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Researcher

Mieke Schrooten

  • Research Expertise  (University of Antwerp):Mieke Schrooten is Assistant Professor affiliated with the Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change (CRESC) and the Master of Social Work. In her research and teaching, she focuses mainly on issues of (trans)migration and mobility, transnational social work and informal social work practices. She is the PI of the research projects ‘Urban social work with transmigrants’ (2013-2015), ‘Border-crossing social work’ (2017-2019), ‘Urban diversities: challenges for social work’ (2019-2022), ‘Hidden homelessness in the Brussels Capital Region’ (2019-2023), ‘Social work practices in religiously inspired initiatives in Brussels’ (2021-2024) and ‘Begging in the Brussels-Capital Region’ (2022-2025). She co-supervises the research projects ‘SOLIGION: Co-creating complementary forms of social support across faith-based organisations and secular welfare state institutions’ (2020-2024) and ‘ATLAS: Scenarios to rewrite precarious citizenship in Brussels through opening up access to housing and social infrastructure’ (2023-2026). She is the chair of COST Action Transnational Family Dynamics in Europe (2022-2026).
  • Keywords  (University of Antwerp):INFORMAL SOCIAL WORK PRACTICES, TRANSNATIONAL SOCIAL WORK, ANTHROPOLOGY, TRANSMIGRATION, Political and social sciences
  • Disciplines  (Odisee vzw):Ethnicity and migration studies
  • Disciplines  (University of Antwerp):Anthropology, Social change, Social work, Citizenship, immigration and political inequality
  • Research techniques  (University of Antwerp):Qualitative research methods: ethnography, in-depth-interviews, focus groups, participatory action research
  • Users of research expertise  (University of Antwerp):Social professionals, policy makers, students, researchers