Christof Bex
Biographic Data
| ID | 89542 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christof Bex |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christof |
| FAMILY NAME | Bex |
| SIGNATURE | BEX C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ghent University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Caringscapes and belonging
Through testimonies of guardians and young adults looking back upon their lives as unaccompanied minors in Belgium, this paper aims to obtain better understanding of the multifaceted and simultaneous intersections that shape the unaccompanied minors’ care relationships. It claims that while age as a criterion for the entitlement to care might work as an enabling structural element in the care trajectories of unaccompanied minors, the young people…
Imageries of family and nation
Drawing on empirical research completed in Belgium, this article presents a comparative analysis of the care regimes for two categories of children: transnational adoptees and unaccompanied minors. Although state immigration policies consider the two groups of minors as humanitarian exceptions that require preferential treatment, the kind of humanitarian help and social investment they are believed to deserve differs dramatically. Ideologies of r…
Caringscapes and belonging
Through testimonies of guardians and young adults looking back upon their lives as unaccompanied minors in Belgium, this paper aims to obtain better understanding of the multifaceted and simultaneous intersections that shape the unaccompanied minors’ care relationships. It claims that while age as a criterion for the entitlement to care might work as an enabling structural element in the care trajectories of unaccompanied minors, the young people…
Imageries of family and nation
Drawing on empirical research completed in Belgium, this article presents a comparative analysis of the care regimes for two categories of children: transnational adoptees and unaccompanied minors. Although state immigration policies consider the two groups of minors as humanitarian exceptions that require preferential treatment, the kind of humanitarian help and social investment they are believed to deserve differs dramatically. Ideologies of r…
Caringscapes and belonging
Through testimonies of guardians and young adults looking back upon their lives as unaccompanied minors in Belgium, this paper aims to obtain better understanding of the multifaceted and simultaneous intersections that shape the unaccompanied minors’ care relationships. It claims that while age as a criterion for the entitlement to care might work as an enabling structural element in the care trajectories of unaccompanied minors, the young people…
Imageries of family and nation
Drawing on empirical research completed in Belgium, this article presents a comparative analysis of the care regimes for two categories of children: transnational adoptees and unaccompanied minors. Although state immigration policies consider the two groups of minors as humanitarian exceptions that require preferential treatment, the kind of humanitarian help and social investment they are believed to deserve differs dramatically. Ideologies of r…
Immigration (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Affect (linguistics (1 work) · Bureaucracy (1 work) · Care work (1 work) · Child Welfare and Adoption (1 work) · Children's Rights and Participation (1 work)