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Researcher

Robin Vandevoordt

Publications & Research Data

Awards & Distinctions

32 Results

2026

Piloting sanctuary? Negotiating inclusive policies towards illegalised migrants in Ghent, Belgium

Soline BalletRobin Vandevoordt

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES

2025

A genealogy of ‘future orientation’ : re-inventing social work in an era of welfare state bordering

Soline BalletRobin VandevoordtIne Lietaert

A1 Journal Article in SOCIAL POLICY & ADMINISTRATION

Battling the ‘zero-fixation policy’ at the French-British border : from humanitarian support to human rights monitoring, legal action and scale-shifting

Marlies CasierRobin Vandevoordt

Beyond accountability? Exploring the promises and challenges of citizen collectives

Robin Vandevoordt

A2 Journal Article in FENNIA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHY

Departheid in the Post‐Soviet space? The shifting geopolitics and racialisation of migration governance in Lithuania

Julija KekstaiteRobin Vandevoordt

A1 Journal Article in ANTIPODE

Reclaiming social work amid welfare state bordering? Interstices, remnants and frictions in social work with illegalised migrants in Belgium

Soline BalletRobin VandevoordtIne LietaertEllen Desmet

Refugee families after recognition : barriers and pathways to inclusion

Mieke GroeninckLouise CarlierPascal DebruyneDirk GeldofGiacomo OrsiniRoos-Marie van den BogaardRobin Vandevoordt

Remembering to resist? The politics of memory in european border zones

Marlies CasierRobin Vandevoordt

Van de ene opvangcrisis naar de andere: ‘Waar is de solidariteit naartoe?’

Marlies CasierRobin Vandevoordt

Article in a magazine

2024

Negotiating borders through a politics of scale : municipalities and urban civil society initiatives in the contested field of migration

Ilker AtaçHelge SchwiertzMartin Bak JørgensenRobin VandevoordtSophie HingerSusanne Spindler

A1 Journal Article in GEOPOLITICS

Subversive humanitarianism

Robin Vandevoordt

Bookchapter in Handbook of humanitarianism and inequality

2023

Legitimising detention and deportation of illegalised migrant families : reconstructing public controversies in Belgium and the Netherlands

Nathan WittockLaura CletonRobin VandevoordtGert Verschraegen

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES

2022

De ruimte van het middenveld om de mensenrechten van migranten te verdedigen

Ellen DesmetRobin Vandevoordt

A2 Journal Article in TIJDSCHRIFT VOOR MENSENRECHTEN

2021

A more subversive humanitarianism? The political strategies of grassroots initiatives supporting illegalized migrants

Robin Vandevoordt

Bookchapter in Citizen humanitarianism at European borders

Impossible futures? The ambivalent temporalities of grassroots humanitarian action

Robin VandevoordtLarissa Fleischmann

A1 Journal Article in CRITICAL SOCIOLOGY

Resisting bare life : civil solidarity and the hunt for illegalized migrants

Robin Vandevoordt

A1 Journal Article in INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION

2020

A more personal shelter : how citizens are hosting forced migrants in and around Brussels

Robin Vandevoordt

Bookchapter in Structures of protection? Rethinking refugee shelter

2019

Citizenship as a gift : how Syrian refugees in Belgium make sense of their social rights

Robin VandevoordtGert Verschraegen

A1 Journal Article in CITIZENSHIP STUDIES

Demonstrating deservingness and dignity : symbolic boundary work among Syrian refugees

Robin VandevoordtGert Verschraegen

A1 Journal Article in POETICS

Eroding rights, crafting solidarity? Shifting dynamics in the state–civil society nexus in Flanders and Brussels

Robin Vandevoordt

A1 Journal Article in SOCIAL INCLUSION

Subversive humanitarianism : rethinking refugee solidarity through grass-roots initiatives

Robin Vandevoordt

A2 Journal Article in REFUGEE SURVEY QUARTERLY

Subversive humanitarianism and its challenges : notes on the political ambiguities of civil refugee support

Robin Vandevoordt

Bookchapter in Refugee protection and civil society in Europe

The European refugee controversy : civil solidarity, cultural imaginaries and political change

Robin VandevoordtGert Verschraegen

Editorial material

2018

Judgement and ambivalence in migration work : on the (dis)appearance of dilemmas in assisting voluntary return

Robin Vandevoordt

A1 Journal Article in SOCIOLOGY-THE JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

Moral cosmopolitanism and the everyday life : how students encounter distant others

Robin Vandevoordt

A1 Journal Article in MEDIA CULTURE & SOCIETY

2017

Between humanitarian assistance and migration management : on civil actors’ role in voluntary return from Belgium

Robin Vandevoordt

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF ETHNIC AND MIGRATION STUDIES

The politics of food and hospitality : how Syrian refugees in Belgium create a home in hostile environments

Robin Vandevoordt

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF REFUGEE STUDIES

Why journalists covered Syria the way they did : on the role of economic, social and cultural capital

Robin Vandevoordt

A1 Journal Article in JOURNALISM

2016

Covering the Syrian conflict : how Middle East reporters deal with challenging situations

Robin Vandevoordt

A2 Journal Article in MEDIA WAR AND CONFLICT

Humanitarian media events : on the symbolic conditions of moral integration

Robin Vandevoordt

Bookchapter in Global perspectives on media events in contemporary society

Ruin, allegory, melancholy. On the critical aesthetics of W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn

Robin Vandevoordt

A2 Journal Article in TRANSFORMATIONS

2014

Unspeakable resistance : Walter Benjamin on Attic tragedy

Robin Vandevoordt

A2 Journal Article in THESIS ELEVEN