2026
Budginaitė-Mačkinė, I., Albert, I., Schrooten, M., Stanojević, D., Wojtyńska, A. (2026). Defining transnational families across countries and time: an analysis of academic discourse on the phenomenon between 2003 and 2023. Journal Of Family Studies, 32 (1), 9-28. doi: 10.1080/13229400.2024.2449103
Deleu, H., Schrooten, M., Debruyne, P. (2026). Achter bedelen gaat een netwerk van relaties schuin. De Gids op Maatschappelijk Gebied, 117(2), 21-30.
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Debruyne, P., Groeninck, M., Van Acker, K., Schrooten, M. (2026). Transnational Social Work on the Brink of Practice and Politics. Supporting Family Reunifiation of Refugee Families. In: Routledge Handbook of Social Work and Migration: Theory, Practice, Education, and Research, Chapt. 13, (189-204). (Routledge International Handbooks). Routledge. ISBN: 9781032656960.
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2025
Ahimbisibwe, F., & Nkiko, C.M. (2025). Navigating forced migration in the Horn of Africa: a systematic review of IGAD’s strategic challenges and opportunities, Cogent Social Sciences, 11:1, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2025.2583311
Baillie Smith, M., Fadel, B., Ahimbisibwe, F., Turyamureeba, R. (2025). Refugee volunteering and responses to displacement in Uganda: Navigating service-delivery, work and precarity. Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 6(1), 38–47, http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/JHA.121
Gidron, Yotam, & Titeca, Kristof (2025). Will Uganda’s ‘Open-Door’Refugee Policy Hold? Aid Cuts and Rising Anti-Immigration Sentiments. Egmont Policy Brief, (397). https://egmontinstitute.be/will-ugandas-open-door-refugee-policy-hold-aid-cuts-and-rising-anti-immigration-sentiments/
Nkiko, C.M., & Ahimbisibwe, F. (2025). Employment as a strategic pathway for refugee and host youth integration in Uganda. International Migration & Integration, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12134-025-01250-4
2024
Ahimbisibwe, F. (2024). Respecting her International Obligations? Analyzing Rwanda’s 2014 Law Relating to Refugees. ISIL Year Book of International Humanitarian and Refugee Law, p. 127-153, https://repository.uantwerpen.be/docstore/d:iruaintra:13121
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Belloni, M., & Verschraegen, G. (2024). Family reunification and administrative citizenship: A transnational perspective. In E. Desmet et al. (Eds.), Family reunification in Europe: Exposing inequalities (pp. 259-275). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003503217-19
Debruyne P. and Schrooten M. (2024). Transnationaal sociaal werk: migratie vraagt om andere aanpak. Sociaal.net - (2024.04.22), https://sociaal.net/achtergrond/transnationaal-sociaal-werk-migratie-vraagt-om-andere-aanpak/
Delius, A., & Sterck, O. (2024). Cash transfers and micro-enterprise performance: Theory and quasi-experimental evidence from Kenya. Journal of Development Economics, 103232. https://repository.uantwerpen.be/docstore/d:irua:20782
Desmet, E., Belloni, M., Vanheule, D., Verhellen, J., & Güdük, A. (Eds.). (2024). Family reunification in Europe: Exposing inequalities. Taylor & Francis.
Fadel, B., Baillie Smith, M., Ahimbisibwe, F., Boyle, O., Freimane, I., Kanyandago, P., Mills, S., Okech, M., O'Loghlen, A., Rogerson, D., Sahasranaman, A., Tukundane, C., & Turyamureeba, R. (2024). Volunteering by displaced youth in Uganda: Livelihoods, skills, employability and inequalities. In C. Gille, A. Walter, H. Brombach, B. Haas, & N. Vetter (Eds.), Zivilgesellschaftliches Engagement und Freiwilligendienste: Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Praxis (pp. 1-20). Nomos. https://www.nomos-shop.de/en/nomos/title/zivilgesellschaftliches-engagement-und-freiwilligendienste-id-109361/
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Greefs, H., & Winter, A. (2024). The democratization of long-distance migration: Trajectories and flows during the ‘mobility transition’, 1850–1910. Social Science History, 48(1), 1–26. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/social-science-history/article/democratization-of-longdistance-migration-trajectories-and-flows-during-the-mobility-transition-18501910/AD4B869B39B61D191EFB324AF72C744D
Miri, A. & Emmery, I. (2024, in press). ‘When Mom left for Mars’: Life Narratives of First – and Mid-generation Moroccan Migrant Mothers in Flanders. Submitted to European Journal of Women’s Studies.
Miri, A. (2024). In the Name of Muslim Women’s Right to Learn? A Case Study of Moroccan Migrant Mothers in the Belgian ‘Citizenisation’ Context. In: Easat-Daas, A., Zempi, I. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Gendered Islamophobia. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52022-8_15
Opono, S., & Ahimbisibwe, F. (2024). Vulnerability, resilience, and integration of elderly South Sudanese refugees in Uganda: A case study of Pagirinya settlement in Adjumani district. Institute of Development Policy, Analysis and Policy Brief, (No. 60). https://medialibrary.uantwerpen.be/files/2137/209df35e-2787-4401-acf5-8c54676fc6de.pdf?_gl=1*rttyjd*_gcl_au*MTA2MDQ2NTM4OS4xNzI2NTgwNjc4
Opono, S., & Ahimbisibwe, F. (2024). Protracted refugee situations and the shrinking durable solutions: Could there be a ray of hope in local solutions? Cogent Social Sciences, 10(1), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311886.2024.2395346
Ou-Salah, L., Verschraegen, G. & Van Praag, L. (2024). 'Rain has to do with God's will' : religion and perceptions of environmental change in a Muslim community in the Souss-Massa region of Morocco. Social Compass, 0(0), 1-18, https://doi.org/10.1177/00377686241239615
Ou-Salah, L., Van Praag, L., & Verschraegen, G. (2024). Feminisation of agriculture and the role of environmental changes: 'It's already a tough job and it's getting tougher due to weather changes'. The Geographical Journal / Royal Geographical Society, 190(1), e12542. doi:10.1111/GEOJ.12542
Ou-Salah, L., Van Praag, L., & Verschraegen, G. (2024). Household gender roles and slow-onset environmental change in Morocco: A barrier or driver to develop migration aspirations? The Journal of Development Studies, 60(2), 309-323. doi:10.1080/00220388.2023.2279486
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2023
Ahimbisibwe, F. and Nkiko, C. (2023). IGAD and Forced Migration Response in the Horn of Africa: Prospects and Obstacles. Institute of Development Policy (IOB), University of Antwerp, Working Paper No. 2023.05, ISSN 2294-8643. https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/about-uantwerp/faculties/institute-of-development-policy/development-research/publications/working-papers/
Betts, A., Omata, N., Siu, J., & Sterck, O. (2023). Refugee Mobilities in East Africa: Understanding Secondary Movements. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 49(11), 2648–2675. https://repository.uantwerpen.be/docstore/d:irua:16131
Betts, A., Stierna, M. F., Omata, N., & Sterck, O. (2023). Refugees Welcome? Inter-group Interaction and Host Community Attitude Formation. World Development, 161, 106088. doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.106088
Cin, F. M., Walker, C., Süleymanoğlu-Kürüm, R., Gunter, A., Doğan, N., Truter, L., Ahimbisibwe, F. & Olaniyan, T. C. (2023). Political Participation of Refugee and Host Community Youths: Epistemic Resistance Through Artistic and Participatory Spaces. Journal of Youth Studies, 1-18, https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2023.2273346
De Hertog, S., & Belloni, M. (2023). Fraudulent Families? Investigating the Role of Paperwork in the Assessment of Refugees’ Family Reunification in Belgium. Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 1-15 https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.2023.2271864
Gazeaud, J., Mvukiyehe, E., & Sterck, O. (2023). Cash Transfers and Migration: Theory and Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial. The Review of Economics and Statistics, 105(1), 143–157. doi:10.1162/rest_a_01041
Landini, I., & Sciortino, G. (2023). External Controls: Policing Entries, Enforcing Exits. In Migration Control Logics and Strategies in Europe: A North-South Comparison (pp. 21-49). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Lea Müller-Funk, Ayşen Üstübici & Milena Belloni (2023) Daring to aspire: theorising aspirations in contexts of displacement and highly constrained mobility, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2023.2208291
Miri, A. (2023). “I am still waiting for my papers but ʾinna Allāha maʿa al-ṣābirīn’”: On religious temporalityand agency in female migrants’ precarious migration experiences. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
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Opono S. and Ahimbisibwe, F. (2023). Attitudes of Refugees Towards Integration: The Experience of South Sudanese Refugees in Adjumani District in Uganda. Society, 60(3), 333–344, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-023-00858-5
Ou-Salah, L., Van Praag, L., & Verschraegen, G. (2023). "You can't even predict the rain anymore": A case study on the importance of environmental factors in the migration biographies of Moroccan immigrants in Belgium. Nature + Culture, 18(2), 202-226. doi:10.3167/NC.2023.180204