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

Zahra El Morabit Sghire

• Department of Literary Studies

• Contemporary
• Contemporary literature
• Interculturality
• Literary studies
• Spanish
• Spanish literature

Renata Enghels

• Department of Linguistics

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

Lisa Franke

• Department of Languages and Cultures

• 18th Century
• 19th Century
• 20th Century
• Africa
• Anthropology
• Arabic
• Arabic literature
• Area studies
• Asia
• Body studies
• Comparative
• Contemporary
• Ethics and morality
• Field research
• Gender
• History
• Iconography and analysis of images
• Islam
• Islamic history
• Islamic Studies
• Language and text analysis
• Late Antiquity
• Literary studies
• Media
• Middle East
• Modern society
• Popular culture
• Religion

Noa Jacobs

• Department of Languages and Cultures

• Arabic
• Field research
• Middle East

Chloé Lybaert

• Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication

• Communication
• Didactics
• Interculturalism
• Linguistics

Katrijn Maryns

• Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication

• Field research
• Interculturalism
• Language and text analysis
• Linguistics
• Translation Studies

Eleonora Mazzanti

• Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication

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

Laura Robaey

• Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication

• Communication
• Gender
• Interculturalism
• Linguistics
• Translation Studies

Elisa Robbe

• Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication

• Communication
• Contemporary
• English
• Field research
• Identity
• Language and text analysis
• Linguistics
• Media
• Migration
• North America
• South America
• Spanish
• Translation Studies

Alexandra Sanchez

• Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication

Shauny Seynhaeve

• Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication

• Belgium
• Communication
• Contemporary
• Didactics
• Field research
• Interculturalism
• Linguistics
• Quantitative

Affiliated Members

Jente De Coninck

• Department of Linguistics

• Belgium
• Central Europe
• Contemporary
• Content analysis
• Diversity in education
• Ethnography
• Gender
• Higher education
• inclusion
• Interculturalism
• North America
• Northern Europe
• Qualitative research
• Social inequalities in education
• Sociology
• Sociology of education
• Sociology of inequalities
• student diversity
• Western Europe

Emma Maes

• Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication

• Dutch
• Linguistics

Elisa Robbe

• Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication

• Communication
• Contemporary
• English
• Field research
• Identity
• Language and text analysis
• Linguistics
• Media
• Migration
• North America
• South America
• Spanish
• Translation Studies

Projects

Multiresearcher project

• UNPACK: Unpacking the asylum procedure in its intersecting linguistic, sociocultural, psychological and legal dimensions (2026 - 2029)
• EU-WEBPSI. Developing an EU web portal for webcam public service interpreting to improve access to basic services for third-country nationals (2022 - 2025)
• AMICA. Adjusting multilingual information provision on communication needs in asylum reception (2020 - 2022)

Postdoc research

• Lawyering between counselling and adjudication. A sociolinguistic ethnography of legal assistance in the Belgian asylum procedure (2022 - 2025)

PhD research

• Interdialectal accommodation in Arabic: a linguistic ethnography of public service interpreting in Brussels (2025 - 2028)
• Investigating the lived experiences of refugees in post-apartheid Cape Town: A discourse analysis (2025 - 2028)
• Accent bias in secondary and higher education (2024 - 2028)
• Language, asylum and identity in the Belgian reception network: the on/off-line discourses of 'being/ being-made' and 'being from here/ not being from here' (2024 - 2028)
• ATLAM. Audiovisual transfer in Latin American migration (2024 - 2028)
• 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 - 2025)
• Egyptian artists in Europe. Mobility, resettlement and the reconfiguration of cultural practices (2020 -

Research project

• MaTIAS. Machine translation to inform asylum seekers (2023 - 2025)
• Language and guardianship. A sociolinguistic ethnography of the multilingual resources and strategies used in the guidance trajectory of unaccompanied refugee minors (2022 - 2026)
• Video-remote interpreting in the Fedasil reception network (2021 - 2022)