Kaat Van Acker
Biographic Data
| ID | 2925920 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kaat Van Acker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kaat |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Acker |
| SIGNATURE | VAN ACKER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9865-6037 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 133 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Isomorphism between refugee families and social workers: A socio-spatial and temporal perspective on social work in asylum centres in Belgium
sponsorship: This project was funded by the European Fund for Asylum, Migration and Integration (AMIF 45-04) and co-financed by the Centre for Family Studies of Odisee University of Applied Sciences, Belgium. (Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund|AMIF 45-04, European Fund, Centre for Family Studies of Odisee University of Applied Sciences, Belgium)
On the reconstruction of family life and ‘institutional forms of parentification: Unaccompanied minors’ experiences with family reunification in Belgium and Norway
Sharing is caring: A micro-level analysis of domestic hospitality for displaced Ukrainians in Belgium and Switzerland
To lodge displaced people from Ukraine, national authorities in Europe turned to homestay accommodation to expand reception capacity. This paper adopts a micro-level approach to examine the experiences of local hosts in Belgium and Switzerland using a sequential explanatory mixed-methods design. Quantitative analysis of 754 survey responses revealed both positive experiences and key challenges, including difficulties with rule-making, intercultur…
Holding hope and mastering the possible: Mapping resilient moves of asylum-seeking and refugee families post arrival
Using in-depth interviews, this paper examines the performance of resilient practices by 17 asylum-seeking and refugee families (27 parents, 35 children) living in Belgium, and the ways in which such practices have been facilitated by social professionals (22) in various types of relationships to these families. Different from much research that studies how resilience can be ‘found’ through predictable relationships between pre-identified variabl…
Resilience in liminality: How resilient moves are being negotiated by asylum-seeking families in the liminal context of asylum procedures
By elaborating on the concept of ‘resilient moves’, we try to show how resilience in the case of asylum-seeking families living in open, collective reception centres exists in a complicated relationship with vulnerability and is very much a matter of local negotiation rather than mere adaptation in the face of adversity. Building upon consecutive waves of resilience research, this approach inspired by practice theory focuses on the agency of acts…
Ethnicity and Migration in Europe
Do “they” threaten “us” or do “we” disrespect “them”: Majority perceptions of intergroup relations and everyday contacts with immigrant minorities
The present study examined how majority perceptions of intergroup relations afford different contact experiences with immigrant minorities. Majority students attending culturally diverse high schools first completed a survey that measured the extent to which they perceived immigrant minorities as either threatening to the majority or discriminated by the majority. Two weeks later, the same majority students kept a 1-week diary of their contacts w…
They are all the same”: Low perceived typicality and outgroup disapproval as buffers of intergroup threat in mass media
Beyond the Ethnic‐Civic Dichotomy: Cultural Citizenship as a New Way of Excluding Immigrants
In European Union (EU) countries, public debates about immigrants and citizenship are increasingly framed in cultural terms. Yet, there is no agreement within the citizenship literature on whether a cultural citizenship representation can be distinguished from the more established ethnic and civic representations and on how its measures relate to anti‐immigrant attitudes. The present study tested measures of citizenship representations among high…
What I infer depends on who you are: The influence of stereotypes on trait and situational spontaneous inferences
Heritage culture maintenance precludes host culture adoption and vice versa: Flemings’ perceptions of Turks’ acculturation behavior
A prevalent concern with the integration of Turkish minorities is that large cultural differences hinder integration. Many majority members doubt that Turkish minority members can combine host culture adoption and heritage culture maintenance, although research has shown that most Turkish minority members experience no conflict between these orientations. The present study investigates experimentally whether majority group members perceive Turkis…
Bringing together acculturation theory and intergroup contact theory: Predictors of Flemings’ expectations of Turks’ acculturation behavior
The present paper explores Flemish majority members’ expectations concerning the acculturation of Turkish minorities. We studied two kinds of antecedents: majority members’ perceptions of Turkish minorities’ acculturation behavior and their experiences of intergroup contact. The possible mediating role of outgroup affect was also investigated. 247 Flemish high school students completed a survey. Data were analyzed using path analyses. Results sho…
Beyond the Ethnic‐Civic Dichotomy: Cultural Citizenship as a New Way of Excluding Immigrants
In European Union (EU) countries, public debates about immigrants and citizenship are increasingly framed in cultural terms. Yet, there is no agreement within the citizenship literature on whether a cultural citizenship representation can be distinguished from the more established ethnic and civic representations and on how its measures relate to anti‐immigrant attitudes. The present study tested measures of citizenship representations among high…
Bringing together acculturation theory and intergroup contact theory: Predictors of Flemings’ expectations of Turks’ acculturation behavior
The present paper explores Flemish majority members’ expectations concerning the acculturation of Turkish minorities. We studied two kinds of antecedents: majority members’ perceptions of Turkish minorities’ acculturation behavior and their experiences of intergroup contact. The possible mediating role of outgroup affect was also investigated. 247 Flemish high school students completed a survey. Data were analyzed using path analyses. Results sho…
Heritage culture maintenance precludes host culture adoption and vice versa: Flemings’ perceptions of Turks’ acculturation behavior
A prevalent concern with the integration of Turkish minorities is that large cultural differences hinder integration. Many majority members doubt that Turkish minority members can combine host culture adoption and heritage culture maintenance, although research has shown that most Turkish minority members experience no conflict between these orientations. The present study investigates experimentally whether majority group members perceive Turkis…
Do “they” threaten “us” or do “we” disrespect “them”: Majority perceptions of intergroup relations and everyday contacts with immigrant minorities
The present study examined how majority perceptions of intergroup relations afford different contact experiences with immigrant minorities. Majority students attending culturally diverse high schools first completed a survey that measured the extent to which they perceived immigrant minorities as either threatening to the majority or discriminated by the majority. Two weeks later, the same majority students kept a 1-week diary of their contacts w…
They are all the same”: Low perceived typicality and outgroup disapproval as buffers of intergroup threat in mass media
What I infer depends on who you are: The influence of stereotypes on trait and situational spontaneous inferences
Holding hope and mastering the possible: Mapping resilient moves of asylum-seeking and refugee families post arrival
Using in-depth interviews, this paper examines the performance of resilient practices by 17 asylum-seeking and refugee families (27 parents, 35 children) living in Belgium, and the ways in which such practices have been facilitated by social professionals (22) in various types of relationships to these families. Different from much research that studies how resilience can be ‘found’ through predictable relationships between pre-identified variabl…
Resilience in liminality: How resilient moves are being negotiated by asylum-seeking families in the liminal context of asylum procedures
By elaborating on the concept of ‘resilient moves’, we try to show how resilience in the case of asylum-seeking families living in open, collective reception centres exists in a complicated relationship with vulnerability and is very much a matter of local negotiation rather than mere adaptation in the face of adversity. Building upon consecutive waves of resilience research, this approach inspired by practice theory focuses on the agency of acts…
On the reconstruction of family life and ‘institutional forms of parentification: Unaccompanied minors’ experiences with family reunification in Belgium and Norway
Heritage culture maintenance precludes host culture adoption and vice versa: Flemings’ perceptions of Turks’ acculturation behavior
A prevalent concern with the integration of Turkish minorities is that large cultural differences hinder integration. Many majority members doubt that Turkish minority members can combine host culture adoption and heritage culture maintenance, although research has shown that most Turkish minority members experience no conflict between these orientations. The present study investigates experimentally whether majority group members perceive Turkis…
Bringing together acculturation theory and intergroup contact theory: Predictors of Flemings’ expectations of Turks’ acculturation behavior
The present paper explores Flemish majority members’ expectations concerning the acculturation of Turkish minorities. We studied two kinds of antecedents: majority members’ perceptions of Turkish minorities’ acculturation behavior and their experiences of intergroup contact. The possible mediating role of outgroup affect was also investigated. 247 Flemish high school students completed a survey. Data were analyzed using path analyses. Results sho…
What I infer depends on who you are: The influence of stereotypes on trait and situational spontaneous inferences
They are all the same”: Low perceived typicality and outgroup disapproval as buffers of intergroup threat in mass media
Beyond the Ethnic‐Civic Dichotomy: Cultural Citizenship as a New Way of Excluding Immigrants
In European Union (EU) countries, public debates about immigrants and citizenship are increasingly framed in cultural terms. Yet, there is no agreement within the citizenship literature on whether a cultural citizenship representation can be distinguished from the more established ethnic and civic representations and on how its measures relate to anti‐immigrant attitudes. The present study tested measures of citizenship representations among high…
Do “they” threaten “us” or do “we” disrespect “them”: Majority perceptions of intergroup relations and everyday contacts with immigrant minorities
The present study examined how majority perceptions of intergroup relations afford different contact experiences with immigrant minorities. Majority students attending culturally diverse high schools first completed a survey that measured the extent to which they perceived immigrant minorities as either threatening to the majority or discriminated by the majority. Two weeks later, the same majority students kept a 1-week diary of their contacts w…
Ethnicity and Migration in Europe
Resilience in liminality: How resilient moves are being negotiated by asylum-seeking families in the liminal context of asylum procedures
By elaborating on the concept of ‘resilient moves’, we try to show how resilience in the case of asylum-seeking families living in open, collective reception centres exists in a complicated relationship with vulnerability and is very much a matter of local negotiation rather than mere adaptation in the face of adversity. Building upon consecutive waves of resilience research, this approach inspired by practice theory focuses on the agency of acts…
Holding hope and mastering the possible: Mapping resilient moves of asylum-seeking and refugee families post arrival
Using in-depth interviews, this paper examines the performance of resilient practices by 17 asylum-seeking and refugee families (27 parents, 35 children) living in Belgium, and the ways in which such practices have been facilitated by social professionals (22) in various types of relationships to these families. Different from much research that studies how resilience can be ‘found’ through predictable relationships between pre-identified variabl…
Isomorphism between refugee families and social workers: A socio-spatial and temporal perspective on social work in asylum centres in Belgium
sponsorship: This project was funded by the European Fund for Asylum, Migration and Integration (AMIF 45-04) and co-financed by the Centre for Family Studies of Odisee University of Applied Sciences, Belgium. (Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund|AMIF 45-04, European Fund, Centre for Family Studies of Odisee University of Applied Sciences, Belgium)
On the reconstruction of family life and ‘institutional forms of parentification: Unaccompanied minors’ experiences with family reunification in Belgium and Norway
Sharing is caring: A micro-level analysis of domestic hospitality for displaced Ukrainians in Belgium and Switzerland
To lodge displaced people from Ukraine, national authorities in Europe turned to homestay accommodation to expand reception capacity. This paper adopts a micro-level approach to examine the experiences of local hosts in Belgium and Switzerland using a sequential explanatory mixed-methods design. Quantitative analysis of 754 survey responses revealed both positive experiences and key challenges, including difficulties with rule-making, intercultur…
Psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (6 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Immigration (4 works) · Law (4 works)