Projects
Cooperating in the shadow of the law: judicialization and the expansion of WTO reach. University of Antwerp
Reclaiming the future? A critical analysis of innovative forms of shelter and support for illegalized migrants. Ghent University
Migrants without legal residence status often find themselves in situation with little prospect to structural inclusion. They have limited access to work, education and health care, and they risk being arrested and deported. Many nonetheless have resided for a long time in Belgium, where they have built up their lives and contributed to the informal economy. Social workers often cannot do much more than provide ad hoc support, without ...
Ghent Centre for Global Studies Ghent University
The Ghent Centre for Global Studies is a research platform that unites 11 research groups from 5 faculties around the critical study of globalization, with special attention to the interaction of global and local processes. With its interdisciplinary research (on inter alia urbanization, rural transformations, economic governance and migration) and education, the Centre wishes to contribute to the societal debate on, and evidence-based ...
Towards a comprehensive database to explain the administrative development of the European Union. University of Antwerp
Multigenerational housing. Phenomenological, comparative and architectural study of a new housing concept for Flanders Hasselt University
Policy Research Centre Sustainable Materials Management (SuMMa): The global and European context of the transition towards sustainable materials management. KU Leuven
Technical support of the Agency's Internal Administration to coordinate one Flemish regulations of the various laws and decrees on elections to municipal councils, social services councils, district councils and county councils Ghent University
The assignment aims to make a mother decree in which the different rules that apply are bundled at the local and provincial verkiezeingen. This can be done either in a joint decree, with specifications for each election, either in a decree for the local elections and one decree for provincial elections. In this way creates clarity for both the local and provincial governments and the Flemish government.
Language and legal counselling: A linguistic ethnography of multilingual support in the legal assistance to asylum seekers in Belgium Ghent University
This project proposes a linguistic-Âethnographic study of multilingual practices in legal advice consultations with asylum seekers in Belgium. It investigates how the multilingual resources and strategies used by lawyers and their minority language clients are valued, managed and legitimized in these consultations, thereby aiming to develop more nuanced understandings of language support needs in migration-Ârelated service encounters.
EU Promotion of Democratic Governance via Functional Cooperation: The Case of Twinning in Ukraine Ghent University
The present PhD project focuses on EU functional cooperation with Ukraine by using sociological institutionalism and path-dependency theories. In particular, it develops an analytical focus on the concept of democratic governance and adjusts its conceptual boundaries by investigating the case of Twinning in Ukraine. Drawing on the EU acquis, other official documents, and a series of interviews and surveys with key Twinning stakeholders from ...