Projects
SRP (Groeiers): Gendering ethnicity & ethnicizing gender in politics & policy Vrije Universiteit Brussel
On the same campus? Acculturation, discrimination and intergroup relations between Turkish and Belgian descent university students KU Leuven
Much research has been devoted to investigating the acculturation processes of the children of immigrants in Western Europe. One particular focus has been on the acculturation of children of Turkish immigrants, with a significant degree of scholarly attention paid to debates on integration and education. The present dissertation offers a contribution to this scholarly debate by analysing the acculturation experiences and perspectives of both ...
Dual radicalization? The impact of resentment, misunderstandings and liberal values on radical belief systems among majority and minority group members KU Leuven
TRajectories of Acculturation and Contact in Ethnically diverse Social networks KU Leuven
Across Europe even high-achieving children of immigrants are at risk of underperforming and disengaging from school, with long-lasting consequences for their future life chances in today’s knowledge economy (OECD, 2012). Ethnic inequalities are not fully explained by individual abilities or family resources on the side of minority students (Heath & Brinbaum, 2014); and cross-national comparison suggests the key role of different ...
Unpacking the Black Box of Emotional Acculturation. KU Leuven
A Cultural Psychological Approach to Acculturation. KU Leuven
In the current research program, I further develop and empirically test a cultural psychological approach to acculturation that centers on the notion of ‘cultural fit’ – i.e., the extent to which an individual’s pattern of psychological functioning is similar to the typical pattern of others in the socio-cultural context. I start from the cultural psychological insights that people are encouraged and rewarded to fit their socio-cultural ...
A Cultural Psychological Approach to Acculturation: Developing tools to capture psychological acculturation and exploring the micro-processes that account for cultural fit in intercultural interactions. KU Leuven
Sabbatical Peter Vermeersch: Minority activism in Perilous Times: The Politics of Being Russian, Belarusian, and Ukrainian in Poland KU Leuven
This sabbatical period is intended to enable the development of a new research project that aims to examine how relationships between minorities and majorities change in the context of a changing international context. In particular, this project aims to study the complex political and social positions of the Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian minority communities in Poland since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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