Dimokritos Kavadias
Biographic Data
| ID | 225907 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dimokritos Kavadias |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dimokritos |
| FAMILY NAME | Kavadias |
| SIGNATURE | KAVADIAS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8506-1288 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Equitable education for migrant students? Investigating the educational success of newly arrived migrants in Flanders
Introduction Previous research has uncovered various inequalities for immigrant students in education systems worldwide. Yet, the degree to which diverse background factors, such as socio-economic status and prior educational trajectory, contribute to these educational disadvantages remains uncertain. Methods Using data from the Flemish administrative database (2009–2019) on 48,340 mainstream students and 1,022 Newly Arrived Migrant Students (NAM…
Être jeunes, musulmans et bruxellois: Impact De La Discrimination Sur Une Identité Ostracisée
En Belgique, comme en France, depuis 1989 et les premières affaires du port du foulard à l’école, il existe un débat public presque constant sur la place de l’islam et des personne de confession musulmane dans la société belge. Dans ce cadre, les jeunes musulmans occupent souvent une forme de survisibilité médiatique en tant que groupe dont l’identité est problématisée dans l’espace public (délinquance, émeutes, terrorisme, non-respect des règles…
"Being "Both: Identifications of Second and Third Generation Brussels Muslim Youths towards the Country of Origin and the Country of Residence
In Belgium, several incidents and public debates have highlighted ethnocentric conceptions of the nation held by public opinion and prominent politicians where immigrants and particularly Muslims are marked as the unwilling "others". In this framework, immigrants maintaining ethnic identities and transnational ties is classically seen as weakening their integration in the receiving countries. Based on results drawn from 16 focus group discussions…
Young Belgian Muslims: Between religious reactivity and individualization
In Belgium, since the first instances of girls wearing headscarves in schools in 1989, the public discussion on the place of Islam and Muslims in Belgian society has been almost constant. That debate has become more polarized in the wake of the attacks of 22 March 2016. The results presented in this paper are drawn from sixteen group discussions and twenty individual semi-structured interviews. We investigate the weight of discrimination processe…
The Effects of Neighborhood and Parental Educational Expectations on Teacher Judgments of Children in the Fifth and Sixth Grades of Primary School
Research has studied less the embeddedness of the relationship between parental educational expectations and teacher judgments in the neighborhood. We use data that were collected in a longitudinal study conducted in Belgium, which focused on children in the fifth and sixth grades of primary school. We found that the effect of neighborhood on teacher judgments is mediated by the nonnative background of students. The effect of neighborhood seems t…
Armed Conflict and Religious Adherence Across Countries: A Time Series Analysis
A fundamental question in the comparative sociology of religion is: What are the drivers of cross-national differences in religiosity? The existential insecurity argument raises the expectation of higher levels of religiosity in contexts of social crisis. We test this argument against countries' armed conflict experiences, employing global longitudinal data on religious adherence over almost half a century. We did not find evidence of religious r…
Measuring and Evaluating the Effectiveness of Active Citizenship Education Programmes to Support Disadvantaged Youth
The current Special Issue has been inspired by the Seventh Annual Conference on Citizenship Education that was held in Roehampton University London, on 26–27 September 2019 [...]
Exclusion and Antisystem Attitudes: The Impact of Perceived Discrimination in Attitudes towards Democracy and the Willingness to Use Violence among Adolescents in Brussels
Perceived discrimination, the perception of systematic exclusion due to background characteristics, has been studied extensively in general. The political consequences of this perception remain underexplored for adolescents. Discrimination may engender a rejection of common political values such as the support for democratic politics. Using the data of 1789 pupils with an average age of 16 years (grade 10) from 24 schools in Brussels, we focus on…
The legacy of country-level experience of armed conflict on emancipative value preferences: A global cross-national study
This study examines the legacies of large-scale armed conflict on emancipative value preferences from 1946 to 2012. The multilevel analysis indicates that people living in countries with past armed conflict are more likely to endorse less emancipative value preferences. The higher the intensity and the longer the duration of the armed conflict episodes experienced in a country, the greater the impact on values. Our evidence further suggests that …
Immigrant students’ educational expectations: The role of religious affiliation and practice
A body of scholarly work has emerged on educational expectations. More recently, the relationship between educational expectations and immigrant background in Western Europe has been investigated. Although the results of this type of inquiry show that students with an immigrant background tend to have higher educational expectations, potential explanations of this relationship remain unarticulated. In this article, we investigate whether religiou…
Fewer local representatives in Brussels? Scenarios and impact
The number of municipal councillors and aldermen in the Brussels-Capital Region is relatively high, and increases at each election. In the debates on the functioning of the political institutions of the Region the idea to reduce the number of local representatives is regularly raised. This contribution explores the possible implications of such a reduction. Three scenarios are examined: a reduction by 10 %, by 20 % and by 30 %. For each of these …
Minder lokale mandatarissen in Brussel? Scenario’s en impact
Het aantal gemeenteraadsleden en schepenen in het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest is relatief hoog, en stijgt bij elke verkiezing. In de debatten over het functioneren van de politieke instellingen van het Gewest wordt regelmatig het idee geopperd om het aantal lokale mandatarissen te verminderen. Deze bijdrage onderzoekt welke de mogelijke implicaties van een dergelijke vermindering zouden zijn. Drie scenario’s worden bekeken: een vermindering me…
Moins de mandataires locaux à Bruxelles ? Scénarios et impact
Le nombre de conseillers communaux et d’échevins dans la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale est relativement élevé et augmente à chaque élection. Au cours des débats sur le fonctionnement des institutions politiques de la Région, l’idée de réduire le nombre de mandataires locaux est régulièrement mise sur la table. La présente contribution étudie les implications possibles d’une telle diminution. Trois scénarios sont envisagés : une diminution de 10 %,…
The Order of Human Interdependencies: Simulating Elias' One-level Multi-person Models
Sociologist Norbert Elias made it his lifework to describe and explain long-term processes. According to Elias, these processes cannot be studied voluntaristically by only focusing on human intentions or motivations. This is because they are the unplanned result of a whole spectrum of interactions of different people over time. According to Elias, these interactions between individuals interweave to produce a development that is relatively autono…
De Brusselse jeugd: Tussen diversiteit en kwetsbaarheid
Deze synthesenota, voorgesteld als een thematische nota, strekt ertoe een portret te maken van zowel de Nederlandstalige als Franstalige Brusselse jongeren van 12 tot 25 jaar aan de hand van een groot aantal diverse gegevens en wetenschappelijke werken die sinds 2005 zijn gepubliceerd. De complexe situatie op het vlak van de instellingen en het gebruik van de talen, die zowel de Brusselse context als de onderzoeken kenmerkt, vereist een dergelijk…
Brussels youth: Between diversity and lack of security
Presented in a thematic manner, the aim of this synopsis is to paint a picture of French- and Dutch-speaking Brussels youth between the ages of 12 and 25, based on a great diversity of data and academic research published since 2005. The institutional and linguistic complexity which characterises the situation in Brussels and the production of research makes this type of exercise absolutely necessary. This inventory of knowledge regarding youth i…
Jeunesses bruxelloises: Entre diversité et précarité
Présentée de façon thématique, cette note de synthèse a pour objectif de dresser un portrait des jeunes bruxellois, tant francophones que néerlandophones, de 12 à 25 ans à partir d’une grande diversité de données et recherches scientifiques publiées depuis 2005. La complexité institutionnelle et linguistique caractérisant à la fois le contexte bruxellois et la production des recherches rend ce type d’exercice tout à fait nécessaire. Cet état des …
Drawing Belgium: Using Mental Maps to Measure Territorial Conflict
Governing divided Belgium is not an easy affair. Traditional tools of political research have provided insights about the dynamics of Belgian federalism but they have fallen short in exploring the territorial dimension of the conflict and its political representations within the population. Mental maps, scarcely used hitherto by political scientists, offer an innovative research tool to dig into territorial conflict dynamics since they aim at cap…
The Acceptance of the Multicultural Society Among Young People. A Comparative Analysis of the Effect of Market-Driven Versus Publicly Regulated Educational Systems
This paper examines the impact of private, quasi-market versus public steering of educational systems on European youngsters ’ attitudes towards immigrants. There has recently been a drive for a quasi-market strategy in the provision of education, inspired by the hope that this will increase both quality and cost-effectiveness. However, research has shown that this policy leads to greater inequality between schools and individual pupils. In this …
Evaluation as learning: The collaboration between social work and research in cross-agency evaluation in Germany and Slovenia
The current contribution focuses on evaluation research as a process of learning and development for practice, by looking at conditions of collaboration between practice and research in two examples. We exemplify that learning from evaluation in complex programme settings is related to the nature of the collaboration between social work agencies and researchers. Findings are based on two similar cases of evaluation research for interagency collab…
Exclusion and Antisystem Attitudes: The Impact of Perceived Discrimination in Attitudes towards Democracy and the Willingness to Use Violence among Adolescents in Brussels
Perceived discrimination, the perception of systematic exclusion due to background characteristics, has been studied extensively in general. The political consequences of this perception remain underexplored for adolescents. Discrimination may engender a rejection of common political values such as the support for democratic politics. Using the data of 1789 pupils with an average age of 16 years (grade 10) from 24 schools in Brussels, we focus on…
Drawing Belgium: Using Mental Maps to Measure Territorial Conflict
Governing divided Belgium is not an easy affair. Traditional tools of political research have provided insights about the dynamics of Belgian federalism but they have fallen short in exploring the territorial dimension of the conflict and its political representations within the population. Mental maps, scarcely used hitherto by political scientists, offer an innovative research tool to dig into territorial conflict dynamics since they aim at cap…
"Being "Both: Identifications of Second and Third Generation Brussels Muslim Youths towards the Country of Origin and the Country of Residence
In Belgium, several incidents and public debates have highlighted ethnocentric conceptions of the nation held by public opinion and prominent politicians where immigrants and particularly Muslims are marked as the unwilling "others". In this framework, immigrants maintaining ethnic identities and transnational ties is classically seen as weakening their integration in the receiving countries. Based on results drawn from 16 focus group discussions…
The legacy of country-level experience of armed conflict on emancipative value preferences: A global cross-national study
This study examines the legacies of large-scale armed conflict on emancipative value preferences from 1946 to 2012. The multilevel analysis indicates that people living in countries with past armed conflict are more likely to endorse less emancipative value preferences. The higher the intensity and the longer the duration of the armed conflict episodes experienced in a country, the greater the impact on values. Our evidence further suggests that …
Armed Conflict and Religious Adherence Across Countries: A Time Series Analysis
A fundamental question in the comparative sociology of religion is: What are the drivers of cross-national differences in religiosity? The existential insecurity argument raises the expectation of higher levels of religiosity in contexts of social crisis. We test this argument against countries' armed conflict experiences, employing global longitudinal data on religious adherence over almost half a century. We did not find evidence of religious r…
Evaluation as learning: The collaboration between social work and research in cross-agency evaluation in Germany and Slovenia
The current contribution focuses on evaluation research as a process of learning and development for practice, by looking at conditions of collaboration between practice and research in two examples. We exemplify that learning from evaluation in complex programme settings is related to the nature of the collaboration between social work agencies and researchers. Findings are based on two similar cases of evaluation research for interagency collab…
Drawing Belgium: Using Mental Maps to Measure Territorial Conflict
Governing divided Belgium is not an easy affair. Traditional tools of political research have provided insights about the dynamics of Belgian federalism but they have fallen short in exploring the territorial dimension of the conflict and its political representations within the population. Mental maps, scarcely used hitherto by political scientists, offer an innovative research tool to dig into territorial conflict dynamics since they aim at cap…
The Acceptance of the Multicultural Society Among Young People. A Comparative Analysis of the Effect of Market-Driven Versus Publicly Regulated Educational Systems
This paper examines the impact of private, quasi-market versus public steering of educational systems on European youngsters ’ attitudes towards immigrants. There has recently been a drive for a quasi-market strategy in the provision of education, inspired by the hope that this will increase both quality and cost-effectiveness. However, research has shown that this policy leads to greater inequality between schools and individual pupils. In this …
De Brusselse jeugd: Tussen diversiteit en kwetsbaarheid
Deze synthesenota, voorgesteld als een thematische nota, strekt ertoe een portret te maken van zowel de Nederlandstalige als Franstalige Brusselse jongeren van 12 tot 25 jaar aan de hand van een groot aantal diverse gegevens en wetenschappelijke werken die sinds 2005 zijn gepubliceerd. De complexe situatie op het vlak van de instellingen en het gebruik van de talen, die zowel de Brusselse context als de onderzoeken kenmerkt, vereist een dergelijk…
Brussels youth: Between diversity and lack of security
Presented in a thematic manner, the aim of this synopsis is to paint a picture of French- and Dutch-speaking Brussels youth between the ages of 12 and 25, based on a great diversity of data and academic research published since 2005. The institutional and linguistic complexity which characterises the situation in Brussels and the production of research makes this type of exercise absolutely necessary. This inventory of knowledge regarding youth i…
Jeunesses bruxelloises: Entre diversité et précarité
Présentée de façon thématique, cette note de synthèse a pour objectif de dresser un portrait des jeunes bruxellois, tant francophones que néerlandophones, de 12 à 25 ans à partir d’une grande diversité de données et recherches scientifiques publiées depuis 2005. La complexité institutionnelle et linguistique caractérisant à la fois le contexte bruxellois et la production des recherches rend ce type d’exercice tout à fait nécessaire. Cet état des …
The Order of Human Interdependencies: Simulating Elias' One-level Multi-person Models
Sociologist Norbert Elias made it his lifework to describe and explain long-term processes. According to Elias, these processes cannot be studied voluntaristically by only focusing on human intentions or motivations. This is because they are the unplanned result of a whole spectrum of interactions of different people over time. According to Elias, these interactions between individuals interweave to produce a development that is relatively autono…
Immigrant students’ educational expectations: The role of religious affiliation and practice
A body of scholarly work has emerged on educational expectations. More recently, the relationship between educational expectations and immigrant background in Western Europe has been investigated. Although the results of this type of inquiry show that students with an immigrant background tend to have higher educational expectations, potential explanations of this relationship remain unarticulated. In this article, we investigate whether religiou…
Fewer local representatives in Brussels? Scenarios and impact
The number of municipal councillors and aldermen in the Brussels-Capital Region is relatively high, and increases at each election. In the debates on the functioning of the political institutions of the Region the idea to reduce the number of local representatives is regularly raised. This contribution explores the possible implications of such a reduction. Three scenarios are examined: a reduction by 10 %, by 20 % and by 30 %. For each of these …
Minder lokale mandatarissen in Brussel? Scenario’s en impact
Het aantal gemeenteraadsleden en schepenen in het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest is relatief hoog, en stijgt bij elke verkiezing. In de debatten over het functioneren van de politieke instellingen van het Gewest wordt regelmatig het idee geopperd om het aantal lokale mandatarissen te verminderen. Deze bijdrage onderzoekt welke de mogelijke implicaties van een dergelijke vermindering zouden zijn. Drie scenario’s worden bekeken: een vermindering me…
Moins de mandataires locaux à Bruxelles ? Scénarios et impact
Le nombre de conseillers communaux et d’échevins dans la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale est relativement élevé et augmente à chaque élection. Au cours des débats sur le fonctionnement des institutions politiques de la Région, l’idée de réduire le nombre de mandataires locaux est régulièrement mise sur la table. La présente contribution étudie les implications possibles d’une telle diminution. Trois scénarios sont envisagés : une diminution de 10 %,…
The legacy of country-level experience of armed conflict on emancipative value preferences: A global cross-national study
This study examines the legacies of large-scale armed conflict on emancipative value preferences from 1946 to 2012. The multilevel analysis indicates that people living in countries with past armed conflict are more likely to endorse less emancipative value preferences. The higher the intensity and the longer the duration of the armed conflict episodes experienced in a country, the greater the impact on values. Our evidence further suggests that …
Exclusion and Antisystem Attitudes: The Impact of Perceived Discrimination in Attitudes towards Democracy and the Willingness to Use Violence among Adolescents in Brussels
Perceived discrimination, the perception of systematic exclusion due to background characteristics, has been studied extensively in general. The political consequences of this perception remain underexplored for adolescents. Discrimination may engender a rejection of common political values such as the support for democratic politics. Using the data of 1789 pupils with an average age of 16 years (grade 10) from 24 schools in Brussels, we focus on…
Measuring and Evaluating the Effectiveness of Active Citizenship Education Programmes to Support Disadvantaged Youth
The current Special Issue has been inspired by the Seventh Annual Conference on Citizenship Education that was held in Roehampton University London, on 26–27 September 2019 [...]
Young Belgian Muslims: Between religious reactivity and individualization
In Belgium, since the first instances of girls wearing headscarves in schools in 1989, the public discussion on the place of Islam and Muslims in Belgian society has been almost constant. That debate has become more polarized in the wake of the attacks of 22 March 2016. The results presented in this paper are drawn from sixteen group discussions and twenty individual semi-structured interviews. We investigate the weight of discrimination processe…
The Effects of Neighborhood and Parental Educational Expectations on Teacher Judgments of Children in the Fifth and Sixth Grades of Primary School
Research has studied less the embeddedness of the relationship between parental educational expectations and teacher judgments in the neighborhood. We use data that were collected in a longitudinal study conducted in Belgium, which focused on children in the fifth and sixth grades of primary school. We found that the effect of neighborhood on teacher judgments is mediated by the nonnative background of students. The effect of neighborhood seems t…
Armed Conflict and Religious Adherence Across Countries: A Time Series Analysis
A fundamental question in the comparative sociology of religion is: What are the drivers of cross-national differences in religiosity? The existential insecurity argument raises the expectation of higher levels of religiosity in contexts of social crisis. We test this argument against countries' armed conflict experiences, employing global longitudinal data on religious adherence over almost half a century. We did not find evidence of religious r…
Être jeunes, musulmans et bruxellois: Impact De La Discrimination Sur Une Identité Ostracisée
En Belgique, comme en France, depuis 1989 et les premières affaires du port du foulard à l’école, il existe un débat public presque constant sur la place de l’islam et des personne de confession musulmane dans la société belge. Dans ce cadre, les jeunes musulmans occupent souvent une forme de survisibilité médiatique en tant que groupe dont l’identité est problématisée dans l’espace public (délinquance, émeutes, terrorisme, non-respect des règles…
"Being "Both: Identifications of Second and Third Generation Brussels Muslim Youths towards the Country of Origin and the Country of Residence
In Belgium, several incidents and public debates have highlighted ethnocentric conceptions of the nation held by public opinion and prominent politicians where immigrants and particularly Muslims are marked as the unwilling "others". In this framework, immigrants maintaining ethnic identities and transnational ties is classically seen as weakening their integration in the receiving countries. Based on results drawn from 16 focus group discussions…
Equitable education for migrant students? Investigating the educational success of newly arrived migrants in Flanders
Introduction Previous research has uncovered various inequalities for immigrant students in education systems worldwide. Yet, the degree to which diverse background factors, such as socio-economic status and prior educational trajectory, contribute to these educational disadvantages remains uncertain. Methods Using data from the Flemish administrative database (2009–2019) on 48,340 mainstream students and 1,022 Newly Arrived Migrant Students (NAM…
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Humanities (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (5 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (4 works) · Geography (4 works)