Exiled and separated search menu search content A multi-sited ethnography of separated refugee families The context of the research Family migration has been the dominant legal mode of entry in most Europe countries in the last four decades (OECD, 2017). While European states have increasingly limit…

Milena Belloni TT. asst. research professor Research Milena Belloni Research team Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change Expertise I am a sociologist of migration with a particular expertise in ethnography, refugee studies and the Horn of Africa. I am currently working on a project a…

Exiled and separated search menu search content Exiled and separated Investigating the challenges of refugee families separated by borders Most European states allow refugees to access a facilitated procedure to reunify with their family members. Many studies, however, highlight how issues of timing…

Sarah Anschütz postdoc researcher FWO About Sarah Anschütz Sarah Anschütz Contact Stadscampus Show email address Sint-Jacobstraat 2 2000 Antwerpen, BEL Sarah is an anthropologist of migration and mobility. She is a FWO postdoctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp and Assistant Professor a…

Eva Theunissen academic interim staff postdoc Publications Eva Theunissen Queering the view : a multi-sited study on bodies, digital/visual technologies and ethnographic invisibilities Source Antwerpen, University of Antwerp, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Communication Studies, 2023,286 …

Great Lakes of Africa Centre search menu search content 29 November 2022 from 12:30 until 14:00 (CET) Crossing borders, connecting families: return decision-making in South Sudanese transnational family networks Sarah Vancluysen In this seminar, Sarah Vancluysen presented her initial thoughts and pl…

Félicien De Heusch Research Félicien De Heusch Research team Survivors' pensions protecting transnational families in Senegal (PENSIONPROTECT). 01/10/2025 - 31/08/2030 Abstract After decades of labor migration and the consolidation of the transnational welfare state, several EU countries have buil…

Sarah Anschütz postdoc researcher FWO Research Sarah Anschütz Research team Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change Of smartphones and the 'homeland': How digital technologies contribute to migrant-background youth's novel transnational engagements between Germany and Ghana. 01/10/2…

Roos Derrix predoc researcher FWO Research Roos Derrix Research team Development processes, actors and policies The multi-levelled politics of national refugee policies: A case study of Uganda. 01/11/2022 - 31/10/2026 Abstract Refugee policies in the Global South have increasingly become the focus o…

Giovanni Penna predoc researcher FWO Research Giovanni Penna Research team Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change The visa process outsourcing industry: the case of Afghan refugee families seeking reunification in Belgium 01/11/2024 - 31/10/2026 Abstract The outsourcing of visa proce…

Urban Studies Institute search menu search content Walkshop 4. Infrastructural Explorations: Embodied encounters with urban infrastructure W100 | FRIDAY 16 JULY, 14:00-15:30 CEST Laura Henneke - Goldsmiths, University of London Louise Rondel - Goldsmiths, University of London This interactive and pa…

Roschanack Shaery-Yazdi associate professor My website Roschanack Shaery-Yazdi I am an Associate Professor of the Modern Islamic World in the history department at the University of Antwerp. In 1998, I received my MA in Cultural Anthropology and Education from the University of Heidelberg and comple…

Elisabetta Costa associate research professor Research Elisabetta Costa Research team Visual and Digital Cultures Research Center (ViDi) Remote Work and Social Change: An Anthropological Approach (ReWorkChange). 01/05/2025 - 30/04/2030 Abstract Remote work has become normalised as an important aspec…

Gert Verschraegen professor Research Gert Verschraegen Research team Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change Expertise Research and policy advice on science-society interactions. Research and policy advice on cultural change and cultural diversity Theory of society The visa process ou…

Migloba search menu search content Team Coordinator: Milena Belloni Core team: Sarah Adeyinka Amalia Innocenti Sarah Anschütz Irene Landini Imane Bendra Lena Richter Anke De Malsche Giovanni Penna Roos Derrix Ella Van Landeghem Meet the team: spotlight on Giovanni Penna Research centres: GaP - Gram…

Tom De Herdt full professor Research Tom De Herdt Research team Development processes, actors and policies Expertise Provide policy supporting advice or expertise on economic or political issues in the Great Lakes Region of Central Africa. Social Protection, Inequality & Inclusive Growth. 01/05/2023…

Kristof Titeca professor Research Kristof Titeca Research team Development processes, actors and policies Expertise I work on governance and conflict in Central and Eastern Africa, in particular around the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. Within this context, I look at: - Political dynamics …

Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change search menu search content Projects Ongoing projects Survivors' pensions protecting transnational families in Senegal (PENSIONPROTECT). 01/10/2025 - 31/08/2030 Abstract After decades of labor migration and the consolidation of the transnational …

Institute of Development Policy search menu search content Projects Ongoing projects Award of the Research Board 2025 - Award Deleeck: Social Sciences and Humanities. 01/12/2025 - 31/12/2026 Abstract Award of the Research Board 2025 - Award Deleeck: Social Sciences and Humanities. This project inves…

Urban Studies Institute search menu search content Paper Sessions Preliminary Programme Overview Parallel Paper Sessions (pdf - 1618kb) 1. (Dis)Cohesion as sense of urbanity (Dis)cohesion as sense of urbanity PS001 | THURSDAY 15 JULY, 14:00-15:30 CEST Peter Dirksmeier – Leibniz Universität Hannov…