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Research Migrants in Belgium as Development Agents: Capturing the Benefits of Transnational Spaces
The Students of the Master of Cultures and Development Studies (CADES), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven are doing a research on Migrants in Belgium as development Agents.
Our research will focus on migrant women who are active agents keeping ties with both, host country (Belgium) and home country. This means all kind of entrepreneurship activities, building social fields that cross geographic, cultural, and political borders (business women, artists etc). We want to examine the influence they have through their activities on those spaces. How they influence Belgium? How they influence by their activities their home country?
We define transnationalism as the process by which immigrants forge and sustain multi-stranded social relations that link together their societies of origin and settlement. We call these processes transnationalism to emphasize that many immigrants today build social fields that cross geographic, cultural, and political borders. Immigrants who develop and maintain multiple relationships-familial, economic, social, organizational, religious, and political - that span borders we call "transmigrants." An essential element of transnationalism is the multiplicity of involvements that transmigrants sustain in both home and host societies.
I will be grateful for any input from everybody interested to help in the research. We have a tight deadline, 7th of April, so please contact me without hesitation.
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