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Researcher
Robin Vandevoordt
- Keywords:asylum policy, History of Social Movements, Civil Society, international migration governance, Social Movements
- Disciplines:Social and cultural anthropology, Citizenship, Political and legal anthropology, Immigration, Social theory, Social movements and collective action, Race and ethnic relations
Affiliations
- Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy (Department)
Member
From1 Feb 2020 → Today - Department of Conflict and Development Studies (Department)
Member
From1 Oct 2019 → 30 Sep 2022
Projects
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- Advocacy for Migrants in European Transit Zones. Analysing Innovative Strategies for Political Change.From1 Jan 2023 → TodayFunding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
- Lost in transit? Deconstructing the il/legalization of migrants dwelling in ‘transit zones’ in the Brussels and the Calais regions.From1 Jan 2022 → TodayFunding: BOF - projects
- Performing kinship with illegalised migrants. Comparing hospitality practices in Brussels and RomeFrom1 Nov 2021 → TodayFunding: FWO fellowships
- Reclaiming the future? A critical analysis of innovative forms of shelter and support for illegalized migrants.From1 Sep 2021 → TodayFunding: BOF - projects
- "Migrant Squatting and 'City-zenship': Comparative Analysis of Municipal Migration Policies and Bottom-Up Processes of Integration in Paris and Rome"From1 Feb 2021 → TodayFunding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- REFUFAM: From policy caps to policy innovations. Strengthening the well-being and integration pathways of refugee familiesFrom15 Dec 2020 → TodayFunding: BRAIN-be(Belgian Research Action through Interdisciplinary Networks)
- Rebuilding home in different citizenship regimes. How Syrian refugees reconstruct their social lives, experience belonging and organise themselves in two European cities and their hinterlands.From1 Oct 2019 → 30 Sep 2022Funding: FWO junior postdoctoral fellowship
Publications
1 - 10 of 21
- Legitimising detention and deportation of illegalised migrant families : reconstructing public controversies in Belgium and the Netherlands(2023)
Authors: Nathan Wittock, Laura Cleton, Robin Vandevoordt, Gert Verschraegen
Pages: 1589 - 1609 - De ruimte van het middenveld om de mensenrechten van migranten te verdedigen(2022)
Authors: Ellen Desmet, Robin Vandevoordt
Pages: 16 - 21 - A more subversive humanitarianism? The political strategies of grassroots initiatives supporting illegalized migrants(2021)
Authors: Robin Vandevoordt, Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert, Elisa Pascucci
Pages: 99 - 113 - A more personal shelter : how citizens are hosting forced migrants in and around Brussels(2020)Series: Forced Migration
Authors: Robin Vandevoordt, Tom Scott-Smith, Mark Breeze
Pages: 149 - 162 - Demonstrating deservingness and dignity : symbolic boundary work among Syrian refugees(2019)
Authors: Robin Vandevoordt, Gert Verschraegen
- Subversive humanitarianism : rethinking refugee solidarity through grass-roots initiatives(2019)
Authors: Robin Vandevoordt
Pages: 245 - 265 - Subversive humanitarianism and its challenges : notes on the political ambiguities of civil refugee support(2019)
Authors: Robin Vandevoordt, Margit Feischmidt, Céline Cantat, Pries Ludger
Pages: 101 - 128 - The European refugee controversy : civil solidarity, cultural imaginaries and political change(2019)
Authors: Robin Vandevoordt, Gert Verschraegen
Pages: 48 - 52 - Judgement and ambivalence in migration work : on the (dis)appearance of dilemmas in assisting voluntary return(2018)
Authors: Robin Vandevoordt
Pages: 282 - 297 - The politics of food and hospitality : how Syrian refugees in Belgium create a home in hostile environments(2017)
Authors: Robin Vandevoordt
Pages: 605 - 621