BELGIUM
Antwerps
Centrum voor Migrantenstudies, Department Sociologie en Sociaal Beleid
Association pour le Droit
des Etrangers – ADDE
Centre de Sociologie et d'Economie
Regionale
Centre d'Etude de
l'Ethnicite et de Migrations – CEDEM
Centre for European Policy
Studies – CEPS
Departement Sociale en Culturele
Anthropologie (Leuven)
The European Bureau for Lesser
Used Languages
European Foundation Centre – EFC
The European Human Rights
Foundation – EHRF
Groupe de Recherche sur
l'Histoire de l'Immigration
Groupe
d'Etudes des Migrations et des Relations Interethniques – GREM
Hoger Instituut voor de Arbeid
– HIVA
Instituut voor Europese Vorming
– IEV
King Baudouin Foundation
Migration and Ethnicity Research
Institute – MERIB
Migration Policy Group – MPG
Vakgroep
Vergelijkende Cultuurwetenschappen en Afrikaanse Talen
ANTWERPS
CENTRUM VOOR MIGRANTENSTUDIES, DEPARTMENT SOCIOLOGIE EN SOCIAAL BELEID
This Centre is an initiative of several of the University’s departments. The Institute has a specialist interest in migrant studies in general and migration law in particular. The Centre offers a course, and an annual conference on migration law.
The Centre publishes a series of books on migration law and on migration and integration.
ASSOCIATION POUR LE DROIT
DES ETRANGERS – ADDE
ADDE is a non-profit-making organisation of jurists, lawyers and social workers concerned with foreigners’ rights and their working conditions.
ADDE publishes La Revue du droit des étrangers, which deals with the evolution of legislation and jurisprudence of foreigners’ rights.
CENTRE DE SOCIOLOGIE ET D'ECONOMIE
REGIONALE
The Centre works on economic and social aspects of immigration.
CENTRE D'ETUDE DE
L'ETHNICITE ET DE MIGRATIONS – CEDEM
This Centre was established by statute of the University as a free-standing research group to conduct multi-disciplinary research in the areas of migration, interethnic relations and racism. Current research projects are: national identities in the European Meuse-Rhine region; the political participation and mobilisation of ethnic minorities in selected European countries, European immigration policy; multiculturalism and citizenship in Europe and North America.
CEDEM staff runs three courses on ‘Culture et Politique’, ‘Politiques Migratoires et Pluralisme Culturel dans l’Union Européenne’, and ‘Structures familiales, dynamiques culturelles et développement’.
CEDEM collaborates within Belgium with GREM in Louvain-la-Neuve and with the International Pragmatics Association in Antwerp. It also has a range of collaborators elsewhere in Europe, including CRER in UK, CERI in Paris, the Centro Studi Emigrazione in Rome and ERCOMER in Utrecht.
CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN POLICY
STUDIES – CEPS
Place du Congres 1, B-1000 Brussels
Tel.: ++32 2 2293911
Fax: ++32 2 2194151
E-mail: ludlow@ceps.be
Director: Peter Ludlow
Research papers produced by the CEPS include ‘The minority question in Europe: towards the creation of a coherent European regime’ by Florence Benoit-Rohmer and Hilde Hardeman.
DEPARTEMENT SOCIALE EN CULTURELE
ANTHROPOLOGIE
Catholic University of Leuven
Tiesestraat 102, B-3000 Leuven
Tel.: ++32 16 326++7
Fax: ++32 16 326000
E-mail: greetlauvrijs@psy.kuleuven.ac.be
The Department runs a project in the field of social anthropology and focuses on the cultures of ethnic minority groups, under the directorship of Professor Eugeen Roosens.
THE EUROPEAN BUREAU FOR LESSER
USED LANGUAGES
Information Centre: 49 Sint-Jooststraat, B-1210 Brussels
Tel.: ++32 2 2182590
Fax: ++32 2 2181974
Website: www.eblul.org
Contact: Aina Villalonga
The aim of the European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages is to conserve and promote the regional, autochthonous languages and cultures of the European Union. It works in close co-operation with European institutions, especially the European Parliament and Commission, and the Council of Europe. The Head Office is in Dublin (see entry under Ireland). The Information Centre works in the field of information and documentation, and publishes and collects works on the lesser used languages.
EUROPEAN FOUNDATION CENTRE – EFC
Rue de la Concorde 51, B-1050 Brussels
Tel.: ++32 2 5128938
Fax: ++32 2 5123265
E-mail: Mila@efc.be
Director: John Richardson
The EFC is a membership-led association which promotes foundations and corporate citizenship in the development of the New Europe. Established in Brussels on 9 November 1989, the EFC provides a range of practical benefits and services to approximately 120 independent funders active in Europe and to over 5,000 associates and affiliates linked through EFC networking centres.
The EFC’s aims are: development of swift, flexible and co-ordinated responses to social, cultural, environmental, educational, scientific, health and economic challenges that governments alone cannot address; reinforcement of the infrastructure of civil society by the encouragement of training, research and self-help programmes and facilities; and defence of fundamental human rights and freedoms. In 1995, it promoted the establishment of an ‘International Commission on the Balkans’ which produced a report in October 1996.
THE EUROPEAN HUMAN RIGHTS
FOUNDATION – EHRF
70 Avenue Michel-Ange, B-1040 Brussels
Tel.: ++32 2 7349424
Fax: ++32 2 7346831
E-mail: ehrf@gn.apc.org
The EHRF was set up by the European Commission, the European Parliament and human rights NGOs in 1980. Its objectives are the promotion and protection worldwide of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights as they are at present laid down in international instruments, and the promotion of humanitarian aims in general.
Since its inception the EHRF has distributed grants to non-governmental organisations and individuals for work in the human rights field. This programme is titled ‘European Human Rights Fund’ to distinguish it from other funds managed by the EHRF.
The EHRF also provides information to NGOs regarding the European Union’s human rights work and funding available from the EU.
GROUPE DE RECHERCHE SUR
L'HISTOIRE DE L'IMMIGRATION
Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres de l’Université Libre
de Brussels
Avenue F.D. Roosevelt 17, B-1050 Brussels
Tel.: ++32 2 650 3848/3346
Fax: ++32 2 650 3918
E-mail: amorelli@ulb.ac.be
The Group focuses on the history of immigration. Current research includes work on Belgian emigrants in the 16th century.
The Group publishes anthologies, monographs and teaching materials.
GROUPE
D'ETUDES DES MIGRATIONS ET DES RELATIONS INTERETHNIQUES – GREM
Département des Sciences Politiques et Sociales
Université Catholique de Louvain
Place Montesquieu 1, Boite 21, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
E-mail: mariscal@sspo.ucl.ac.be
Director: Felice Dassetto
The Department of Political and Social Sciences at the Université Catholique de Louvain has a specialist interest in Islamic studies, and collaborates with CEDEM.
HOGER INSTITUUT VOOR DE ARBEID –
HIVA
Catholic University of Leuven, Migration Research Unit
E. van Evenstraat 2A, B-3000 Leuven
Tel.: ++32 16 323103
Fax: ++32 16 323134
Research Group Director: Joan Ramakers
The Migration Research Unit is a project group of the HIVA, The Higher Institute of Labour Studies, which is a joint initiative of the Catholic University of Leuven and the Labour Movement. At HIVA, 10 research projects are under way, covering five themes: comparative asylum policies in Europe; clandestine labour; ethnic entrepreneurs; education and migrants; migrant organisation. HIVA has a range of contacts with other research institutes specialising in labour market studies.
INSTITUUT VOOR EUROPESE VORMING
– IEV
Montoyerst. 1, Box 20, B-1000 Brussels
Fax: ++32 2 4285614
Director: Yvo J.D. Peeters
Research Centre for Ethnic Group Rights: Founded in 1978, IEV is a non-governmental research organisation linked to the European Studies and Training Institute, and affiliated with the Human Rights Information and Documentation System, International Institute for Nationality Rights and Regionalism, and Mercator Network. Its objective is to conduct research into ethnic, national and language problems, as well as provide advice and consultancy in conflict management.
Documentation and Information Network on Nationalism and Interethnic Relations (DINNIR): Founded in 1989, it is a privately-financed non- governmental organisation, also linked to the European Training Institute, and affiliated with the organisations mentioned above, containing over 50,000 entries on ethnic problems.
KING BAUDOUIN FOUNDATION
Rue Brederode 21, B-1000 Brussels
Tel.: ++32 2 5111840
Fax: ++32 2 5115221
The Foundation, in partnership with the European Cultural Foundation and the Soros Foundation, runs the ‘Programme for the improvement of interethnic relations in mixed regions in Central and Eastern Europe’. The programme involves nine Eastern European countries (Albania, Hungary, Kosovo, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, the Slovak Republic and Ukraine) and includes: proposals to support five local projects per country; three regional meetings; and an international meeting bringing together representatives of all nine countries. The Foundation aims to produce a publication on the situation of interethnic relations at a local level, with a particular focus on those regions which receive project support.
MIGRATION AND ETHNICITY
RESEARCH INSTITUTE – MERIB
Dept. of Social and cultural anthropology, KU Leuven
Teinsestraat 192, B-3000 Leuven
Tel.: ++32 16326093
E-mail: ChingLin@kul.ac.ve
Executive Director: Johan Leman
MERIB is an interdisciplinary and interdepartmental research institute concerned with qualitative, mainly anthropological research in the fields of migration, ethnicity and racism, and also using comparisons with other locations for elucidation. Research topics include: new trends in migration and ethnicity; interethnicity; ethnic minorities and the labour market; mediterranean cultures and migration in Europe; ethnic minorities and identity.
MIGRATION POLICY GROUP – MPG
Rue Joseph II 174, B-1000 Brussels
Tel.: ++32 2 2305930
Fax: ++32 2 2800925
E-mail: info@migpolgroup.com
Website: www.fhit.org/mpg
Director: Dr Jan Niessen
The Migration Policy Group is an independent, non-partisan organisation committed to improving policy development on migration and integration issues through the promotion of facilitated exchange between key stakeholders and the production of substantive, comparative policy analysis. MPG bases its activities on the belief that high-level discussion and debate within and between countries among representatives of all sectors of society – public, private and voluntary – can contribute to the identification and implementation of innovative and effective responses to the challenges and opportunities posed by increasing diversity in Europe.
The Group publishes an annual report, available on the website, which gives detailed information on their aims and activities.
VAKGROEP
VERGELIJKENDE CULTUURWETENSCHAPPEN EN AFRIKAANSE TALEN
University of Ghent
Rozier 44, B-9000 Ghent
Tel.: ++32 9 2644130
Director: Dr Rik Pinxten
Within the Department there is the Centre ‘Steunpunt ICO’ (Centre for the study of Intercultural Education), which has 14 researchers. The Centre is setting up an international network: University of Ghent, BE; Syracuse University, USA; Department of Psychology, Universit
é de Toulouse, FR; and Department of Anthropology, Utrecht University, NL. The research themes are: intercultural education, including research on education in native languages and cultures (Turkish and Italian) for immigrants in Flanders; intercultural negotiation, including research on formal theory for intercultural negotiation based on a book, Culturen sterven langzaam; theoretical work, involving the Universities of Ghent, Syracuse and Brussels; and case studies, including China – Europe: University of Leuven; Northern France: the University of Ghent; Bouriat, Siberia: University of Ghent; Kenya – Europe: University of Ghent; Human rights and minorities: Utrecht University.