What happens to families when they migrate, or some members cross borders and others stay behind?
Looking for answers to this question, MIGLOBA team members from the Departments of Sociology and Linguistics travelled to France to join researchers from the Institut Convergences Migrations (ICM) for an insightful two-day research exchange.
The event — funded by the FWO-Tournesol exchange project titled Investigating separated families: towards a transnational analysis of policies, bureaucracy and everyday life — included a public conference at Campus Condorcet in Aubervilliers on the topic Formation, trans-formation, dé-formations des familles en migrations. The speakers presented their research on how migration processes shape and transform family structures, gender norms and practices of caregiving. The following day, Professor Camille Schmoll (EHESS, ICM) led a guided tour of the Musée nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration in Paris. Later, the FWO-Tournesol team participated in a workshop on the methodology and ethics of researching transnational families.
For early-career researchers, the event was a brilliant opportunity to learn from more senior scholars, exchange ideas on innovative research approaches and receive valuable feedback on their own projects.
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Snapshots from the event
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3 April 2025 - Panel 1: Divorcer pour migrer ou migrer pour divorcer ? Francesca di Donato (Migrinter, IC Migrations), Milena Belloni (MIGLOBA, University of Antwerp), Yahya Al-Abdullah (EHESS, INSEI, IC Migrations), Florence Lévy (Collège de France, IC Migrations), Thomas Pfirsch (Université Polytechnique Hauts de France, UPHF, LARSH, IC Migrations) -
3 April 2025 - Panel 2: Table ronde méthodologique Laura Odasso (CY Paris Université, EMA, IC Migrations), Mieke Vandenbroucke (University of Antwerp), Aline Desmas (Géographie-cités, EHESS, IC Migrations), Théoxane Camara (Gresco, Université de Poitiers, IC Migrations), Chiara Giordano (Ulb, GERME, Bruxelles, IC Migrations), Liyun Wan (Université de Strasbourg, IC Migrations) -
4 April 2025 - The PHC Tournesol exchange team at the Musée nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration in Paris -
4 April 2025 - Workshop on methodology and ethics of research on transnational families
