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ID3638889
NAMEJohan Leman
GIVEN NAMESJohan
FAMILY NAMELeman
SIGNATURELEMAN J
AFFILIATIONSKU Leuven
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS27
TOTAL CITATIONS40
AUTHOR COUNT27
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1979
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX4
  • Bibliographie sélective

    Abdoulaye Adamou, Allassane Dicko et al.•ARTICLE•Migrations Société•2023

    notamment par photocopie, n'est autorisée que dans les limites des conditions générales d'utilisation du site ou, le cas échéant, des conditions générales de la licence souscrite par votre établissement

  • Militant Jihadism

    Open Access•Serafettin Pekta, Serafettin Pektas et al.•BOOK•Militant Jihadism•2019

    Jihadist militants keep being a global threat. Many observers suggest that a transformation is likely to happen in their organisation, operation, mobilisation, and recruitment strategies, particularly after the territorial decline of the “Caliphate” of the “Islamic State.” This volume explores different aspects of the future trajectories of militant jihadism and the prospective transformation of this movement in and around Europe. The authors ana…

  • Militant Jihadism: Today and Tomorrow

    Open Access•Serafettin Pektas, Johan Leman•BOOK•Militant Jihadism•2019

    "Jihadist militants keep being a global threat. Many observers suggest that a transformation is likely to happen in their organisation, operation, mobilisation, and recruitment strategies, particularly after the territorial decline of the ?Caliphate? of the ?Islamic State.? This volume explores different aspects of the future trajectories of militant jihadism and the prospective transformation of this movement in and around Europe. The authors an…

  • Human Smuggling on Europe’s Eastern Balkan and Eastern Borders Routes

    Open Access•Johan Leman, Stef Janssens et al.•ARTICLE•Migracijske i etničke teme /…•2018

    The authors propose an analysis of the developments in migrants' smuggling (and indirectly also in transit migrations) on the Eastern Balkan (Bulgaria-Romania) and Eastern Borders (Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus) routes from around 2015. For some transit migrants (and migrants' smugglers), with the severe controls on the Western Balkan route and after the EU-Turkey deal of April 2016, the new routes, each with its own already decennia-long smuggling t…

  • Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling in Southeast Europe and Russia: Learning Criminal Entrepreneurship and Traditional Culture

    Open Access•Johan Leman, Stef Janssens•BOOK•Human Trafficking and Migrant…•2015

    Through unprecedented access to over 100 court files and sentences, and interviews with police and security personnel in both origin and destination countries, this book provides the most comprehensiv

  • Creative Adaptive Criminal Entrepreneurs from Africa and Human Trafficking in Belgium: Case Studies of Traffickers from Nigeria and Morocco

    Open Access•Johan Leman, Stefan Janssens•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2013•Cited by: 1•References: 4

    The article is based on 48 Belgian judicial files (27 Nigerian and 21 Moroccan ones), that concern the practices that created victims of human trafficking from Nigeria and Morocco in Belgium and some neighbouring countries. We discover that the most efficient criminal entrepreneurs are the very flexible ones, who continuously adapt, learn, dare to diversify, and sometimes also to internationalize (but mostly with African partners). An important d…

  • Albanian Entrepreneurial Practices in Human Smuggling and Trafficking: On the Road to the United Kingdom via Brussels, 1995–2005

    Open Access•Johan Leman, Stef Janssens•ARTICLE•International Migration•2011•Cited by: 4•References: 4

    The authors studied the entrepreneurial culture among Albanian smugglers and traffickers using 43 Albanian judicial files in Belgium from 1995–2005. They analyse the niches that these “entrepreneurs” created as well as the way they invested profits. The authors also analyse the personal agency of the smuggled and trafficked clients, and practices that may help to explain the specific entrepreneurial culture. Short comparisons are made with other …

  • Ethnic Dimensions in the Discourse and Identity Strategies of European Converts to Islam in Andalusia and Flanders

    Johan Leman, Christiane Stallaert et al.•ARTICLE•New Community•2010•Cited by: 2•References: 3

    This paper analyzes, from a comparative point of view, the ethnic dimensions in both the (public) discourse and identity strategies of European converts to Islam. In order to highlight the very different conditions European neo-Muslims face when adopting an ethnicizing discourse and/or strategies, two divergent settings for study have been selected. We will present some data on Andalusia (Spain), where in the aftermath of Francoism, some Spanish …

  • Conduct’ and ‘Counter-conduct’ on the Southern Border of Turkey: Multicultural Antakya

    Fulya Doğruel, Johan Leman•ARTICLE•Middle Eastern Studies•2009•Cited by: 5

    Why is Antakya so different, especially in the Turkish context? A 'Foucauldian' analysis of the diachronically composed multiculturalism of a Turkish city at the border with Syria, with focus on the Sunni Turkish majority community and the three major minorities, that have Arabic as their language of provenance. The historical-anthropological approach includes the important steps of Turkey's 20th Century history

  • Kinship and Shifting Intra-Family Focalism among the Italo-Brussels Jehovah's Witnesses

    Open Access•Johan Leman•ARTICLE•Social Compass•2008

    The author reports on the observation of the communities of Italo-Brussels Jehovah's Witnesses over a 30-year period (research in 1976, 1996 and 2005). In the 1970s, “conversion” as the means of entry into a new religious community was dominant as a theme in the Kingdom Halls. Thirty years later, it is recruitment through kin and the “vécu” of kinship relations inside the religious enclaves which has become the main objective of these communities…

  • Migration Related Socio-cultural Changes and e-Learning in a European Globalising Society

    Open Access•Johan Leman, Ann Trappers et al.•ARTICLE•Studies in Philosophy and Education•2008•Cited by: 1•References: 7

  • The Process of Growth in Krishna Consciousness and Sacredness in Belgium

    Johan Leman, Hannelore Roos•ARTICLE•Journal of Contemporary Religion•2007•References: 3

    The article focuses on the Hare Krishna members in Belgium. Fieldwork was carried out among the 'temple residents' at Radhadesh, those who live in its vicinity, the 'congregationalists' in the local centres, and those who are on the way of being initiated. The articles focuses on the development members undergo from 'adepts' to 'devotees', that is from 'congregationalists' to becoming full-time 'temple residents' in Radhadesh. The question we add…

  • A “Lucan Effect” in the Commitment of Iranian Converts in Transit. The case of the Pentecostal Iranian Enclave in Istanbul

    Open Access•Johan Leman•ARTICLE•Revue des mondes musulmans et de…•2007•Cited by: 2•References: 9

    Conversions are not uncommon among transit migrants towards the West. Christian churches, above all Pentecostalism, act as enclaves, also in Islamic countries. They offer a foothold and prospects for the future, in brief: hope. The newcomer grows towards a rebirth. Given that, fundamentally, both the transit migrant and the religious community are transnationally oriented, the convert ultimately discovers a new continuity between past, present an…

  • The Various 'Safe'-House Profiles in East-European Human Smuggling and Trafficking

    Johan Leman, Stef Janssen et al.•ARTICLE•New Community•2007•Cited by: 2•References: 3

    In examining the activities of eight networks involved in human smuggling and/or trafficking from Eastern Europe to Belgium, we focus on the function of the ‘safe’ houses they use. We compare our findings with those reported in the existing literature on safe houses, which mainly looks at Chinese human smuggling networks. The differences relate to trafficking for the purpose of female prostitution, to smuggling practices directly associated with …

  • Cosmological and Religious Fundamentals among Igbo Immigrants in Belgium: The Way Out of Segregation

    Open Access•Sebastian Okechukwu Onah, Johan Leman•ARTICLE•Social Compass•2005

    In a society such as Belgium, most Igbo migrants of the 1990s soon became immigrants without papers. It was only after regularization campaigns (as in January 2000 in Belgium) that a significant number of them could be regularized to stay. This means that most of them had a very diffcult time in the first years of their stay in Europe. This can best be described as a situation of anonymous liminality. That is the moment when Christianity and thei…

  • The Dynamics of Emerging Ethnicities: Immigrant and Indigenous Ethnogenesis in Confrontation

    Johan Leman•BOOK•The Dynamics of Emerging…•2001

  • Minority leadership, science, symbols, and the media: The Belgian Islam debate and its relevance for other countries in Europe

    Open Access•Johan Leman•ARTICLE•Journal of International…•2000

  • Religions, modulators in Pluri‐ethnic cities: An anthropological analysis of the relative shift from ethnic to supra‐ethnic and meta‐ethnic faith communities in Brussels

    Johan Leman•ARTICLE•Journal of Contemporary Religion•1999•Cited by: 4•References: 5

    Anthropological analysis of how and to what extent socio‐ethnic shifts take place in a pluri‐ethnic urban setting reveals that the process occurs from a situation of group‐clustering on the basis of ethnicity to a situation of ethnicity that is absorbed and sometimes left behind in faith communities. Situations are identified of social and religious‐cultural bridging to the region of origin, but also of socio‐cultural integration, supra‐ and meta…

  • Highly-qualified Iranian immigrants in Germany: The role of ethnicity and culture

    Sigrid Bafekr, Johan Leman•ARTICLE•New Community•1999•Cited by: 2•References: 7

    In parallel with their fellow countrymen and women in the USA and France, Iranians resident in Germany, and in particular the group of intellectuals whom we are discussing here, have founded various cultural associations. They meet each other regularly at scientific‐cultural events. The following description is the result of participation at these meetings and of numerous discussions and interviews held with the individuals involved between 1994 …

  • The Italo-Brussels Jehovah's Witnesses Revisited: From First-generation Religious Fundamentalism to Ethno-religious Community Formation

    Open Access•Johan Leman•ARTICLE•Social Compass•1998

    In 1976 a survey was conducted among two Italo-Brussels congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses and the results compared with a number of autochthonous Dutch-speaking and French-speaking control groups. Towards the end of 1996 the author put the same questionnaire to the same two Italo-Brussels congregations as part of a wider survey about allochthonous religious and social networks in Brussels. The results show how the Italo-Brussels community of J…

  • School as a Socialising and Corrective Force in Inter-Ethnic Urban Relations

    Johan Leman•ARTICLE•Journal of Multilingual and…•1997•Cited by: 1

    Brussels is a multicultural setting, with a predominantly French street image, in which the employment market imposes multilingualism (French and Dutch) as the norm. The Brussels capital regy and geographically oriented towards Flanders. Within the Dutch-language education system in Brussels, a socio-pedagogical centre called Foyer is seeking to provide a bicultural and trilinguam that does justice to this bilingual reality and also to the origin…

  • Undocumented migrants in Brussels: Diversity and the anthropology of illegality

    Johan Leman•ARTICLE•New Community•1997•Cited by: 5•References: 2

    This article reveals undocumented migrants to be highly heterogeneous in terms of their origins, the way in which they enter the country, their work and the structure of their family life. This is demonstrated by examining the situation in Brussels in the first half of the 1990s. A distinction is drawn between forms of 'migrant residence illegality' and 'migrant employment illegality'. The context is set with the help of a brief outline of the si…

  • William Boddy, Fifties Television: The Industry and Its Critics; Mary Ann Watson, The Expanding Vista: American Television in the Kennedy Years

    Johan Leman•ARTICLE•Screen•1992

    William Boddy, Fifties Television: The Industry and Its Critics; Mary Ann Watson, The Expanding Vista: American Television in the Kennedy Years Get access William Boddy, Fifties Television: The Industry and Its Critics. Urbana and Chicago: University of Lllinois Press, 1990, 297pp. Mary Ann Watson, The Expanding Vista: American Television in the Kennedy Years. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990, 273pp. Joy Leman Joy Leman Search for other wo…

  • The Education of Immigrant Children in Belgium

    Open Access•Johan Leman•ARTICLE•Anthropology & Education Quarterly•1991•Cited by: 5•References: 1

    This article examines the Flemish and French educational communities in Belgium, notes some characteristics of the largest minority groups in Belgium (the Italians, Moroccans, Turks, and Spaniards), and reviews some issues related to educational performance of minority students. The article concludes with a discussion of changes in Belgian educational policies for the children of minorities

  • From Challenging Culture to Challenged Nature: The Sicilian Cultural Code and the Socio-Cultural Praxis of Sicilian Immigrants in Belgium

    Emiliana P Noether, Johan Leman•ARTICLE•International Migration Review•1989

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  • Jehovah's Witnesses and Immigration in Continental Western Europe

    Open Access•Johan Leman•ARTICLE•Social Compass•1979•Cited by: 6

    Face à sa situation de transplanté, l'immigré peut s'orienter de diverses manières : se replier sur son passé ; vivre dans le présent (avec le risque du mimétisme et du conformisme) ; s'orienter vers un avenir précis. A partir d'une recherche empirique menée parmi les Témoins de Jéhovah immigrés et autochtones en Belgique, l'Auteur cherche à expliquer le pourquoi de l'adhésion croissante des migrants à ce mouvement religieux. Sa thèse consiste à …

  • Conduct’ and ‘Counter-conduct’ on the Southern Border of Turkey: Multicultural Antakya

    Fulya Doğruel, Johan Leman•ARTICLE•Middle Eastern Studies•2009•Cited by: 5

    Why is Antakya so different, especially in the Turkish context? A 'Foucauldian' analysis of the diachronically composed multiculturalism of a Turkish city at the border with Syria, with focus on the Sunni Turkish majority community and the three major minorities, that have Arabic as their language of provenance. The historical-anthropological approach includes the important steps of Turkey's 20th Century history

  • Undocumented migrants in Brussels: Diversity and the anthropology of illegality

    Johan Leman•ARTICLE•New Community•1997•Cited by: 5•References: 2

    This article reveals undocumented migrants to be highly heterogeneous in terms of their origins, the way in which they enter the country, their work and the structure of their family life. This is demonstrated by examining the situation in Brussels in the first half of the 1990s. A distinction is drawn between forms of 'migrant residence illegality' and 'migrant employment illegality'. The context is set with the help of a brief outline of the si…

  • The Education of Immigrant Children in Belgium

    Open Access•Johan Leman•ARTICLE•Anthropology & Education Quarterly•1991•Cited by: 5•References: 1

    This article examines the Flemish and French educational communities in Belgium, notes some characteristics of the largest minority groups in Belgium (the Italians, Moroccans, Turks, and Spaniards), and reviews some issues related to educational performance of minority students. The article concludes with a discussion of changes in Belgian educational policies for the children of minorities

  • Albanian Entrepreneurial Practices in Human Smuggling and Trafficking: On the Road to the United Kingdom via Brussels, 1995–2005

    Open Access•Johan Leman, Stef Janssens•ARTICLE•International Migration•2011•Cited by: 4•References: 4

    The authors studied the entrepreneurial culture among Albanian smugglers and traffickers using 43 Albanian judicial files in Belgium from 1995–2005. They analyse the niches that these “entrepreneurs” created as well as the way they invested profits. The authors also analyse the personal agency of the smuggled and trafficked clients, and practices that may help to explain the specific entrepreneurial culture. Short comparisons are made with other …

  • Religions, modulators in Pluri‐ethnic cities: An anthropological analysis of the relative shift from ethnic to supra‐ethnic and meta‐ethnic faith communities in Brussels

    Johan Leman•ARTICLE•Journal of Contemporary Religion•1999•Cited by: 4•References: 5

    Anthropological analysis of how and to what extent socio‐ethnic shifts take place in a pluri‐ethnic urban setting reveals that the process occurs from a situation of group‐clustering on the basis of ethnicity to a situation of ethnicity that is absorbed and sometimes left behind in faith communities. Situations are identified of social and religious‐cultural bridging to the region of origin, but also of socio‐cultural integration, supra‐ and meta…

  • Ethnic Dimensions in the Discourse and Identity Strategies of European Converts to Islam in Andalusia and Flanders

    Johan Leman, Christiane Stallaert et al.•ARTICLE•New Community•2010•Cited by: 2•References: 3

    This paper analyzes, from a comparative point of view, the ethnic dimensions in both the (public) discourse and identity strategies of European converts to Islam. In order to highlight the very different conditions European neo-Muslims face when adopting an ethnicizing discourse and/or strategies, two divergent settings for study have been selected. We will present some data on Andalusia (Spain), where in the aftermath of Francoism, some Spanish …

  • A “Lucan Effect” in the Commitment of Iranian Converts in Transit. The case of the Pentecostal Iranian Enclave in Istanbul

    Open Access•Johan Leman•ARTICLE•Revue des mondes musulmans et de…•2007•Cited by: 2•References: 9

    Conversions are not uncommon among transit migrants towards the West. Christian churches, above all Pentecostalism, act as enclaves, also in Islamic countries. They offer a foothold and prospects for the future, in brief: hope. The newcomer grows towards a rebirth. Given that, fundamentally, both the transit migrant and the religious community are transnationally oriented, the convert ultimately discovers a new continuity between past, present an…

  • The Various 'Safe'-House Profiles in East-European Human Smuggling and Trafficking

    Johan Leman, Stef Janssen et al.•ARTICLE•New Community•2007•Cited by: 2•References: 3

    In examining the activities of eight networks involved in human smuggling and/or trafficking from Eastern Europe to Belgium, we focus on the function of the ‘safe’ houses they use. We compare our findings with those reported in the existing literature on safe houses, which mainly looks at Chinese human smuggling networks. The differences relate to trafficking for the purpose of female prostitution, to smuggling practices directly associated with …

  • Highly-qualified Iranian immigrants in Germany: The role of ethnicity and culture

    Sigrid Bafekr, Johan Leman•ARTICLE•New Community•1999•Cited by: 2•References: 7

    In parallel with their fellow countrymen and women in the USA and France, Iranians resident in Germany, and in particular the group of intellectuals whom we are discussing here, have founded various cultural associations. They meet each other regularly at scientific‐cultural events. The following description is the result of participation at these meetings and of numerous discussions and interviews held with the individuals involved between 1994 …

  • Creative Adaptive Criminal Entrepreneurs from Africa and Human Trafficking in Belgium: Case Studies of Traffickers from Nigeria and Morocco

    Open Access•Johan Leman, Stefan Janssens•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2013•Cited by: 1•References: 4

    The article is based on 48 Belgian judicial files (27 Nigerian and 21 Moroccan ones), that concern the practices that created victims of human trafficking from Nigeria and Morocco in Belgium and some neighbouring countries. We discover that the most efficient criminal entrepreneurs are the very flexible ones, who continuously adapt, learn, dare to diversify, and sometimes also to internationalize (but mostly with African partners). An important d…

  • Migration Related Socio-cultural Changes and e-Learning in a European Globalising Society

    Open Access•Johan Leman, Ann Trappers et al.•ARTICLE•Studies in Philosophy and Education•2008•Cited by: 1•References: 7

  • School as a Socialising and Corrective Force in Inter-Ethnic Urban Relations

    Johan Leman•ARTICLE•Journal of Multilingual and…•1997•Cited by: 1

    Brussels is a multicultural setting, with a predominantly French street image, in which the employment market imposes multilingualism (French and Dutch) as the norm. The Brussels capital regy and geographically oriented towards Flanders. Within the Dutch-language education system in Brussels, a socio-pedagogical centre called Foyer is seeking to provide a bicultural and trilinguam that does justice to this bilingual reality and also to the origin…

  • Jehovah's Witnesses and Immigration in Continental Western Europe

    Open Access•Johan Leman•ARTICLE•Social Compass•1979•Cited by: 6

    Face à sa situation de transplanté, l'immigré peut s'orienter de diverses manières : se replier sur son passé ; vivre dans le présent (avec le risque du mimétisme et du conformisme) ; s'orienter vers un avenir précis. A partir d'une recherche empirique menée parmi les Témoins de Jéhovah immigrés et autochtones en Belgique, l'Auteur cherche à expliquer le pourquoi de l'adhésion croissante des migrants à ce mouvement religieux. Sa thèse consiste à …

  • From Challenging Culture to Challenged Culture. The Sicilian Cultural Code and the Socio-Cultural Praxis of Sicilian Inmigrants in Belgium

    Open Access•José A Fernández De Rota, Johan Leman•ARTICLE•Revista Española de Investigaciones…•1988

  • From Challenging Culture to Challenged Nature: The Sicilian Cultural Code and the Socio-Cultural Praxis of Sicilian Immigrants in Belgium

    Emiliana P Noether, Johan Leman•ARTICLE•International Migration Review•1989

  • The Education of Immigrant Children in Belgium

    Open Access•Johan Leman•ARTICLE•Anthropology & Education Quarterly•1991•Cited by: 5•References: 1

    This article examines the Flemish and French educational communities in Belgium, notes some characteristics of the largest minority groups in Belgium (the Italians, Moroccans, Turks, and Spaniards), and reviews some issues related to educational performance of minority students. The article concludes with a discussion of changes in Belgian educational policies for the children of minorities

  • William Boddy, Fifties Television: The Industry and Its Critics; Mary Ann Watson, The Expanding Vista: American Television in the Kennedy Years

    Johan Leman•ARTICLE•Screen•1992

    William Boddy, Fifties Television: The Industry and Its Critics; Mary Ann Watson, The Expanding Vista: American Television in the Kennedy Years Get access William Boddy, Fifties Television: The Industry and Its Critics. Urbana and Chicago: University of Lllinois Press, 1990, 297pp. Mary Ann Watson, The Expanding Vista: American Television in the Kennedy Years. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990, 273pp. Joy Leman Joy Leman Search for other wo…

  • School as a Socialising and Corrective Force in Inter-Ethnic Urban Relations

    Johan Leman•ARTICLE•Journal of Multilingual and…•1997•Cited by: 1

    Brussels is a multicultural setting, with a predominantly French street image, in which the employment market imposes multilingualism (French and Dutch) as the norm. The Brussels capital regy and geographically oriented towards Flanders. Within the Dutch-language education system in Brussels, a socio-pedagogical centre called Foyer is seeking to provide a bicultural and trilinguam that does justice to this bilingual reality and also to the origin…

  • Undocumented migrants in Brussels: Diversity and the anthropology of illegality

    Johan Leman•ARTICLE•New Community•1997•Cited by: 5•References: 2

    This article reveals undocumented migrants to be highly heterogeneous in terms of their origins, the way in which they enter the country, their work and the structure of their family life. This is demonstrated by examining the situation in Brussels in the first half of the 1990s. A distinction is drawn between forms of 'migrant residence illegality' and 'migrant employment illegality'. The context is set with the help of a brief outline of the si…

  • The Italo-Brussels Jehovah's Witnesses Revisited: From First-generation Religious Fundamentalism to Ethno-religious Community Formation

    Open Access•Johan Leman•ARTICLE•Social Compass•1998

    In 1976 a survey was conducted among two Italo-Brussels congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses and the results compared with a number of autochthonous Dutch-speaking and French-speaking control groups. Towards the end of 1996 the author put the same questionnaire to the same two Italo-Brussels congregations as part of a wider survey about allochthonous religious and social networks in Brussels. The results show how the Italo-Brussels community of J…

  • Religions, modulators in Pluri‐ethnic cities: An anthropological analysis of the relative shift from ethnic to supra‐ethnic and meta‐ethnic faith communities in Brussels

    Johan Leman•ARTICLE•Journal of Contemporary Religion•1999•Cited by: 4•References: 5

    Anthropological analysis of how and to what extent socio‐ethnic shifts take place in a pluri‐ethnic urban setting reveals that the process occurs from a situation of group‐clustering on the basis of ethnicity to a situation of ethnicity that is absorbed and sometimes left behind in faith communities. Situations are identified of social and religious‐cultural bridging to the region of origin, but also of socio‐cultural integration, supra‐ and meta…

  • Highly-qualified Iranian immigrants in Germany: The role of ethnicity and culture

    Sigrid Bafekr, Johan Leman•ARTICLE•New Community•1999•Cited by: 2•References: 7

    In parallel with their fellow countrymen and women in the USA and France, Iranians resident in Germany, and in particular the group of intellectuals whom we are discussing here, have founded various cultural associations. They meet each other regularly at scientific‐cultural events. The following description is the result of participation at these meetings and of numerous discussions and interviews held with the individuals involved between 1994 …

  • Minority leadership, science, symbols, and the media: The Belgian Islam debate and its relevance for other countries in Europe

    Open Access•Johan Leman•ARTICLE•Journal of International…•2000

  • The Dynamics of Emerging Ethnicities: Immigrant and Indigenous Ethnogenesis in Confrontation

    Johan Leman•BOOK•The Dynamics of Emerging…•2001

  • Cosmological and Religious Fundamentals among Igbo Immigrants in Belgium: The Way Out of Segregation

    Open Access•Sebastian Okechukwu Onah, Johan Leman•ARTICLE•Social Compass•2005

    In a society such as Belgium, most Igbo migrants of the 1990s soon became immigrants without papers. It was only after regularization campaigns (as in January 2000 in Belgium) that a significant number of them could be regularized to stay. This means that most of them had a very diffcult time in the first years of their stay in Europe. This can best be described as a situation of anonymous liminality. That is the moment when Christianity and thei…

  • The Process of Growth in Krishna Consciousness and Sacredness in Belgium

    Johan Leman, Hannelore Roos•ARTICLE•Journal of Contemporary Religion•2007•References: 3

    The article focuses on the Hare Krishna members in Belgium. Fieldwork was carried out among the 'temple residents' at Radhadesh, those who live in its vicinity, the 'congregationalists' in the local centres, and those who are on the way of being initiated. The articles focuses on the development members undergo from 'adepts' to 'devotees', that is from 'congregationalists' to becoming full-time 'temple residents' in Radhadesh. The question we add…

  • A “Lucan Effect” in the Commitment of Iranian Converts in Transit. The case of the Pentecostal Iranian Enclave in Istanbul

    Open Access•Johan Leman•ARTICLE•Revue des mondes musulmans et de…•2007•Cited by: 2•References: 9

    Conversions are not uncommon among transit migrants towards the West. Christian churches, above all Pentecostalism, act as enclaves, also in Islamic countries. They offer a foothold and prospects for the future, in brief: hope. The newcomer grows towards a rebirth. Given that, fundamentally, both the transit migrant and the religious community are transnationally oriented, the convert ultimately discovers a new continuity between past, present an…

  • The Various 'Safe'-House Profiles in East-European Human Smuggling and Trafficking

    Johan Leman, Stef Janssen et al.•ARTICLE•New Community•2007•Cited by: 2•References: 3

    In examining the activities of eight networks involved in human smuggling and/or trafficking from Eastern Europe to Belgium, we focus on the function of the ‘safe’ houses they use. We compare our findings with those reported in the existing literature on safe houses, which mainly looks at Chinese human smuggling networks. The differences relate to trafficking for the purpose of female prostitution, to smuggling practices directly associated with …

  • Kinship and Shifting Intra-Family Focalism among the Italo-Brussels Jehovah's Witnesses

    Open Access•Johan Leman•ARTICLE•Social Compass•2008

    The author reports on the observation of the communities of Italo-Brussels Jehovah's Witnesses over a 30-year period (research in 1976, 1996 and 2005). In the 1970s, “conversion” as the means of entry into a new religious community was dominant as a theme in the Kingdom Halls. Thirty years later, it is recruitment through kin and the “vécu” of kinship relations inside the religious enclaves which has become the main objective of these communities…

  • Migration Related Socio-cultural Changes and e-Learning in a European Globalising Society

    Open Access•Johan Leman, Ann Trappers et al.•ARTICLE•Studies in Philosophy and Education•2008•Cited by: 1•References: 7

  • Conduct’ and ‘Counter-conduct’ on the Southern Border of Turkey: Multicultural Antakya

    Fulya Doğruel, Johan Leman•ARTICLE•Middle Eastern Studies•2009•Cited by: 5

    Why is Antakya so different, especially in the Turkish context? A 'Foucauldian' analysis of the diachronically composed multiculturalism of a Turkish city at the border with Syria, with focus on the Sunni Turkish majority community and the three major minorities, that have Arabic as their language of provenance. The historical-anthropological approach includes the important steps of Turkey's 20th Century history

  • Ethnic Dimensions in the Discourse and Identity Strategies of European Converts to Islam in Andalusia and Flanders

    Johan Leman, Christiane Stallaert et al.•ARTICLE•New Community•2010•Cited by: 2•References: 3

    This paper analyzes, from a comparative point of view, the ethnic dimensions in both the (public) discourse and identity strategies of European converts to Islam. In order to highlight the very different conditions European neo-Muslims face when adopting an ethnicizing discourse and/or strategies, two divergent settings for study have been selected. We will present some data on Andalusia (Spain), where in the aftermath of Francoism, some Spanish …

  • Albanian Entrepreneurial Practices in Human Smuggling and Trafficking: On the Road to the United Kingdom via Brussels, 1995–2005

    Open Access•Johan Leman, Stef Janssens•ARTICLE•International Migration•2011•Cited by: 4•References: 4

    The authors studied the entrepreneurial culture among Albanian smugglers and traffickers using 43 Albanian judicial files in Belgium from 1995–2005. They analyse the niches that these “entrepreneurs” created as well as the way they invested profits. The authors also analyse the personal agency of the smuggled and trafficked clients, and practices that may help to explain the specific entrepreneurial culture. Short comparisons are made with other …

  • Creative Adaptive Criminal Entrepreneurs from Africa and Human Trafficking in Belgium: Case Studies of Traffickers from Nigeria and Morocco

    Open Access•Johan Leman, Stefan Janssens•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2013•Cited by: 1•References: 4

    The article is based on 48 Belgian judicial files (27 Nigerian and 21 Moroccan ones), that concern the practices that created victims of human trafficking from Nigeria and Morocco in Belgium and some neighbouring countries. We discover that the most efficient criminal entrepreneurs are the very flexible ones, who continuously adapt, learn, dare to diversify, and sometimes also to internationalize (but mostly with African partners). An important d…

  • Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling in Southeast Europe and Russia: Learning Criminal Entrepreneurship and Traditional Culture

    Open Access•Johan Leman, Stef Janssens•BOOK•Human Trafficking and Migrant…•2015

    Through unprecedented access to over 100 court files and sentences, and interviews with police and security personnel in both origin and destination countries, this book provides the most comprehensiv

  • Human Smuggling on Europe’s Eastern Balkan and Eastern Borders Routes

    Open Access•Johan Leman, Stef Janssens et al.•ARTICLE•Migracijske i etničke teme /…•2018

    The authors propose an analysis of the developments in migrants' smuggling (and indirectly also in transit migrations) on the Eastern Balkan (Bulgaria-Romania) and Eastern Borders (Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus) routes from around 2015. For some transit migrants (and migrants' smugglers), with the severe controls on the Western Balkan route and after the EU-Turkey deal of April 2016, the new routes, each with its own already decennia-long smuggling t…

  • Militant Jihadism

    Open Access•Serafettin Pekta, Serafettin Pektas et al.•BOOK•Militant Jihadism•2019

    Jihadist militants keep being a global threat. Many observers suggest that a transformation is likely to happen in their organisation, operation, mobilisation, and recruitment strategies, particularly after the territorial decline of the “Caliphate” of the “Islamic State.” This volume explores different aspects of the future trajectories of militant jihadism and the prospective transformation of this movement in and around Europe. The authors ana…

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