Projects
Talking solidarity: how do citizens of different welfare states frame solidarity in their interactions? University of Antwerp
FAMILY SOLIDARITY 2.0: towards renewed solidarity in diverse families KU Leuven
What we mean by “family” has undergone radical changes in the past decades. We can observe an increasing plurality of constellations of living together (partnerships) and raising children (parenthood) that makes it difficult to define what actually makes a family “a family”. The many possible combinations of partnership and parenthood in our pluralistic society require that we conceptualize family as a more fluid concept that goes beyond the ...
FAMILY SOLIDARITY 2.0: towards a renewed solidarity in various family constellations KU Leuven
The concept of 'family' has changed radically in recent decades. There is an increasing number of constellations of coexistence (partnerships) and child rearing (parenthood), which makes it difficult to determine what makes a family a 'family'. The many possible combinations of partnership and parenthood in our multiform society demand us to consider the family as a fluid concept that goes beyond the narrow legal and biological concepts and ...
FAMILY SOLIDARITY 2.0: towards renewed solidarity in diverse families Ghent University
FAMILY SOLIDARITY 2.0: towards renewed solidarity in diverse families. University of Antwerp
The Legal Value of the Principle of Solidarity in EU Asylum and Migration. University of Antwerp
The locality of transnational solidarity within the European Union (LOTSEU) Ghent University
This research project investigates local support for European Union (EU) wide solidarity policies among the citizenry. It combines earlier approaches taken in the field of European solidarity research with those of cleavage theory and political geography to shed light over the impact of small-scale contextual factors on public preferences towards an EU-wide social layer. To pursue this scientific endeavor I will, firstly, exploit a natural ...
Sabbatical Maarten Loopmans: solidarity, diversity and change KU Leuven
Diversity and social integration have been among the major issues of state governance in Europe since the early 19th century and have been intensely studied. Over the last decades, these subjects are resurging as policy concerns. Liberal democracies in Europe have been shaken to their core by a series of geopolitical, ecological and economic events in the wider region, including a global financial-economic crisis, a so-called ‘migration ...
Esilience and SOlidarity in intercultural encounters between displaced migrants and host society members: An ego-centered NETwork approach KU Leuven
This proposal develops and tests a comprehensive conceptual framework that examines social network configurations facilitating adjustment of displaced migrants to receiving societies.