E Mescoli
Biographic Data
| ID | 19046 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Mescoli |
| GIVEN NAMES | E |
| FAMILY NAME | Mescoli |
| SIGNATURE | MESCOLI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liège |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8283-5524 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Is sustainable food inclusive? Reflections from fieldwork in Liège, Belgium
peer reviewed
Arts and Refugees: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Vol. 2)
Published in 2019, the Special Issue entitled “Arts and Refugees: Multidisciplinary Perspectives” gathered together a set of articles exploring the role of art created and performed by refugees settled in urban European contexts [...]
International Student Experiences in Three Superdiverse Higher Education Institutions: Institutional Policies and Intersectionalities
Higher education has been facing many challenges due to factors including increased diversification, internationalization, massification, and the expansion of different forms of mobility, which are transforming the landscape of higher education towards “superdiversity”. These challenges are addressed within the framework of “inclusive education”, aiming to increase participation and foster a culture of welcome at higher education institutions. Ho…
Food hospitality and the negotiation of subjectivities through meals in the context of migration: Case studies from Belgium
peer reviewed
La Belgique face à la crise migratoire: Analyse critique de l’accueil
Le discours sur la « crise migratoire » apparu depuis 2015 décrit un double processus : d’une part, l’augmentation progressive du nombre de demandeurs d’asile cherchant refuge en Europe ; d’autre part, une crise de l’accueil questionnant les politiques de gestion de ces nouveaux migrants. Ce chapitre vise à interroger plus particulièrement ce deuxième aspect depuis l’expérience et le vécu des acteurs concernés. Sur base des résultats d’un projet …
The ambivalent relations behind civil society's engagement in the "grey zones" of migration and integration governance: Case studies from Belgium
Multi-Level Governance and Sanctuary Cities: The Case of Liège (Belgium) and Undocumented Migrants
Debates about migration issues are spread across various levels of contemporary Belgian society, where a process of policy restriction is in place, as well as federal discourse aimed at discouraging arrivals. This climate affects not only newcomers, but also those who have been residing in the country for years without managing to regularize their residence status. Within this global framework, local initiatives have developed to support migrants…
Les initiatives citoyennes de soutien aux migrants en Belgique. De l’humanitaire à la contestation politique
À l’instar de nombreux pays européens, la Belgique fait face depuis 2015 à l’arrivée de migrants marqués par une extrême vulnérabilité. Leur accueil a amené les sociétés européennes à se polariser autour de la question migratoire et a suscité de larges débats portant sur la gestion sécuritaire des migrations et les réponses humanitaires à apporter. Dans ce contexte, la Belgique a vu fleurir de nombreuses initiatives citoyennes désirant combler le…
Special issue introduction: From nature to culture? Lévi-Strauss’ legacy and the study of contemporary foodways
This introduction and special issue explores the legacy of Claude Lévi-Strauss for the study of contemporary foodways. We revisit Lévi-Strauss’ structural writing about food through different angles. To begin with, based on our ethnographic research with Moroccan cooks, we propose to consider some basic elements of food culture as an “alphabet,” as a shared language and, more generally, as a formally structured and normalized set of practices. Th…
The Refugee Reception Crisis: Polarized Opinions and Mobilizations
The refugee question occupied centre stage at every political debate in Europe since 2015. Starting from the "long summer of migration", the polarization of opinions and attitudes towards asylum seekers among citizens of the EU has grown increasingly. The divergence between hospitality and hostility has also become evident in political reactions
Creating Undocumented EU Migrants through Welfare: A Conceptualization of Undeserving and Precarious Citizenship
Following the financial and economic crisis, welfare policies across the EU are increasingly becoming instruments for limiting the mobility of certain EU migrants. In this article, we focus on EU citizens who see their freedom of movement in the EU being restricted after they have applied for social assistance or unemployment benefits in their country of residence. Doing so, we conceptualize undocumented EU migration by means of the concepts of '…
Countries of Origin as Organisers of Emigration: Moroccans and Turks in Belgium
La pratique du terrain « chez soi

Islamic Food Practices in a Migration Context: An Ethnography Among Moroccan Women in Milan (Italy)
NGOs and female circumcision in Egypt: An anthropological enquiry
peer reviewed
Les recettes de l'Autre: De la transmission des savoirs (et savoir-faire) féminins en contexte migratoire
La transmission des patrimoines culinaires constitue un élément stratégique de la rencontre entre les migrants et leur société d'accueil. Récit de soi concocté en cuisine, la nourriture apparaît comme un puissant ressort de la visibilité des femmes migrantes dans l'espace public. Des initiatives multiculturelles en Italie et en Belgique montrent comment se négocie cette scène commune, dans le choix des pratiques et des plats. Derrière le partage …
Towards the elsewhere: Discourses on migration and mobility practices between Morocco and Italy
The objective of this article is to analyse the preparation process of young Moroccan migrants intended to migrate to Italy. My focus is on the personal and collective formulation of their desire to leave and on concomitant action taken to bring about these aspirations; highlighting the complexity of the imagination, which migration – and expected return – entails. A second point of interest is the agency exerted by such youth, as they prepare fo…
Creating Undocumented EU Migrants through Welfare: A Conceptualization of Undeserving and Precarious Citizenship
Following the financial and economic crisis, welfare policies across the EU are increasingly becoming instruments for limiting the mobility of certain EU migrants. In this article, we focus on EU citizens who see their freedom of movement in the EU being restricted after they have applied for social assistance or unemployment benefits in their country of residence. Doing so, we conceptualize undocumented EU migration by means of the concepts of '…
Multi-Level Governance and Sanctuary Cities: The Case of Liège (Belgium) and Undocumented Migrants
Debates about migration issues are spread across various levels of contemporary Belgian society, where a process of policy restriction is in place, as well as federal discourse aimed at discouraging arrivals. This climate affects not only newcomers, but also those who have been residing in the country for years without managing to regularize their residence status. Within this global framework, local initiatives have developed to support migrants…
The ambivalent relations behind civil society's engagement in the "grey zones" of migration and integration governance: Case studies from Belgium
Les recettes de l'Autre: De la transmission des savoirs (et savoir-faire) féminins en contexte migratoire
La transmission des patrimoines culinaires constitue un élément stratégique de la rencontre entre les migrants et leur société d'accueil. Récit de soi concocté en cuisine, la nourriture apparaît comme un puissant ressort de la visibilité des femmes migrantes dans l'espace public. Des initiatives multiculturelles en Italie et en Belgique montrent comment se négocie cette scène commune, dans le choix des pratiques et des plats. Derrière le partage …
International Student Experiences in Three Superdiverse Higher Education Institutions: Institutional Policies and Intersectionalities
Higher education has been facing many challenges due to factors including increased diversification, internationalization, massification, and the expansion of different forms of mobility, which are transforming the landscape of higher education towards “superdiversity”. These challenges are addressed within the framework of “inclusive education”, aiming to increase participation and foster a culture of welcome at higher education institutions. Ho…
Food hospitality and the negotiation of subjectivities through meals in the context of migration: Case studies from Belgium
peer reviewed
Special issue introduction: From nature to culture? Lévi-Strauss’ legacy and the study of contemporary foodways
This introduction and special issue explores the legacy of Claude Lévi-Strauss for the study of contemporary foodways. We revisit Lévi-Strauss’ structural writing about food through different angles. To begin with, based on our ethnographic research with Moroccan cooks, we propose to consider some basic elements of food culture as an “alphabet,” as a shared language and, more generally, as a formally structured and normalized set of practices. Th…
La pratique du terrain « chez soi

Towards the elsewhere: Discourses on migration and mobility practices between Morocco and Italy
The objective of this article is to analyse the preparation process of young Moroccan migrants intended to migrate to Italy. My focus is on the personal and collective formulation of their desire to leave and on concomitant action taken to bring about these aspirations; highlighting the complexity of the imagination, which migration – and expected return – entails. A second point of interest is the agency exerted by such youth, as they prepare fo…
Islamic Food Practices in a Migration Context: An Ethnography Among Moroccan Women in Milan (Italy)
NGOs and female circumcision in Egypt: An anthropological enquiry
peer reviewed
Les recettes de l'Autre: De la transmission des savoirs (et savoir-faire) féminins en contexte migratoire
La transmission des patrimoines culinaires constitue un élément stratégique de la rencontre entre les migrants et leur société d'accueil. Récit de soi concocté en cuisine, la nourriture apparaît comme un puissant ressort de la visibilité des femmes migrantes dans l'espace public. Des initiatives multiculturelles en Italie et en Belgique montrent comment se négocie cette scène commune, dans le choix des pratiques et des plats. Derrière le partage …
Countries of Origin as Organisers of Emigration: Moroccans and Turks in Belgium
La pratique du terrain « chez soi

Creating Undocumented EU Migrants through Welfare: A Conceptualization of Undeserving and Precarious Citizenship
Following the financial and economic crisis, welfare policies across the EU are increasingly becoming instruments for limiting the mobility of certain EU migrants. In this article, we focus on EU citizens who see their freedom of movement in the EU being restricted after they have applied for social assistance or unemployment benefits in their country of residence. Doing so, we conceptualize undocumented EU migration by means of the concepts of '…
The Refugee Reception Crisis: Polarized Opinions and Mobilizations
The refugee question occupied centre stage at every political debate in Europe since 2015. Starting from the "long summer of migration", the polarization of opinions and attitudes towards asylum seekers among citizens of the EU has grown increasingly. The divergence between hospitality and hostility has also become evident in political reactions
Les initiatives citoyennes de soutien aux migrants en Belgique. De l’humanitaire à la contestation politique
À l’instar de nombreux pays européens, la Belgique fait face depuis 2015 à l’arrivée de migrants marqués par une extrême vulnérabilité. Leur accueil a amené les sociétés européennes à se polariser autour de la question migratoire et a suscité de larges débats portant sur la gestion sécuritaire des migrations et les réponses humanitaires à apporter. Dans ce contexte, la Belgique a vu fleurir de nombreuses initiatives citoyennes désirant combler le…
Special issue introduction: From nature to culture? Lévi-Strauss’ legacy and the study of contemporary foodways
This introduction and special issue explores the legacy of Claude Lévi-Strauss for the study of contemporary foodways. We revisit Lévi-Strauss’ structural writing about food through different angles. To begin with, based on our ethnographic research with Moroccan cooks, we propose to consider some basic elements of food culture as an “alphabet,” as a shared language and, more generally, as a formally structured and normalized set of practices. Th…
The ambivalent relations behind civil society's engagement in the "grey zones" of migration and integration governance: Case studies from Belgium
Multi-Level Governance and Sanctuary Cities: The Case of Liège (Belgium) and Undocumented Migrants
Debates about migration issues are spread across various levels of contemporary Belgian society, where a process of policy restriction is in place, as well as federal discourse aimed at discouraging arrivals. This climate affects not only newcomers, but also those who have been residing in the country for years without managing to regularize their residence status. Within this global framework, local initiatives have developed to support migrants…
La Belgique face à la crise migratoire: Analyse critique de l’accueil
Le discours sur la « crise migratoire » apparu depuis 2015 décrit un double processus : d’une part, l’augmentation progressive du nombre de demandeurs d’asile cherchant refuge en Europe ; d’autre part, une crise de l’accueil questionnant les politiques de gestion de ces nouveaux migrants. Ce chapitre vise à interroger plus particulièrement ce deuxième aspect depuis l’expérience et le vécu des acteurs concernés. Sur base des résultats d’un projet …
International Student Experiences in Three Superdiverse Higher Education Institutions: Institutional Policies and Intersectionalities
Higher education has been facing many challenges due to factors including increased diversification, internationalization, massification, and the expansion of different forms of mobility, which are transforming the landscape of higher education towards “superdiversity”. These challenges are addressed within the framework of “inclusive education”, aiming to increase participation and foster a culture of welcome at higher education institutions. Ho…
Food hospitality and the negotiation of subjectivities through meals in the context of migration: Case studies from Belgium
peer reviewed
Arts and Refugees: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (Vol. 2)
Published in 2019, the Special Issue entitled “Arts and Refugees: Multidisciplinary Perspectives” gathered together a set of articles exploring the role of art created and performed by refugees settled in urban European contexts [...]
Is sustainable food inclusive? Reflections from fieldwork in Liège, Belgium
peer reviewed
Political science (12 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Geography (5 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (4 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (4 works) · Social science (4 works)