Projects
Just Passing Through? Transit Migration in the Low Countries, 1780 -1870 Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Labour markets and rural development: Perspectives on gender, migration and decent work KU Leuven
In recent decades, the rural labour markets of low and middle-income countries have changed tremendously. Off-farm employment forms a significant and growing share of household income portfolios, with employment in the agri-food sector playing a central role. In this thesis I aim to investigate the contribution of agri-food systems employment to rural development. More specifically, I unravel the links between agri-food systems employment and ...
A Theopolitical Ethics of Space. A Meta-Ethical Exploration of Social-Structural Sin with Antonio Negri in Labor Migration Context KU Leuven
This interdisciplinary research formulates a theopolitical ethics of space as a method to go beyond the inadequacies of the Cartesian subject-object divide that has been hounding the contemporary human sciences. This issue is manifested 1) in migration studies through the United Nationsās rigid classification of āvoluntaryā migration and āforcedā migration, 2) in sociopolitical philosophy through the āagencyā and āstructureā debate between ...
The influence of European Student Mobility on European Identity and subsequent migration behaviour. University of Antwerp
MigFoRest - assisted Migration to increase Forest Resilience (EVINBO) Research Institute for Nature and Forest
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Reframing migration and refugees KU Leuven
The attitude towards migration and refugees is believed to be negative in Europe. For example the majority of Europeans state that immigration numbers should be restricted (Esipova, Ray, Pugliese & Tsabutashvili, 2015). According to the Eurobarometer, 42% of the Belgians perceive immigration as the main challenge for the European Union (Eurobarometer, 2018). Additionally, it has also been shown that, on many places in Europe, polarisation ...