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Migration, Equality & Racism MIGRATION, EQUALITY & RACISM "is work is licensed under the Creative Commons A#ribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit h#p://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ DOI: 10.46944/9789461171061 Colophon Cover design: Studio Eyal & Myrthe Photography: Esma Alouet Typese!ing: www.frisco.be © 2021 VUBPRESS VUBPRESS is an imprint of ASP nv (Academic and Scienti!c Publishers) Keizerslaan 34 1000 Brussels Tel. +32 (0)2 289 26 56 Fax +32 (0)2 289 26 59 Email [email protected] www.vubpress.be ISBN 978 90 5718 994 4 (Print) ISBN 978 94 6117 106 1 (ePDF) ISBN 978 94 6117 116 0 (epub) NUR 740/755 Legal deposit D/2021/11.161/024 MIGRATION, EQUALITY & RACISM Ilke Adam Tundé Ade!oye Serena D'Agostino Nick Schuermans Florian Trauner (eds.) AUTHORS Adam Ilke Froyen Ilke Severs Eline Ade!oye Tundé Hoens Sylvia Simola Anna Ahmad Yar Ahmad Wali Huang Yijia Siongers Jessy André Géraldine Huysmans Minne Smetcoren An-So!e Arnaut Karel Imeraj Lena Smis Stefaan Asamoah Christil Jung Mariska Spruyt Bram Ay Deniz Kalonji Billy Stutz Philipp Bekers Elisabeth Keppens Gil Swinnen Lena Berdai-Chaouni Saloua Lafaut Dirk Swyngedouw Eva Beyens Kristel Laurijssen Ilse Tacea Angela Bircan Tuba Lechkar Iman Te Braak Petrus Boone Simon Lefevere Jonas "eeboom Marc Bourabain Dounia Lemblé Hélène Trauner Florian Breuls Lars Majdoub Soumaya Van Buggenhout Marijke Celis Karen Mastari Laora Vanderfaeillie Johan Cham Omar N. Meeus Bruno Van Droogenbroeck Filip Chara! Safaa Meurs Pieter Van Heur Bas Claeys Ann Nöstlinger Ne#e Van Holen Frank Crouzé Ronald Orsini Giacomo Van Noord Jochem D’Agostino Serena Pan Honghui Vanobberghen Rita De Backer Liesbet Pandey Shilpi Verhaeghe Pieter-Paul De Hert Paul Petrache Le Guern Laura Weatherburn Amy Deboosere Patrick Roex Ann Westerveen Laura Demirkapu Hakki Sadder Israa Withaeckx Sophie Dumortier Els Schepers Marjolein Zohar Gabriel El Moussawi Hala Schneider Hanna Emery Laura Schuermans Nick Fadil Nadia Serneels Geertrui CONTENTS INTRODUCTION & HUMANISM Acknowledgements 11 Preface 13 Introduction 15 by Ilke Adam, Tundé Ade!oye, Serena D’Agostino, Nick Schuermans and Florian Trauner Towards a Radical Politics of the Human 25 by Gily Coene CONTENTS I Questioning ‘the Human’ in Humanism 31 by Mariska Jung & Sophie Withaeckx PART 1 - MIGRATION 37 Open Borders to (be#er) Govern Migration 40 AND RACISM EQUALITY MIGRATION, by Giacomo Orsini When Border Enforcement Back!res, Alternatives Exist 45 by Angela Tacea and Laura Petrache Le Guern Malthusian Fears in Current Migration Debates. When the Pseudo-Science of Numbers is Used Against Humanity 49 by Patrick Deboosere, Billy Kalonji and Soumaya Majdoub Caught in a Trap. Refugees: Neither Man nor Animal 54 by Eline Severs EU Migration Cooperation with "ird Countries: A Flawed Approach 62 by Philipp Stutz and Ahmad Wali Ahmad Yar Not all Refugees Want to Come to Europe. Most Stay Close to Home 67 by Israa Sadder and Hanna Schneider COVID-19: Political Will is Needed to Safeguard the EU’s Asylum Policy 71 by Florian Trauner 7 Short-Sighted Policies Drive Young EU Migrants into Precarious Jobs 78 by Anna Simola Transit Migration: Brussels Does it Be#er 83 by Ne#e Nöstlinger and Florian Trauner Traumatised Newcomers: Towards a Society that Heals 88 by Lena Swinnen, Omar N Cham, Geertrui Serneels Migration and the Radical Right: A Catch-22 for Journalists 92 by Jonas Lefevere PART 2 - EQUALITY 97 Education 98 "e Opacity of the Education System Creates Disadvantages for Pupils with Migration Backgrounds 98 by Laura Emery, Ilse Laurijssen, Simon Boone and Jochem van Noord Belgian Universities: Decolonize Your Curriculum! 102 CONTENTS I by Christil Asamoah Decolonizing the University: From Happy Diversity To Uncomfortable Dialogues 106 by Sophie Withaeckx A Fatima Mernissi Chair Helps us Create a Pluriversity 111 by Iman Lechkar MIGRATION, EQUALITY AND RACISM EQUALITY MIGRATION, Employment and Housing 117 Creating Legal Migration Channels Alone is Not Su%cient to Minimise the Risk of Labour Exploitation 117 by Amy Weatherburn and Paul de Hert Yes, Mr Charles Michel, Apologizing for Colonial Atrocities is One of the Tools to Combat Underemployment Among Afro-descendants 121 by Ilke Adam and Billy Kalonji Be#er Beginnings, Be#er Prospects? Rethinking Dispersal and Housing Policies for Refugees in Belgium 128 by Hala El Moussawi Care 132 Diverse Care Teams: "e Key to Improving the Quality ofHealth Care in Brussels 132 by Ann Roex, Rita Vanobberghen and Hakki Demirkapu 8 For Equal Access to Care, Awareness-Raising on Implicit Bias is Quintessential 136 by Dirk Lafaut and Marjolein Schepers "e Fallacy of Migrants-Culture Preventing Access to Care in Later Life 141 by Saloua Berdai-Chaouni, Ann Claeys, Sylvia Hoens, Honghui Pan, An-So!e Smetcoren Foster Families Caring for Unaccompanied Refugee Minors Need to Be Supported 145 by Frank Van Holen and Johan Vanderfaeillie Unaccompanied Minor Newcomers: a Village to Raise a Child, One Trustee to Lead the Way 150 by Liesbet De Backer Arts & Sports 154 Until the Lion Has a Voice, the Tales of the Hunt Will Only Be "ose of the Hunter 154 by Elisabeth Bekers and Ilke Froyen ‘Don’t "ey Jump on the Seats?’ Questioning the Underrepresentation of Artists with Migrant Roots in the Cultural Labour Market of Brussels 158 by Eva Swyngedouw Martial Arts for the Personal Development of Deprived Youngsters? CONTENTS I Maybe if We Coach the Coaches! 166 by Marc $eeboom Citizenship, politics & policy 171 We’re All Migrants Here: Citizenship and Urban Social Infrastructure 171 by Bas van Heur, Karel Arnaut and Bruno Meeus AND RACISM EQUALITY MIGRATION, No One is Illegal. Niemand is illegaal! Personne n’est illegal? 178 by Ronald Crouzé, Pieter Meurs, Minne Huysmans Ethnic Diversity in Brussels Politics: "e Next Level 181 by Karen Celis Empowering Cities to Make Immigrant Integration Happen 184 by Deniz Ay Religion 189 Tolerance Towards LGBT Can Be Developed from within Religions 189 by Filip Van Droogenbroeck, Bram Spruyt, Jessy Siongers Europe Needs To Change its Understanding of Secularism to Accommodate Diversity 194 by Shilpi Pandey and Stefaan Smis 9 PART 3 - RACISM, IDENTITY & BELONGING 197 Brussels is Tarred with Racism 199 by Géraldine André, Safaa Chara!, Laura Westerveen and Dounia Bourabain "e Emancipation of Animals Will Not Be Built on Racism 203 by Mariska Jung Anti-Gypsyism: When a ‘Speci!c’ Form of Racism is Considered ‘Reasonable’ 206 by Serena D’Agostino Discrimination from the Majority Society A&ects the Identities of Ethnic Minorities 210 by Yijia Huang Ethnic Studies Major(s) and Archiving Initiatives as Crucial Tools of Liberation 214 by Tundé Ade!oye Tackling Racism in Brussels: Yes We Can! 220 by Dounia Bourabain, Laura Westerveen, Safaa Chara! and Géraldine André Discrimination Tests: A Potential Stepping Stone for Human Rights 224 CONTENTS by Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe I Unity in Diversity: "e Brussels Identity Glues Everyone Together 228 by Petrus te Braak, Laora Mastari, Hélène Lemblé and Gil Keppens From – but not of – Europe: "e Vicious Cycle of Inequalities in Belgium 231 by Gabriel Zohar MIGRATION, EQUALITY AND RACISM EQUALITY MIGRATION, Recognising Diversity: Not “If” but “How” 235 by Lena Imeraj and Tuba Bircan ‘You Don’t Belong Here!’: Expulsion Doubles the Punishment for One Criminal O&ence 240 by Lars Breuls and Kristel Beyens Belgian Children in Syria Should Not Pay for the Sins of "eir Parents 244 by Marijke Van Buggenhout, Nadia Fadil and Els Dumortier Author's Biographies 247 Photographer's Biography 255 Description of the Photographs 256 10 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This book is the result of the active engagement of many people. First of all, the editors would like to thank all the authors for their enthusiasm and energetic collaboration on this project. From the first collective brainstorming exercise until the very end of the process, their constructive and critical feedback has improved the book and compelled us to constantly reexamine our own ideas. We also thank the VUB’s POINcaré think thank and the rectorate for their support and gratefully acknowledge their financial support for this project. Thank you, Caroline Pauwels, Patrick Stouthuysen and Lynn Tytgat for getting the ball rolling. A book with 47 chapters demands a huge amount of coordination and logistical support. This project would have been simply impossible without Jane Verlinden and her endless day-to-day organizational and logistic support. Special thanks go to Tanja Saariaho, Antonia Wilkens and Giulia Rigirozzo for assuming a number of organizational and editorial tasks during their internships. The editors also gratefully acknowledge the support of Hannah Vermaut, the coordinator of BIRMM ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I (VUB’s Brussels Interdisciplinary Research centre on Migration and Minorities), during the late stages of this publication process. Also involved in this book’s production were Esther King, a journalist who taught us academics to write in a more accessible way, and Caroline Walcot, who did a great job in proofreading the chapters. We are grateful to the KVS for kindly providing us with a cultural space and logistical support for the book launch. AND RACISM EQUALITY MIGRATION, 11 PREFACE All the major challenges that we face today as a society require a multidisciplinary approach. And yet almost all our scientific institutes are organized within the boundaries of one discipline. To change that, in the fall of 2016, I brought together a group of researchers of all ages and working in very diverse fields of science. My question was simple: think about what you would like to research together in the light of the challenges we face today as a society. This resulted in various project groups: one on the idea of a humane city, another on the social consequences of robotization, a third one on migration and, in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, a new ad hoc group emerged.
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