Author’s corner

28th November, 2020 in Author’s corner

“People’s (im)mobilities within and across borders are shaped by very different structural factors like gender, class, ethnicity, citizenship, as well as by factors such as the recognition of educational credentials in a given place, or the desirabil…

28th November, 2020 in Author’s corner

  “There is a global need nowadays to attract people’s attention to translators and their contribution, and to finally admit that without translators our world would be completely different.” In her book Personality Matters Olha Lehka-Paul…

6th October, 2020 in Author’s corner

“Muslim integration in German society, or Europe in general, is a challenge. But the pop culture industry and humour can make a difference and really make a change.” Comedy entertainment is a powerful arena for serious public engagement with question…

29th September, 2020 in Author’s corner

Artists such as Zeina Abirached, Baru and Boudjellal have been impressive in their efforts to decolonize French comics and set the record straight on migration, by telling stories about migrants and postcolonial minority groups from the inside, as it…

25th September, 2020 in Author’s corner

 Foto: Koen Broos Nieuwsgierigheid is de sleutel tot alles: stel vragen (een talige activiteit!) en ga op zoek naar antwoorden (ook zoiets ‘taligs’…). Talen staan in de hoek waar de klappen vallen en de kennis ervan gaat met rasse schreden…

25th June, 2020 in Author’s corner

The role of public broadcasting is crucial here because of the efforts made to make the news and current affairs programs polyphonic. It can always be better and changes are slow, but at a time when antagonisms between and within population groups ar…

5th June, 2020 in Author’s corner

“Wat heel vreemd is, natuurlijk, is dat het boekje bedoeld was om te verschijnen ter gelegenheid van de nieuwe productie van de Faust-Szenen door Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, maar dat die productie omwille van de COVID19-crisis is uitgesteld. Voor mij vo…

26th February, 2020 in Author’s corner

  “It was very difficult to find a way of writing about the different perspectives of France and Africa, of Africans in France and the French in Africa.” French colonisers of the Third Republic claimed not to oppress but to liberate, imagining they w…

17th February, 2020 in Author’s corner

“In order to provide solutions to future problems in the public sector, it is necessary for the academic field of Public Administration to re-invent itself.” The public sector in our society has over the past two decades undergone substantial changes…

7th February, 2020 in Author’s corner

“Dit boek toont aan dat wie een complex en gelaagd fenomeen als migratiebeleid wil begrijpen, rekening zal moeten houden met heel veel factoren, en daarbij de rol van het lokale bestuursniveau niet uit het oog mag verliezen.” In de negentiende eeuw b…

14th January, 2020 in Author’s corner

“Art reminds us of the impossibility of his death and leaves us horrified every time one remembers the tragedy.” It is no coincidence that a historical figure such as Patrice Emery Lumumba, independent Congo’s first prime minister, who was killed in…

19th April, 2019 in Author’s corner

“I hope readers would remember the value of studying history; both its intrinsic value, and the importance of learning history in order to better understand the past and the present.” In ‘The Leopard, the Lion, and the Cock’ Matthew Stanard exam…