Research Jan Vranken

Abstract

The overall objectives are to analyse and understand what future challenges different types of European cities will face and what approaches can be successful to tackle them. The overarching question is the role Cohesion Policy may and should play in this respect.

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Dierckx Danielle
• Co-promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change
• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Dierckx Danielle
• Co-promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change
• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

The central research question of this project goes as follows: How do the service networks of the local centres of the PCSW of Antwerp influence the way human services are provided. In this project we investigate the impact of the environment on the social worker's behaviour. The starting point of our project is that social workers have access to a certain amount of 'discretionary power'.

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Dierckx Danielle
• Co-promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change
• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

This project represents a formal research agreement between UA and on the other hand Welzijnszorg vzw. UA provides Welzijnszorg vzw research results mentioned in the title of the project under the conditions as stipulated in this contract.

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Dierckx Danielle
• Co-promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change
• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Dierckx Danielle
• Co-promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change
• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Commissioned by the Social Inclusion Service of the federal government, OASeS / University of Antwerp will produce a policy book on poverty and social exclusion, with particular interest for federal competences. Topics to be included are social security, social protection, justice, family policy, disabled policy, finances. Each of these issues will be linked to the European level.

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Dierckx Danielle
• Co-promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change
• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

This project makes an overview of all the administrative data the Public Centres on Social Welfare have to collect for to the regional and federal governments. The aim of the study is to detect the overlap in registration and data delivery. The research has to result in a lower administrative load for the PCSWs.

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Dierckx Danielle
• Co-promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City
• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change
• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Using land dynamics as its prism, this research project aims to understand 1) how opportunity structures - defined by norms, institutions, actors and implementation processes at the local, national and international level - interact with localized life-worlds and the agency of local actors; 2) how externally induced reforms may impact upon this interaction. Two case study countries will be considered: Rwanda and Burundi. The project adopts an actor-oriented perspective that aims to capture the complex interactions between human agency and the local institutional environment. It will use a combination of three disciplinary approaches: development anthropology, development economics, and law and development. The three components will be strongly linked and will fit into an overarching interdisciplinary methodology.

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Reyntjens Filip
• Co-promoter: Bastiaensen Johan
• Co-promoter: Vandenhole Wouter
• Co-promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

The aim of this study is to make an inventory of visiting material on poverty and social exclusion.

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change
• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City
• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

In this project, the Public Centres of Social Welfare in Belgium are examined in their services towards homelessness.

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Dierckx Danielle
• Co-promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City
• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

The study will focus on the trajectories of people who are activated by Belgian Public Centers of Public Welfare. Quantitative and qualitative research methods will be used. The analysis is based on the Datawarehouse Labour Market and Social Protection and original data collection.

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Dierckx Danielle
• Co-promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City
• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City
• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

The result we expect: -to increase knowledge about urban forms of increasing social exclusion and decreasing social cohesion in a context of retreating welfare states; -to uncover the more prominent roel of FBOs in combating poverty and exclusion in cities and in Europe; -to identify a European dimension of the position of FBOs in relation to povery and exclusion in cities, bearing in mind dynamic relations between national and local diversity and common European characteristics; and -to construct a common framework for the analysis and evaluation of the policy and governance implications of FBOs, aiming to augment their European characteristics.

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan
• Co-promoter: Dierckx Danielle

Research team(s)

• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City
• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

In this research project 50 social workers are interviewed about their experiences in helping poor migrant families. We analyse the needs of those professionals in their social work practices and we search for best practices of the interculturalisation in social work.

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change
• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City
• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

The aim of this study is to make an inventory of visiting material on poverty and social exclusion.

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City
• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City
• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Dierckx Danielle
• Co-promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City
• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change
• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City
• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City
• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Starting from a policy orientated view based on applied academic research, the Policy Research Centre on Regional Planning and Housing attempts to get a clear insight in the driving forces which determine the spatial structure in Flanders. The Policy research centre will look for transformations and developments in space and housing which take place in Flanders. Furthermore it will to investigate why and how these transformations take place. Within the Policy Research centre the work package 'transformations in space due to economy' is analyzing the current forms and changing characteristics of the use of economic space. Determining changes in the location choice of economic activities can lead to a shift in spatial patterns and requirements. In order to develop a sustainable spatial planning it is important to bear in mind the different trends in economic location and try to quantify them.

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Verhetsel Ann
• Co-promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Transport and Regional Economics

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

The aim of this study is to make an inventory of visiting material on poverty and social exclusion.

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change
• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change
• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan
• Co-principal investigator: Driesen Geert
• Fellow: Kesteloot Karen

Research team(s)

• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change
• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan
• Co-promoter: Van den Bosch Karel
• Fellow: Dewilde Caroline

Research team(s)

• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City
• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change
• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan
• Co-promoter: Vandebosch Heidi

Research team(s)

• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City
• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City
• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change
• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

This research will explore how the Belgian press represents 'poverty' and 'the poor'. Which differences and evolutions in the representation of poverty do we identify? Do the media ¿ implicitly or explicitly ¿ blame the poor themselves for their situation or do they blame society in general? A quantitative and qualitative content analysis will be applied on articles about poverty of four Dutch- and four French-language newspapers from 1985 till 2005.

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change
• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City
• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

The aim of this study is to make an inventory of visiting material on poverty and social exclusion.

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change
• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Based on the Panel Survey of Belgian Households and the Belgian Health Interview Survey 2001 we looked into the prevalence and etiology of depression from a multidimensional poverty perspective. We found that the link between depression and poverty depended on the form of the poverty experience. We also found that poverty is depressing when it is experienced as an acute life event, a chronic stressor, but also as a passed experience. Depression in itself increases the risk of becoming poor and blocks the exit out of poverty. In the link between poverty and depression, relative deprivation plays a major role.

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan
• Fellow: Levecque Katia

Research team(s)

• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change
• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change
• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change
• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change
• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan
• Co-promoter: Pauwels Luc

Research team(s)

• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City
• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

The aim of this study is to make an inventory of visiting material on poverty and social exclusion.

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City
• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change
• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change
• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

On the base of formal and informal policy documents and by interviews with keypersons, the Belgian anti-poverty policy of the latest thirty years will be reconstructed. We'll focus on the role of different actors (public, semi-public and private) in policymaking, especially on the participation of the target groups ('the poor'): Are they able to influence anti-poverty policy? Wich are the key-succesfactors? Is it necessary to develop new models of participation?

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan
• Fellow: Dierckx Danielle

Research team(s)

• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City
• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City
• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City
• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City
• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

In recent years, both in social science and social policy circles, a consensus has grown on the multi-dimensional nature of poverty. This multi-dimensionality has two faces. On the one hand, poverty can manifest itself on one or more life domains. On the other hand, panel data point at the dynamic nature of poverty: most people who are `poor' at one moment in time are poor only for a short period in their life. The first part of this research project aims to evaluate the possibility of constructing a multi-aspectual poverty-index for the EU-countries, using the European Community Household Panel. Unlike existing research, we will use simultaneous latent class analysis, a log linear technique which is excellently suited for the analysis of categorical data, of which most social indicators are an example.

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan
• Co-promoter: Dewilde Caroline

Research team(s)

• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change
• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

The aim of this study is to make an inventory of visiting material on poverty and social exclusion.

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change
• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

The project is a further elaboration and continuation of the project P105/P00527.

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change
• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan
• Fellow: De Keulenaer Femke

Research team(s)

• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change
• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Van Loon Francis
• Co-promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change
• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

The link between poverty and depression has been studied before, but almost exclusively from a static perspective on poverty: poverty as a long term or even permanent reality which is concentrated within the margin of society. This traditional poverty picture is now being challenged by research within a new, dynamic paradigm: poverty is found to be very dynamic, it manifests itself with very different frequency and duration and as a short term experience it reaches well into the middle class. Our main research question is whether this new poverty picture is also applicable to Belgium and what role depressive disorders play in these dynamic processes. After testing the social selection-thesis we ask the following questions:

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City
• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City
• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

On the base of formal and informal policy documents and by interviews with keypersons, the Belgian anti-poverty policy of the latest thirty years will be reconstructed. We'll focus on the role of different actors (public, semi-public and private) in policymaking, especially on the participation of the target groups ('the poor'): Are they able to influence anti-poverty policy? Wich are the key-succesfactors? Is it necessary to develop new models of participation?

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan
• Fellow: Dierckx Danielle

Research team(s)

• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change
• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change
• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

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• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

The main specific objective of the initiative is to provide scientific research input and support for the equal opportunities policy development and implementation of the Flemish government by developing multidisciplinary expertise and research potential in the area of equal opportunities policy in Flanders in a more integrated way. Another specific objective is to create a documentation and information centre and a contact point which serves a wide circle of direct and indirect beneficiaries in the field of equal opportunities policy.

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan
• Co-promoter: Breda Jef
• Co-promoter: Cantillon Bea
• Co-promoter: Cuypers Daniël
• Co-promoter: Tanghe Fernand

Research team(s)

• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City
• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan
• Fellow: De Keulenaer Femke

Research team(s)

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

Project type(s)

• Research Project

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Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

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• Research Project

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Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

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• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

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• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

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• Research Project

Abstract

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

In this research project we intend to discover the extent to which Islamism is a determining factor in the life of students of Moroccan and Turkish descent at Flemish universities and to what extend Islamism can be explained as a middleclass phenomenon that occurs in time of rapid social changes. We shall concretise the significance of this worldview by establishing how it is reflected in the social network both at a national and international level. We wil also focus our attention on four faith (and social) communities around the so-called fundamentalist mosques and evaluate how this is integrated in the social world. //..We shall pay special attention to differences between significance of Islam to boys and girls, and how this is determined by their country of origin. We shall set out to find answers to research questions by means of extensive field research based on the method of participant observation and network analysis. The field research will be underpinned with a theoretical, in-depth exploration of the issue at hand. To this, we shall make use of theories concerning Islam, social networks, ethnonationalism and migration.

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

Research team(s)

• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City
• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

This explorative international research envisages the development of a research network on the complex probleme of access and usage of electronic media in relation to ethnic and/or cultural minorities and nations. An inventory will be made of (non)existing resources, data and expertise and through workshops the first outlines of this topic will be shaped. All this will be used to write several project proposals for the 5th framework programme.

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan
• Co-promoter: Pauwels Luc

Research team(s)

Project type(s)

• Research Project

Abstract

Through literature review, field research and testcases with data from past research of OASeS, this project aims at developing the tools and instruments for a qualitative database for research on poverty and social exclusion. Together with the opportunities for future qualitative and quantitative research and practice based teaching, this project helps to establish a well organised framework for qualitative research in Flanders.

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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• Research Project

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Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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• Research Project

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Social economy initiatives have certain characteristics in common: an economic, a social, an esthetical and an institutional characteristic. 1) How are these characteristics implmented in the organisations 2) which problems occur with this implementation and how can they be solved and 3) which are the crucial succes factors and how are they promoted, are the central questions in this research. The research field is the Province of Antwerp.

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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• Research Project

Abstract

The aim of this study is to make an inventory of visiting material on poverty and social exclusion.

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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• Research Project

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Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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• Research Project

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The aim of this project is 1) to inventorize attempts to develop sets of non monetary indicators of forms of social exclusion and of policies to promote social inclusion at both the national and European level. 2) to prepare a descriptive model that integrates 'best practices' of these initiatives. 3) to present a structure to coordinate these efforts and to stimulate new ones. This will be done through the development of 1) a database of national and European sets of non-monetary indicators 2) proposals to increase comparability between these efforts 3) a network to promote non-monetary indicators, through a number of intensive meetings 4) the European dimension of these indicators,

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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• Research Project

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Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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• Research Project

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Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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• Research Project

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Improving the research on poverty at the Xavier Institute of Social Service (XISS) and other institutes in India on the basis of://..- deepening theoretical and empirical knowledge about poverty and povertyalleviation//..- developing new methods of data-analysis (exchanging insights from India and from the West).//..Specifically the project aims://..-developing a more thorough theroretical and empirical understanding of the effects of social capital on poverty, the state of development and poverty alleviation programmes,//..- strengthening of the research capacity in terms of human capital, methodology, data-processing and research equipment, and//..- developing a dynamic research network around XISS

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Embrechts Rob
• Co-promoter: Vranken Jan

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• Research Project

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Work-care projects are the most recent type of social employment in Flanders. Because of the very low treshold participants are very vulnerable. However, until now this type of social employment is not yet recognised by the government. To do so, it is necessary to make up a profile of the participants of the projects. This is the central question in this research.

Researcher(s)

• Promoter: Vranken Jan
• Co-promoter: Goossens Luc

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• Research Project

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Three problems will be adressed in this project. What are the effects of urban development programmes on social inclusion and urban sustainability? How did certain forms of urban governance shape these programmes, their definition, their implementation and their successes and failures? How has the presence of these programmes changed urban governance or even stimulated forms of urban governance (the feedback loop).//..To answer these problems, the project undertakes a multilevel research in 32 neighbourhoods in 9 countries. The effects of urban programmes on social inclusion in deprived urban areas, on sustainability in the selected cities and on urban governance are assessed through the analysis of a multilevel database and through cross-evaluation by the international project team. To perform that task, smaller teams of four experts are selected from the project members and they will perform their evaluation in cities in a 'foreign' country, assisted by the local partner.

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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The enlargement of the conceptual frame of poverty on the one hand, and a longitudinal and comparative design on the other hand, will lead to an innovative analysis of the European Community Household Panel.

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan
• Co-promoter: Dewilde Caroline

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• Centre for Research on Environmental and Social Change
• Centre on Inequality, Poverty, Social Exclusion and the City

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan
• Co-promoter: Timmerman Christiane

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Succeeding the completed research, this project is part of the action that takes place in the actionresearch on participation of low literate native adults in reading- and writingclasses of the Antwerp centre for basiceducation. It consists of the scientific support for and supervision of 4 actions that are executed in the centre: 1) the development of a regional netword of relavant actors and institutions for the centre; 2) the experimental development of renewed courses; 3/) the operationalisation of a new intake- and coachprocedure and 4) the development of ana integrated mediapolicy with specific intstruments. This evolves: the translation of researchfindings inot practical steppingstones for the actions, support of the staff that is involved in the execution of the actions through regularly held meetings, and the development and application of instruments to evaluate the outcome of the actions.

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan
• Co-promoter: Goossens Luc

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• Research Project

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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The purpose of this research project is the development and evaluation of a composed indicator. This indicator can be used to identify situations of social exclusion and poverty in a European comparative framework. Non monetary aspects of poverty will be taken into account and the indicator will be calcultated using existing data.

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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We examine the demographic profile of recently arrived Turks and provide socio-biographical information about Turks who followed or did not follow the welcome program of the Flemish community. We look to their expectations, socio-cultural and economic backgrounds, how an by who they were welcomed and their experiences and appreciation of the Flemish welcome program.

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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We examine the demographic profile of recently arrived Morrocans and provide socio-biographical information about Morrocans who followed or did not follow the welcome program of the Flemish community. We look to their expectations, socio-cultural and economic backgrounds, how an by who they were welcomed and their experiences and appreciation of the Flemish welcome program.

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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This resaerch aims at://..1. Factual information on the bargee community, the circus community and the fairground community in Flanders (total number, regional distribution, age structure,..)//..2. Qualitative information on the 'lifeworld' of these communities and the barriers they experience concerning their acces to general services and welfare assistance,//..3. Policy recommendations for an effective policy of emancipation for these target groups.

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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The aim of this project is to describe and to analyse attempts that are being made at the national level to collect and analyse data on social exclusion and poverty and to specify the factors that explain the introduction of such an initiative or its lack. What are the requirements for having a regular overview of the national situation regarding matters of poverty, social exclusion, and social inclusion?//..The result would be a model that could be used as a benchmark and a stimulans for the production of annual reports in member states. Therefor, it is necessary to organize a structure that enables the systematic and continuous collection of data on social exclusion and social inclusion. A second aim is to develop instruments to evaluate best pracices for effective policies to combat social exclusion and to promote social inclusion. A third aim is to create a network of multiple partners, as a way to handle the growing complexity of the problem and its rapid changes.

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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From its experience of years with social assistance and service in the detention house of Antwerp, Justitieel Welzijnswerk Antwerpen (JWA) perceives that foreigners are only reached in a limited way. On the one hand, few foreigners are involved in socio-cultural work in prison. On the other hand, few demands for assistance from this group find their way to JWA. Above, JWA can hardly solve in an adequate manner the few problems raised within this group. This statement asks for more systematic research, for which JWA has neither time nor personnel available. Via goal-directed research JWA wants to come to a grounded anaylis of the situation. Based on this, they want to formulate propositions for an adequate offer of social assistance and services to foreigners in the detention house of Antwerp.

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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• Research Project

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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The main issue of theis research concerns the effects of social networks on the process of production and reproduction of poverty. This process is characterised by a mutual relationship between the network and poverty. Attention is paid to both sides of the interaction. Methodological, this research is a combination of network analysis and qualitative analysis.

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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• Research Project

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To get more insight in the empirical established relation between attitudes towards Islam and health among Turkish and Moroccan migrant women, we will investigate the diversity in the experience of Islam among these women and we will check the way it is interpreted in the interaction and communication with their environment. Our attention will be especially directed towards these patterns as they are related to health care and the experience of health. These patterns of interaction and communication are the visible expression of the underlying social networks. The size and nature of these networks influence the integration of Turkish and Moroccan women in society. In the first, quantitative phase we will investigate the socio-biographical profile on the basis of a questionnaire, the ideological and religious worldview and the relevant characteristics of the social networks of these women. In the second, qualitative phase we use in-depth interviews to get more detailed information on the religious attitudes and social networks of these women. This study allows us to get a better insight in the socio-cultural and structural factors that can give an explanation for the relation established between religious attitudes and health. The mapping of the social networks of 'secular' and 'Islamic' oriented women will help to concretise an opaque concept as integration.

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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The purpose of this study is the development of an ideal evaluation-model for policies with respect to the promotion of social inclusion. In order to achieve this, we will base ourselves on methodological literature concerning evaluation research on the one hand, and on examples of 'the best' evaluation studies whithin Europe on the other hand. The analysis will be performed on three levels; the European, the national and the regional.

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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The aim of this project is to colect the existing material on poverty and social exclusion, to systematize this material and to analyze it from a theortical framework that is presented at the beginning of the yearbook. For each yearbook external experts are invited to highlight important developments. An extensive statistical and biographical annex is included.

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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• Research Project

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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• Research Project

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Tis paper is a contribution to the ' Second Report on Vocational Training Research in Europe'. It will try to put into a theoretical perspective problems concerning social exclusion and more in particular exclusion from the labour market and from training for target groups to enhance their labour market reïntegration.

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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• Research Project

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The project focuses on the development of a research framework. This framework must enable the European Foundation to set up an European research project to evaluate co-ordination initiatives concerning activation policies.

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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The aim of this project is twofold. On the one hand, a psychiatric and socio-economic profile of a group of chronic psychiatric patients is sketched. On the other hand, an evaluation of a series of projects for the rehabilitation of these group of patients is made.

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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The project evaluates 11work-care projects in Antwerp. Special attention is given to quality of life of the participants. The evaluation is based on in-depth interviews with the participants.

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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The central goal for this research was to present a state of affairs regarding social economy in the province of Antwerp. Therefore an operational definition of social economy had to be found. On the basis of that definitition a list of social-economy-enterprises could be developed.

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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With this research we want to get insight in the social networks of Moroccan and Turkish women of the second generation in relation with Western society and with their own community. We select women who aremore 'secular oriented' or who are more 'Istamist oriented' and who live in neighbourhoods with a high or a low concentration of Moslims. Working with informants from the Moroccan and Turkish community the researchers establish contacts with women who are relevant for this study. During an in-depth interview we gather information concerning their socio-economic status and their social networks. These descriptions show the link between the ideological worldview and the social localisation on the one hand and the social participation of the respondnets on the other hand. The total amount of in-depth interviws depends on 'theoretical saturation' (Glazer, B. and Strauss, A. , 1967, The Discovery of Grounded Theory; Chicago: Aldline).

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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• Research Project

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With this action research we are focussing on the profile of autochton adult functional illitrates as a target group of Basic Education. We aim at revealing those parcial target groups which are not or insfufficient reached, which factors play a part in this and how the recruitment and the educational guidance can be adjusted to this knowledge.

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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• Research Project

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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• Research Project

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Developping a theortical framework on social activation, as a contribution for a book on this topic.

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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• Research Project

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The influence of recent social-economic research on law and jurisprudence. Receptionof growing concern for the poor in law through legal definitions and open legal concepts.

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• Promoter: Cuypers Daniël
• Co-promoter: Cantillon Bea
• Co-promoter: Tanghe Fernand
• Co-promoter: Velaers Jan
• Co-promoter: Vranken Jan

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• Research Project

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With this research we want to get more insight in the perinatal health among Moroccan migrants in Flanders. Using a case-control study design we look for the determinants of bad perinatal health. Data will be collected using a questionnaire which will be administered orally at the home. A model of intervention will be established to improve communication within the perinatal health care.

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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The proposed research project will concern migrations between statistical areas or neighbourhoods. In a second part, we will focus on the immigration an emigration in Antwerp. The main obejctive of the research is to identify who is leaving the city, to describe their demographic and socio-economic characteristics and to find out the reasons for leaving. The outcome of the study will contribute to a better understanding of the destryction of social texture of our cities.

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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• Research Project

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The overall aim of this project is to deepen our understanding, provide evidence, and assess the extent to which and how 'institutionally supported cultures' can bridge the gap between 'marginalisation cultures' (i.c. excluded from the labour market on the basis of their low skills and qualifications) and the 'mainstream cultures' (included in labour market) by means of innovative training arrangements aimed at endowing people with both skills and dispositions and attitudes that will eventually allow them to enter the labour market. Cross national study (Belgium, France, Spain and Great-Britain).

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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• Research Project

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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The purpose of this stud is to provide answers to the following questions: How are the personal networks of these groups of young adults composed? Which factors influence this composition? How can social policy effect thiese networdks.

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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• Research Project

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The overall aim of this project is to deepen our understanding, provide evidence, and assess the extend to which and how'institutionally supported cultures' can bridge the gap between 'marginalisation cultures' (i.c. excluded from the labour market on the basis of their low skills and qualifications) and the 'mainstream-cultures' (included in labour market) by means of innovative training arrangements aimed and endowing people with both the skills and dispositions and attitudes that will eventually allow them to enter the labour market. Cross national study (Belgium, France, Spain and Great Brittain)

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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• Research Project

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The assignment consists in preparing a regional outlook on the M.V.P.A. (Society for the Renewal and Promotion of Antwerp), in accordance with, among other things, the 'guidelines for formulating a regional view'.

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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• Research Project

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This project includes an analysis of local poverty policy in 5 metropolitan areas and the publication of a look on 'the state of affairs' on poverty and the law on the OCMWs (1976). Moreover, te research unit collaborated in on preparing a colloquium on the occasion of 20 years of OCMWs.

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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• Research Project

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The purpose is to evaluate the measures taken on the Dutch-language side within the framework of the Priority Programme for Greater Social Solidarity (Law of 12 January 1993), under the auspices of the King Boudewijn Foundation.

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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• Research Project

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The aim of this project is to colect the existing material on poverty and social exclusion, to systematize this material and to analyze it from a theortical framework that is presented at the beginning of the yearbook. For each yearbook external experts are invited to highlight important developments. An extensive statistical and biographical annex is included.

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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• Research Project

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The aim of this project is to identify, analyse and open up the federal, socio-economic databases which contain data relevant to a better understanding of poverty and the process of social exclusion in Belgium. An additional objective is, among other things, the operationalization of the notions of poverty and social exclusion for a number of social fields, such as the labour market, social services etc.//..In particular we want to make these databases accessible for studies in poverty and social exclusion. Only Belgian federal databases are used.

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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The researchers are evaluating the safety contracts of 9 middle sized cities and municipals in Flanders. By means of questionnaires with open questions, the different project co-operators in the contracts are questionned about the working of their projects and the genral working of contracts. The information gathered by means of questionnaires is completed and deepened by means of successive interviews with project co-operators.

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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• Research Project

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By means of indepth-interviews with members of two differentiated networks and with social assistants the role of formal and informal networks in the production and sustainment of social exclusion in an urban context will be ascertained.

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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• Research Project

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Describing and analysing poverty and social exclusion in Willebroek.

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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The study starts with basic information about the situation with respect to poverty and social exclusion in Belgium, followed by a short description of the poverty policies pursued in the period 1985-1990. Starting from this we are searching for the materials of an adequate poverty policy, what brings us at last to an inclusive perspective. However, to make this possible, our society has to redefine profoundly her economic thinking and her solidarity-principle.

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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• Research Project

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The support includes contextual, thematic and policy oriented research into different aspects of poverty and social exclusion in Antwerp.focus on the spatioaldistribution on forms of social exlusion

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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• Research Project

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The research project is a sociological study concerning racial discrimination and of proposals of means to further racial equality. In this first stage,a general sociological framework was developed, based on foreign policy-experiences,interviews with spokesmen and a survey into migrant organisations.

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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• Research Project

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The development of a manual to describe poverty on a local level by making a 'poverty-map'. This document aims to support policy-decisions on a local level, in order to realise a local 'inclusive' poverty policy.

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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• Research Project

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By means of depth interviews it is tried to find out which factors are crucial in the process of transmission of poverty. The adaptational approach as formulated by H. Rodman, here serves as a model. Though this study adopts a micro-sociological perspective, attention also is been given to more fundamental socio-econo- mical factors in society.

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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• Research Project

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By means of annual reports informing the European Commission about social exclusion in Belgium,as well as the policy-measures//..taken to combat social exclusion. Social exclusion is defined as 'the process of denying or not realising social rights'.

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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• Research Project

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The aim of this study is to make an inventory of the existing material on poverty , to systematize this material and to fill existing gaps

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• Promoter: Vranken Jan

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• Research Project