female prisoners, delinquent pathways of girls in the juvenile justice system, fendered pathways to crime and prison, motherhood in prison and Romani girls in the youth/criminal justice system. |
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An-Sofie Vanhouche (PhD Res.) |
Food in prisons. |
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Juvenile criminology and justice. |
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| BCUS/Crime & Society research group (CRIS) |
Security, prevention, repression, police, cities. |
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Inès Saudelli (PhD Res.) |
Stop & Search practives by Belgian local police forces. |
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| Jasmien Bougrine (Phd Res.) | Jasmien.Bougrine@vub.be | Voicing Youth at Social Risk (VOIC)/Crime & Society research group (CRIS) | Social media, youth belonging and identity formation, urban youth, voicing and empowering socially excluded groups, self-narratives and diversity. |
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Youth crime policy. |
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Kristel Beyens (PhD Res.) |
Penal decsision making. Prisons. |
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Lana De Pelecijn (PhD Res.) |
Lana.De.Pelecijn@vub.ac.be |
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Lars Breuls (PhD Res.) |
Detention and forced return of migrants. |
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| Prof. Lucas Melgaço | lucas.melgaco@vub.ac.be | BCUS/Crime & Society research group (CRIS) | Surveillance, public order, public spaces, urban conflicts, public demonstrations, epistemology of geography, and relations between the information and communication technologies, space and and security. |
| Prof. Margo de Koster | margo.de.koster@vub.ac.be | BCUS/Crime & Society research group (CRIS) | Security, prevention and policing; youth criminology, historical-criminological approaches to juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice, girls and women in criminal justice, urban policing, youth and transgressions in urban public space. |
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Marijke Caroline Van Buggenhout (PhD Res.) |
Marijke.Van.Buggenhout@vub.ac.be |
Voicing Youth at Social Risk (VOIC)/BCUS/Crime & Society research group (CRIS) |
Youth criminology, migration and asylum, decision making processes, child citizenship, empirical children's rights and voicing socially excluded groups. |
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Mattias De Backer (PhD Res.) |
Urban youth and conflict in public space; an ethnography of hanging around. |
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| Prof. Sofie De Bus | Sofie.De.Bus@vub.be | Voicing Youth at Social Risk (VOIC)/Crime & Society research group (CRIS) | Youth criminology and law, gender, intersectionality and social vulnerability in the youth court, practices of judicial actors, voicing vulnerable minors. |
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Police stop & search practices in multi-cultural cities, impact of the counter-terrorism policy on policing activities. |
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HISTORY |
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| Name | Contact Details | Research Centre | Research Interests |
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Migration regulation in 18th and 19th century. |
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Ayfer Erkul (PhD Res.) |
Faculty of Arts and Philosophy |
Migration regulation in 18th and 19th century. |
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Marjolein Schepers (PhD Res.) |
Historical Research into Urban Transformation (HOST) |
Migration history. |
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LAW |
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| Name | Contact Details | Research Centre | Research Interests |
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Amy Weatherburn (PhD Res.) |
The effectiveness of the implementation of the European legal anti-trafficking framework and the handling of labour exploitation in law. | ||
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Kristof Gombeer (PhD Res.) |
International migration and refugee law; international and European human rights law; law of the sea; jurisdiction; search and rescue; migrant smuggling; trafficking in persons. | ||
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Prof. Paul De Hert (Director) |
Fundamental rights; ethnic statistics, minority rights, borders and privacy |
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Sergi Vazquez Maymir (PhD Res.) |
Comprise mutual legal assistance, extra-territorial jurisdiction |
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Sibel Top (PhD Res.) |
Asylum law in the EU, mutual trust andmutual recognition principles. | ||
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Human rights, migration, Congo | ||
PHILOSOPHY |
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| Name | Contact Details | Research Centre | Research Interests |
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Normative issues related to gender and the multicultural society, humanism, secularism, and diversity |
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Dirk Lafaut (PhD Res.) |
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Normative frameworks regarding health care for undocumented migrants. | |
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Honor-related violence; migration; gender-based violence; transmigration transnationalism; assistance; gender |
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Susan Diereckx (PhD Res.) |
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Harmful cultural practices, sexual practices, diversity, migration, medical anthropology and West Africa | |
POLITICAL SCIENCE |
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| Name | Contact Details | Research Centre | Research Interests |
| Diversity; Gender; Comp. EU Public Policy & Organisation; Civil Society; Transnational Mobilisation; Equality. | |||
| European Criminal Law; International Criminal Law; Int./European Human Rights Law; Extradition Law. | |||
| Comparative Migration Policy; Political Processes; Social Movements; Social Integration and Ethnic Relations. | |||
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Chloé Janssen (PhD Res.) |
Political representation of Ethnic Minorities. | ||
| EU Migration and Asylum Policies; EU Freedom of Movement; Border and Mobility Policies (EU and OECD). | |||
| Research on Brussels, Diversity in education | |||
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Elham Mansoury Babhoutak (PhD Res.) |
Elly.Mansoury@vub.ac.be | ||
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Political representation / Politieke verte-genwoordiging (ethnic minorities, Islam) |
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EU Justice and Home Affairs (internal and external dimension); Dynamics of EU Decision-making; Fundamental Rights and Rule of Law Promotion; EU-Western Balkans Relations. |
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Gabriel Zajur (PhD Res.) |
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Diversity in education | |
| Sociology of Education and Youth; Diversity and Discrimination; Intersectionality. | |||
| International Migration, Sociology of Migration, European Border Management,Border Studies, Governance and Governmentality, Postcolonial Theories. | |||
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Hanna Schneider (PhD Res.) |
EU Asylum Policies; Refugee Resettlement; Civil Society; Migration Governance. | ||
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Irene Wieczorek (Assoc. Res) |
Int./European Criminal Law; European Comparative Criminal/Constitutional Law & Procedure; EU Market Law. | ||
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Immigration & integration policies (Multi-level Governance); immigrant integration sociology; Diversity & Multi-culturalism. |
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| Gender and Islam (Fatima Mernissi Chairholder), conversion to Islam | |||
| Societal Security and Constructivism; Hybrid Threats Analysis; EU Counter-Radicalization Policy. | |||
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Josefine Landberg (PhD Res.) |
Etnicity and gender in radical right wingdiscourses. | ||
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Political representation of groups (women, ethnic minorities, class, age groups, LGBT), equality policies and state feminism |
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Laura Westerveen (PhD Res.) |
Immigrant Integration & Anti-discrimination Policy; Diversity & Multiculturalism;Race Politics; Frame Analysis. | ||
| External Dimension EU Migration andAsylum Policy; Borders and Securitisation; Migration Governance in West Africa; Autonomy of Migration. | |||
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Louise Knops (PhD Res.) |
Louise.Knops@vub.ac.be louise.knops@vub.be | ||
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Malasree Neepa Acharya (PhD Res.) |
High Skilled Return Migration; SouthAsia; Cosmopolitanism; Global South; Entrepreneurship; Diaspora. | ||
| International Criminal & Humanitarian Law; Int./European Human Rights &Migration Law. | |||
| International Criminal Law; Transnational Advocacy Networks. | |||
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Identity; Nationalism; Racism; Roma Rights; Immigrant Integration; Ethnicity. |
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Philipp Stutz (PhD Res.) |
EU Migration Cooperation; Externalisation; Immigration to the EU; National Discourses on Migration. | ||
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Sara Silvestre (PhD Res.) |
EU Asylum Policy; Council of the EU; Negotiation Behaviour & Strategies; Europeanisation. | ||
| Europeanization; Intersectionality; Migration & Minorities; Roma Rights; RomaWomen Activism; Social Movements. | |||
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Sibel Top (PhD Res.) |
EU Justice and Home Affairs; EU Asylum Policies; Migration; Extradition law;Fundamental Rights. |
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| POLI | Ethnicity, gender and intersectionality; Comparative politics; Political parties and elections | ||
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Xiu Ling Ye (PhD Res.) |
Immigration to the EU; Immigrant Integration & Migration Governance. | ||
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Yijia Huang (PhD Res.) |
Identity; Immigrant Integration; Migration & Minorities; Diversity & Multiculturalism; EU Justice and Home Affairs. | ||
PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES |
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| Name | Contact Details | Research Centre | Research Interests |
| Tina Honghui Pan (PhD Res.) | pan.honghui@vub.be | Belgian Ageing Studies | Ageing and media usage, social participation, active and healthy ageing in the context of migration and long-term care. |
SOCIOLOGY |
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| Name | Contact Details | Research Centre | Research Interests |
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Religiosity, prejudices, perceived discrimination, educational inequalities. |
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Dounia Bourabain (PhD Res.) |
(everyday) discrimination. |
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Religiosity (identification, practices,orientations, ...), social pressure for religious conformity, sexual prejudice, gender, discrimination. |
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| Ethnic inequalities in health an mortality. | |||
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Social theory, social inequality, sociology of time, leisure politics and methodology. |
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School careers and transition from school to work for ethnic minorities. |
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Katrien Vanthomme (Senior Res.) |
Migrant health and mortality; socioeconomic inequalities. |
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Laora Mastari (PhD Res.) |
Perceived discrimination |
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Laura Emery (PhD Res.) |
Integration and education of young immigrants. |
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Lena Imeraj (PhD Res.) |
Urban geographies, spatial segregation, integration, residential mobility, migrants. |
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Lisa Van Landschoot (PhD Res.) |
Fertility of descendants of migrants: the role of the partner. |
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Demography & Population studies. Socio-economic differentials in mortality & health Population databanks & registers, Population surveys & census. |
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Discrimination, residential segregation, socio-economic integration, post-colonialism, migration history. |
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| Safaa Charafi (PhD Res.) | safaa.charafi@vub.be | ID | Intersectionality, urban planning, everyday racism, gender mainstreaming. |
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Prof. Solveig Argeseanu (Visiting) |
Migration, integration and chronic disease; health of refugees during resettlement. | ||
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Sorana Toma (Voluntary Flw.) |
Drivers of international migration, migrant networks, socio-economic integration, residential segregation, migration policies, second generation, ethno-racial inequalities, highly skilled migration. | ||
| Soumia El Majdoub (PhD Res.) | Soumia.el.majdoub@vub.be | ID | Migration policy, population growth, Malthusian thinking, discourse analysis, cities and newcomers. |
| Ethnic inequalities in health and mortality, residential segregation and internalmigration, Africa-China migration. | |||
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Wanda Van Hemelrijck (PhD Res.) |
Migrant health & mortality; Health careand illness experiences among migrants. |
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URBAN STUDIES |
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Politics of urban development and the analysis of urban development strategies and their effects. |
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Infrastructures of migration and arrival; transnational geographies of care and responsibility; urban ethnography and innovative forms of participatory research in superdiverse situations (digital media, music, design). |
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Chiara Basile (Visiting PhD Res.) |
Settlement strategies of newcomers in arrival contexts. | ||
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Prof. Eric Corijn (Emeritus) |
Brussels, Diversity and segregation. |
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Urban diversity, identity and citizenship in cities. |
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Hala El Moussawi (PhD Res.) |
Infrastructures of arrival; settlement of refugees. |
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Geographies of encounter and solidarity. |
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| Dr. Parastou Saberi |
Racialisation, urban uneven development, urban policy, NGOs and community-based initiatives. Urban politics and hard-Right populism. Urban security and militarisation. Immigration, nationalism, politics ofdifference and citizenship. Colonial and neo-colonial urbanism. |
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René Kreichauf (PhD Res.) |
Urban transformation trends, social inequality, urban minorities and migration. |
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