Mieke Schrooten
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 181944 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Mieke Schrooten |
| PRENOMES | Mieke |
| SOBRENOME | Schrooten |
| ASSINATURA | SCHROOTEN M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Odisee, University of Applied Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6880-4492 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 71 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
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A mosaic of solidarity – Exploring religion-based solidarity initiatives in Flanders (Belgium)
sponsorship: This research is part of the SOLIGION project (2021-2024) funded by the Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek project number: S006621N. (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek|S006621N)
Defining transnational families across countries and time
In an increasingly globalized, digital world, the way family isconceptualized and practiced is becoming highly diversified andcomplex. This article investigates the evolving concept oftransnational families (TNFs) and aims to elucidate the similaritiesand differences in how ‘transnational’ and ‘family’ are understoodin the academic literature across various contexts. The study isbased on an analysis of academic publications on TNF from 2003to 202…
Harmony Amidst Discord
This paper explores the complex dynamics between religion-based solidarity initiatives (RSIs) and local governments, focusing on government funding. RSIs, driven by religious values, support vulnerable groups but often face tension with secular, bureaucratic expectations. Using an institutional logics framework, the study identifies sources of tension and examines how RSIs in Antwerp and Louvain, Belgium, navigate these challenges. Our findings s…
Navigating Displacement
Russia's full‐scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 triggered one of the most significant displacement crises in modern European history, with over 6.3 million Ukrainians fleeing to Europe. The European Union's activation of the Temporary Protection Directive facilitated immediate access to housing, employment, and social security benefits for Ukrainian refugees, setting a stark contrast to past refugee crises. This Special Issue of Global Networks c…
Religion and political participation reconsidered
n this article, we expand the understanding of the role of religious civil society actors as political intermediaries by re-evaluating the meaning of political participation and power, and moving beyond a binary understanding of religion and political participation in liberal democracies. We present three key findings of our research on faith-based organizations (FBOs) in Flanders: (1) service delivery functions as a site for political participat…
Sharing is caring
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…
An argument for transnational learning in social work programmes
Internationalization has steadily grown in importance and scope in tertiary education. In addition to exchange and scholarship programmes that encourage student mobility, curricular internationalization or ‘internationalization at home’ has broadened opportunities to integrate international dimensions into the curriculum. Despite the value of ‘transnational awareness’ for future social workers, the degree to which educators in social work invest …
De rol van bedelen in de overlevingsstrategieën van Brusselse straatbewoners
La vie des publics vulnérables est souvent mal documentée, privant les autorités et les organisations d’informations fiables pour élaborer une politique adaptée à leurs besoins. Les personnes qui vivent dans la rue forment une population vulnérable et cachée. Certaines mendient mais cette activité, pourtant prompte à déclencher de vifs débats, reste dans l’angle mort de la recherche scientifique. Dans cette contribution, nous analysons six années…
Le rôle de la mendicité dans les stratégies de survie des habitants de la rue à Bruxelles
La vie des publics vulnérables est souvent mal documentée, privant les autorités et les organisations d’informations fiables pour élaborer une politique adaptée à leurs besoins. Les personnes qui vivent dans la rue forment une population vulnérable et cachée. Certaines mendient mais cette activité, pourtant prompte à déclencher de vifs débats, reste dans l’angle mort de la recherche scientifique. Dans cette contribution, nous analysons six années…
The role of begging in the survival strategies of Brussels street people
La vie des publics vulnérables est souvent mal documentée, privant les autorités et les organisations d’informations fiables pour élaborer une politique adaptée à leurs besoins. Les personnes qui vivent dans la rue forment une population vulnérable et cachée. Certaines mendient mais cette activité, pourtant prompte à déclencher de vifs débats, reste dans l’angle mort de la recherche scientifique. Dans cette contribution, nous analysons six années…
It's not that we Feel Incompetent, We Simply Lack the Institutional Solutions” Applying a Collective Capabilities Perspective to Voluntary Organisations in the Homelessness Field
In today’s changing care and welfare landscape, voluntary organisations play an important role in providing care to homeless people. The limited literature on such initiatives is often sceptical about their effectiveness, although they do point to their positive contributions. In this paper, we use a Collective Capabilities lens to analyse the role, value, and limitations of volunteer initiatives addressing homelessness. We apply this framework t…
Faith Based Organizations
In this paper, we present the results of our scoping review on the literature (2010–2021) on faith-based organizations (FBOs) active in the field of poverty alleviation. We focus on the different typologies that are used to study FBOs. Because not all articles use an existing typology or develop a new one, we also collected and studied the variables that are used in the articles to distinguish different types of FBOs. Our research shows that the …
Hidden Homelessness
Traditional interpretations of homelessness focus on people living on the streets or in shelters. However, homelessness encompasses many more living situations. This article reports on a scoping review of studies on hidden homelessness. A systematic search in scientific databanks was combined with an exploration of Google Scholar. The results of the review reveal a lack of consensus regarding the definition of the concept. Moreover, since most st…
Community service learning in complex urban settings
Urban diversity poses significant challenges for social work education in Europe’s major cities. These challenges manifest themselves in an accumulation of conflicts, inequalities, and fracture lines between individuals, networks, cultures, but also different groups and their institutional and political environments. This current challenge for the education of the next generation of social workers is also related to the rapidly changing environme…
Transnational social work
Interest in transnationality and borders has expanded considerably within several academic disciplines over the last decades. This paper explores the way this transnational perspective has been developed within social work. It then identifies a number of gaps in current transnational social work research and proposes four avenues for additional inquiry that allow for an unbounding of how social work is theorised and the development of a perspecti…
The possible role and position of social work as part of the arrival infrastructure
In order to de-nationalise, de-‘ethnicise’ and de-‘migranticise’ migration studies, scholars are increasingly turning to space as a conceptual and empirical entry-point. Inspired upon the notion of the urban ‘transition zone’, initially coined by Chicago School urban sociologists in the 1930s, recent research re-focuses on the role of particular urban neighbourhoods as places of ‘arrival’ and ‘gateways’ that stimulate the social and spatial mobil…
Participant Observation in Migration Studies
Migration and the search for home
Migration and the search for home: mapping domestic space in migrants’ everyday lives." European Journal of Social Work, 21(5), pp. 791–792
Transmigration
Superdiversity implies increasing diversity within diversity, including the rise of flexible migration strategies: complex migration trajectories implying serial cross-border mobility between two or more countries. The article explores transmigration in the two main superdiverse Belgian cities of Brussels and Antwerp, based upon in-depth interviews with Brazilian, Ghanaian and Moroccan transmigrants. The article analyses the social problems relat…
Living in mobility
Within the social sciences, migration has traditionally been conceived of as a unidirectional, purposeful and intentional process from one state of fixity (in the place of origin) to another (in the destination). By mapping the trajectories of Brazilians who currently reside in Belgium or the UK, this article draws attention to a group of people whose mobile practices do not fit this definition. On the contrary, their experiences are marked by an…
Living across borders
Based on research amongst Brazilian and Moroccan temporary residents of the cities of Brussels and Antwerp (Belgium), this article engages with the changes in and current methodological approaches to migration studies. By demonstrating how the trajectories of many contemporary migrants are marked by ongoing mobility, it further complicates previous linear and unidirectional models of migration to move beyond a classical and potentially determinis…
Transmigration and urban social work
© 2015 Taylor & Francis. Many Western European countries, and especially the larger cities within these countries, are making a transition towards super-diversity. This shift towards super-diversity is also characterised by a growth of the phenomenon of transmigration, whereby people frequently move back and forth across borders. The social life of transmigrants is not only oriented towards their country of residence, but also consists of complex…
Moving ethnography online
This article contributes to recent scholarship on the changing nature of fieldwork practices within migration research, focusing on the practice of online ethnography. It makes a case for the significance of the internet and, more specifically, social network sites, in the experience of many migrants. I state that online togetherness is an integral part of the lives of many migrants which also interrelates with 'offline' aspects of their social l…
Radical hope
Radical hope: poverty-aware practice for social work." European Journal of Social Work, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Moving ethnography online
This article contributes to recent scholarship on the changing nature of fieldwork practices within migration research, focusing on the practice of online ethnography. It makes a case for the significance of the internet and, more specifically, social network sites, in the experience of many migrants. I state that online togetherness is an integral part of the lives of many migrants which also interrelates with 'offline' aspects of their social l…
Living in mobility
Within the social sciences, migration has traditionally been conceived of as a unidirectional, purposeful and intentional process from one state of fixity (in the place of origin) to another (in the destination). By mapping the trajectories of Brazilians who currently reside in Belgium or the UK, this article draws attention to a group of people whose mobile practices do not fit this definition. On the contrary, their experiences are marked by an…
The possible role and position of social work as part of the arrival infrastructure
In order to de-nationalise, de-‘ethnicise’ and de-‘migranticise’ migration studies, scholars are increasingly turning to space as a conceptual and empirical entry-point. Inspired upon the notion of the urban ‘transition zone’, initially coined by Chicago School urban sociologists in the 1930s, recent research re-focuses on the role of particular urban neighbourhoods as places of ‘arrival’ and ‘gateways’ that stimulate the social and spatial mobil…
Transmigration
Superdiversity implies increasing diversity within diversity, including the rise of flexible migration strategies: complex migration trajectories implying serial cross-border mobility between two or more countries. The article explores transmigration in the two main superdiverse Belgian cities of Brussels and Antwerp, based upon in-depth interviews with Brazilian, Ghanaian and Moroccan transmigrants. The article analyses the social problems relat…
Transmigration and urban social work
© 2015 Taylor & Francis. Many Western European countries, and especially the larger cities within these countries, are making a transition towards super-diversity. This shift towards super-diversity is also characterised by a growth of the phenomenon of transmigration, whereby people frequently move back and forth across borders. The social life of transmigrants is not only oriented towards their country of residence, but also consists of complex…
Living across borders
Based on research amongst Brazilian and Moroccan temporary residents of the cities of Brussels and Antwerp (Belgium), this article engages with the changes in and current methodological approaches to migration studies. By demonstrating how the trajectories of many contemporary migrants are marked by ongoing mobility, it further complicates previous linear and unidirectional models of migration to move beyond a classical and potentially determinis…
Navigating Displacement
Russia's full‐scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 triggered one of the most significant displacement crises in modern European history, with over 6.3 million Ukrainians fleeing to Europe. The European Union's activation of the Temporary Protection Directive facilitated immediate access to housing, employment, and social security benefits for Ukrainian refugees, setting a stark contrast to past refugee crises. This Special Issue of Global Networks c…
Migration and the search for home
Migration and the search for home: mapping domestic space in migrants’ everyday lives." European Journal of Social Work, 21(5), pp. 791–792
Harmony Amidst Discord
This paper explores the complex dynamics between religion-based solidarity initiatives (RSIs) and local governments, focusing on government funding. RSIs, driven by religious values, support vulnerable groups but often face tension with secular, bureaucratic expectations. Using an institutional logics framework, the study identifies sources of tension and examines how RSIs in Antwerp and Louvain, Belgium, navigate these challenges. Our findings s…
Internal migration and ethnic division
Starting from the observation that Brazilian history has led to the development of a very distinct system of race relations, this paper focuses on the (re)creation of ethnic divisions in a new city, Palmas, the capital of the Brazilian state Tocantins. Because the city was only founded in 1990, internal migration has heavily influenced the composition of the city’s population. The research shows that residential proximity and interaction between …
Internal migration and ethnic division
Starting from the observation that Brazilian history has led to the development of a very distinct system of race relations, this paper focuses on the (re)creation of ethnic divisions in a new city, Palmas, the capital of the Brazilian state Tocantins. Because the city was only founded in 1990, internal migration has heavily influenced the composition of the city’s population. The research shows that residential proximity and interaction between …
Moving ethnography online
This article contributes to recent scholarship on the changing nature of fieldwork practices within migration research, focusing on the practice of online ethnography. It makes a case for the significance of the internet and, more specifically, social network sites, in the experience of many migrants. I state that online togetherness is an integral part of the lives of many migrants which also interrelates with 'offline' aspects of their social l…
Living across borders
Based on research amongst Brazilian and Moroccan temporary residents of the cities of Brussels and Antwerp (Belgium), this article engages with the changes in and current methodological approaches to migration studies. By demonstrating how the trajectories of many contemporary migrants are marked by ongoing mobility, it further complicates previous linear and unidirectional models of migration to move beyond a classical and potentially determinis…
Transmigration and urban social work
© 2015 Taylor & Francis. Many Western European countries, and especially the larger cities within these countries, are making a transition towards super-diversity. This shift towards super-diversity is also characterised by a growth of the phenomenon of transmigration, whereby people frequently move back and forth across borders. The social life of transmigrants is not only oriented towards their country of residence, but also consists of complex…
Living in mobility
Within the social sciences, migration has traditionally been conceived of as a unidirectional, purposeful and intentional process from one state of fixity (in the place of origin) to another (in the destination). By mapping the trajectories of Brazilians who currently reside in Belgium or the UK, this article draws attention to a group of people whose mobile practices do not fit this definition. On the contrary, their experiences are marked by an…
Transmigration
Superdiversity implies increasing diversity within diversity, including the rise of flexible migration strategies: complex migration trajectories implying serial cross-border mobility between two or more countries. The article explores transmigration in the two main superdiverse Belgian cities of Brussels and Antwerp, based upon in-depth interviews with Brazilian, Ghanaian and Moroccan transmigrants. The article analyses the social problems relat…
Participant Observation in Migration Studies
Migration and the search for home
Migration and the search for home: mapping domestic space in migrants’ everyday lives." European Journal of Social Work, 21(5), pp. 791–792
The possible role and position of social work as part of the arrival infrastructure
In order to de-nationalise, de-‘ethnicise’ and de-‘migranticise’ migration studies, scholars are increasingly turning to space as a conceptual and empirical entry-point. Inspired upon the notion of the urban ‘transition zone’, initially coined by Chicago School urban sociologists in the 1930s, recent research re-focuses on the role of particular urban neighbourhoods as places of ‘arrival’ and ‘gateways’ that stimulate the social and spatial mobil…
Transnational social work
Interest in transnationality and borders has expanded considerably within several academic disciplines over the last decades. This paper explores the way this transnational perspective has been developed within social work. It then identifies a number of gaps in current transnational social work research and proposes four avenues for additional inquiry that allow for an unbounding of how social work is theorised and the development of a perspecti…
Community service learning in complex urban settings
Urban diversity poses significant challenges for social work education in Europe’s major cities. These challenges manifest themselves in an accumulation of conflicts, inequalities, and fracture lines between individuals, networks, cultures, but also different groups and their institutional and political environments. This current challenge for the education of the next generation of social workers is also related to the rapidly changing environme…
Faith Based Organizations
In this paper, we present the results of our scoping review on the literature (2010–2021) on faith-based organizations (FBOs) active in the field of poverty alleviation. We focus on the different typologies that are used to study FBOs. Because not all articles use an existing typology or develop a new one, we also collected and studied the variables that are used in the articles to distinguish different types of FBOs. Our research shows that the …
Hidden Homelessness
Traditional interpretations of homelessness focus on people living on the streets or in shelters. However, homelessness encompasses many more living situations. This article reports on a scoping review of studies on hidden homelessness. A systematic search in scientific databanks was combined with an exploration of Google Scholar. The results of the review reveal a lack of consensus regarding the definition of the concept. Moreover, since most st…
An argument for transnational learning in social work programmes
Internationalization has steadily grown in importance and scope in tertiary education. In addition to exchange and scholarship programmes that encourage student mobility, curricular internationalization or ‘internationalization at home’ has broadened opportunities to integrate international dimensions into the curriculum. Despite the value of ‘transnational awareness’ for future social workers, the degree to which educators in social work invest …
De rol van bedelen in de overlevingsstrategieën van Brusselse straatbewoners
La vie des publics vulnérables est souvent mal documentée, privant les autorités et les organisations d’informations fiables pour élaborer une politique adaptée à leurs besoins. Les personnes qui vivent dans la rue forment une population vulnérable et cachée. Certaines mendient mais cette activité, pourtant prompte à déclencher de vifs débats, reste dans l’angle mort de la recherche scientifique. Dans cette contribution, nous analysons six années…
Le rôle de la mendicité dans les stratégies de survie des habitants de la rue à Bruxelles
La vie des publics vulnérables est souvent mal documentée, privant les autorités et les organisations d’informations fiables pour élaborer une politique adaptée à leurs besoins. Les personnes qui vivent dans la rue forment une population vulnérable et cachée. Certaines mendient mais cette activité, pourtant prompte à déclencher de vifs débats, reste dans l’angle mort de la recherche scientifique. Dans cette contribution, nous analysons six années…
The role of begging in the survival strategies of Brussels street people
La vie des publics vulnérables est souvent mal documentée, privant les autorités et les organisations d’informations fiables pour élaborer une politique adaptée à leurs besoins. Les personnes qui vivent dans la rue forment une population vulnérable et cachée. Certaines mendient mais cette activité, pourtant prompte à déclencher de vifs débats, reste dans l’angle mort de la recherche scientifique. Dans cette contribution, nous analysons six années…
It's not that we Feel Incompetent, We Simply Lack the Institutional Solutions” Applying a Collective Capabilities Perspective to Voluntary Organisations in the Homelessness Field
In today’s changing care and welfare landscape, voluntary organisations play an important role in providing care to homeless people. The limited literature on such initiatives is often sceptical about their effectiveness, although they do point to their positive contributions. In this paper, we use a Collective Capabilities lens to analyse the role, value, and limitations of volunteer initiatives addressing homelessness. We apply this framework t…
Radical hope
Radical hope: poverty-aware practice for social work." European Journal of Social Work, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
A mosaic of solidarity – Exploring religion-based solidarity initiatives in Flanders (Belgium)
sponsorship: This research is part of the SOLIGION project (2021-2024) funded by the Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek project number: S006621N. (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek|S006621N)
Defining transnational families across countries and time
In an increasingly globalized, digital world, the way family isconceptualized and practiced is becoming highly diversified andcomplex. This article investigates the evolving concept oftransnational families (TNFs) and aims to elucidate the similaritiesand differences in how ‘transnational’ and ‘family’ are understoodin the academic literature across various contexts. The study isbased on an analysis of academic publications on TNF from 2003to 202…
Harmony Amidst Discord
This paper explores the complex dynamics between religion-based solidarity initiatives (RSIs) and local governments, focusing on government funding. RSIs, driven by religious values, support vulnerable groups but often face tension with secular, bureaucratic expectations. Using an institutional logics framework, the study identifies sources of tension and examines how RSIs in Antwerp and Louvain, Belgium, navigate these challenges. Our findings s…
Navigating Displacement
Russia's full‐scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 triggered one of the most significant displacement crises in modern European history, with over 6.3 million Ukrainians fleeing to Europe. The European Union's activation of the Temporary Protection Directive facilitated immediate access to housing, employment, and social security benefits for Ukrainian refugees, setting a stark contrast to past refugee crises. This Special Issue of Global Networks c…
Religion and political participation reconsidered
n this article, we expand the understanding of the role of religious civil society actors as political intermediaries by re-evaluating the meaning of political participation and power, and moving beyond a binary understanding of religion and political participation in liberal democracies. We present three key findings of our research on faith-based organizations (FBOs) in Flanders: (1) service delivery functions as a site for political participat…
Sharing is caring
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…
Sociology (19 obras) · Political science (16 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Gender Studies (8 obras) · Homelessness and Social Issues (8 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (8 obras) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (8 obras) · Social Work (7 obras) · Computer Science (6 obras)