Bienvenue sur mon blog. Vous y trouverez des informations sur mes recherches, mes publications et l’équipe de recherche que je dirige, le CEDEM. Vous y trouverez aussi des galeries de mes photos de terrain ainsi que des textes d’opinion sur des thèmes en relation avec mes travaux scientifiques.
After Lampedusa … Lampedusa?
Newsletter of ISA (International sociological association) - Research Committee on sociology of migration, Autumn 2013. October 2013 will be remembered as an exceptionally bad month for migration: about 400 people died in the Mediterranean Sea not far from the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, trying to reach the European continent. Immigration [...]
Professional sport and international migration: a complex relationship
Newsletter of ISA (International sociological association) - Research Committee on sociology of migration, Spring 2013. Nobody outside Belgium knows the small Flemish city of Beveren. Nobody knows or cares that it has a professional football (soccer, for the North Americans) team in the Belgian Premier League. So what? What is [...]
The irresistible quest for new concepts, theories and paradigms
Newsletter of ISA (International sociological association) - Research Committee on sociology of migration, Autumn 2012. Academia in general has become a worldwide market. Migration studies in particular have also become a worldwide market. Markets always imply competition for leadership or at least for an increase in each participant’s share of [...]
Remembering John Rex
Newsletter of ISA (International sociological association) - Research Committee on sociology of migration, Spring 2012. John Rex passed away in December 2011. Most of us know his very influential work on race, ethnicity and multiculturalism. With Michael Banton, he was a pioneer in ethnic and racial studies not only in [...]
Europe: the return of emigration?
Newsletter of ISA (International sociological association) - Research Committee on sociology of migration, Autumn 2011. As in other parts of the world, the public debates on immigration and integration of new migrants in European are often fierce, emotional and irrational. In the current financial, economic and social crisis, the old [...]
