Reflections on…

Reflections on…

Reflections on the experience of time during fieldwork with young migrants on the move   In the course of my research with unaccompanied refugee minors (URMs), I became aware of the existence of rhythms in their migration trajectories. During a collaborative...
An airborne ethical dilemma

An airborne ethical dilemma

  I vaguely remember that day. I was on my way back to Belgium from Italy after completing a round of follow up interviews and follow up with my study participants. I had a stopover en route to Brussels and as soon as I got on my connecting flight, I found my...
“Through the looking glass”

“Through the looking glass”

A year “through the looking glass”. “Time is the longest distance between two places.” Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie It has been 13 months since my last business trip. On February 29, 2020, I left Greece, not for Milan – as planned – but for my...
Becoming a parent abroad

Becoming a parent abroad

While seven months have already passed since I joined the ChildMove team in Ghent (wow, time flies!!) I have lived in Belgium for over three years now! Since I left Italy for the first time in 2005 – since I moved to sunny Valencia, in Spain, to live and study...
Volunteers and..

Volunteers and..

Volunteers and the chain of events Life is an unpredictable chain of events. One thing leads to another, which leads to another, which… you get the picture. A doctoral dissertation is no different from that. You start out with one idea, you write an article, you find...
Ethically mapping migration

Ethically mapping migration

Migration is by definition a spatial event with spatial components like space, routes and borders. Therefore, key features to understand, illustrate and talk about migration are maps. We, the Childmove team, are planning on making maps as well to summarize and...