CESSMIR — Centre for the Social Study of Migration and Refugees

CESSMIR

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Researchers

Members

Laurence De Backer

• Department of Linguistics

• Communication
• Comparative
• Contemporary
• English
• Field research
• Framing
• Interculturalism
• Language and text analysis
• Latin American migration
• Linguistics
• Media
• Media linguistics
• Metaphors
• North America
• Quantitative
• South America
• Spanish
• US written press

Jorge Disseldorp

• Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication

• Communication
• Contemporary
• English
• Language and text analysis
• Linguistics
• Quantitative
• Western Europe

Renata Enghels

• Department of Linguistics

• Comparative
• Language and text analysis
• Linguistics
• Portuguese
• Quantitative
• Spanish

Chloé Lybaert

• Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication

• Communication
• Didactics
• Interculturalism
• Linguistics

Michael Meeuwis

• Department of Languages and Cultures

• 19th Century
• 20th Century
• Africa
• African languages
• Area studies
• Art
• Belgium
• Communication
• Comparative
• Contemporary
• Dutch
• English
• Ethics and morality
• Field research
• French
• Geographic and map based
• German
• History
• Iconography and analysis of images
• Interculturalism
• Language and text analysis
• Linguistics
• Literary studies
• Media
• Music
• Philosophy
• Portuguese
• Quantitative
• Religion
• Spanish
• Surveys
• Theatre and performing arts
• Translation Studies
• Western Europe

Lotte Remue

• Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication

• Communication
• Linguistics

Projects

PhD research

• Language and guardianship. A sociolinguistic ethnography of the multilingual resources and strategies used in the guidance trajectory of unaccompanied refugee minors (2022 - 2026)
• On the (not so) persuasive potential of metaphorical language in news media communication. Framing the Latin-American migration debate through metaphor (2021 - 2024)
• Egyptian artists in Europe. Mobility, resettlement and the reconfiguration of cultural practices