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The Centre for Migration, Diversity and Justice Centre (CMDJ) focuses on the multi-level governance and politics of immigration, justice and home affairs, immigrant integration, diversity and equality. It hosts the VUB’s Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Migration and Minorities (BIRMM), which gathers more than 100 VUB researchers from 11 disciplines.
Controlling who enters and who stays in the national territory, who has the right to be a member of the national community, and what rights members and non-members of the national community have, have long been considered a prerogative of the nation state. Yet, during the last decades, elements of these policy areas have been shifted upwards, to the international level (EU and international organizations), downwards, to the sub-state level (regional and local authorities) and outwards (to countries of origin, transit and private actors). Whilst many research institutes study immigration and immigrant integration, we distinguish ourselves by our multi-level governance focus, as well as by the prioritisation of three key themes that will prominently figure on European and national policy agendas in the coming decade.
Key themes
- EU asylum and migration governance, with a particular focus on its external dimension and the involvement of third states in the governance of immigration
- European anti-discrimination policies and politics
- EU Justice and Home Affairs
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News
Jimmy Hendry Nzally successfully defends PhD thesis
Centre for Migration, Diversity and Justice organises Migration Lecture Series
Publications
Projects
BIRMM: Brussels Interdisciplinary Research centre on Migration and Minorities
VUB
Whole-COMM: Exploring the Integration of Post-2014 Migrants in Small and Medium-Sized Towns and Rural Areas from a Whole of Community Perspective
European Commission - Horizon 2020
BRIDGES: Assessing the production and impact of migration narratives
European Commission - Horizon 2020
The immigration-federalism nexus: taking the subnational level seriously
Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek