About the Centre
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
News at the Centre
Publications
From Trevi to Europol: Germany’s role in the integration of EU police cooperation
Migration, Equality and Racism
Positive State Obligations Regarding Fundamental Rights and ‘Changing the Hearts and Minds’
Events
The Effects of Second Generation Youths' Identity on Their Political Participation
Decolonising the University
Towards the decolonization of (EU) migration studies
News
Malasree Neepa Acharya defends her PhD thesis
Laura Westerveen defends her PhD thesis
In the media
VUB-politicologen over het nieuwe inburgeringsdecreet
‘Getraumatiseerde nieuwkomers – naar een samenleving die heelt’
‘Beleidsteksten Vlaamse overheid negeren probleem van racisme’
Projects
BIRMM: Brussels Interdisciplinary Research centre on Migration and Minorities
VUB
The immigration-federalism nexus: taking the subnational level seriously
Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Jean Monnet Chair: EXPAND - Explaining Resilience in EU Justice and Home Affairs
Erasmus +
Jean Monnet Module: Europe Explained - Inter-University Summer School on EU Policy-making
Erasmus +
Jean Monnet Module: The Economics of European (Dis) -integration
Erasmus +
EMPOWER-YOUTH: Obstacles et leviers à la participation sociétale et citoyenne des jeunes Bruxellois défavorisés
Innoviris Brussels
Who wins the legislative battle? Tracing legislative change and policy ideas in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek