This book offers an improved understanding of European higher education, both from a scientific and a policy point of view. Lire la suite
The analysis of universities is a topic which attracts more and more attention in social sciences, and especially in economics since the connection between the functioning of higher education and economic growth is increasingly recognized. The various chapters of this book are therefore interesting in a double perspective : from a “pure research” point of view but also, for many of them, from a public policy point of view. This is especially true for the first set of chapters, which focus on the organization of higher education systems, including (i) discussions of pleas for higher inflows of (public and private) money and for institutional reforms to improve their “value for money”; and (ii) evaluations of existing reforms, like the Bologna process which favors compatibility between teaching programmes and the mobility of students. The second set of chapters concerns the positioning of individual higher education institutions, with implications about their strategies stemming from the multi-tasking nature of their mission; and also analyses of individual researcher and student behavior, with an emphasis on topics like the role of career incentives of researchers, the adoption of new technologies by students or the predictability of their success rate. Whether the book takes a “systemic” or an “individual” perspective, it builds on a variety of approaches, from microeconomic theory to empirical methodologies, including econometric analyses as well as evidence collected from surveys.
The contributions presented in this book are samples of outputs from research questions that have been at the heart of a multiuniversity project – with researchers from Université Libre de Bruxelles, Facultés Universitaires Catholiques de Mons, Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Université de Mons-Hainaut, Universiteit Antwerpen and Université de Toulouse – funded by the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (under its PAI/IAP Programme).
Chapter 1 - The Perspectives of Implementation in Migration Policies: An Introduction 7 | Federica Infantino and Djordje Sredanovic
Chapter 2 - A Market of Refugees? Relocation and Resettlement Practices in Malta | Léa Lemaire
Chapter 3 - Mobilizing Local Practical Knowledge: Granting of Schengen Visas at the Belgian Consulate General in Casablanca | Federica Infantino and Andrea Rea
Chapter 4 - Selection and Control of Moroccan Student Migration to Belgium | Andrea Rea and Morgane Giladi
Chapter 5 - The Irregularization of Mobility: Performing Border Control at the Airport | Andrew Crosby and Andrea Rea
Chapter 6 - Asylum Caseworkers as Policy-makers: The Recognition of SOGI Persecutions as a Ground to Grant Refugees Status in Belgium | Ahmed Hamila
Chapter 7 - Curbing Marriages of Convenience: When Politicization Comes Back | Carla Mascia
Chapter 8 - Variable Filters: Local Bureaucracies in Citizenship and Nationality Procedures in the UK and Belgium | Djordje Sredanovic
Chapter 9 - Granting Healthcare to the Unwanted. Professional Ethos and Daily Practices of Social Workers Assessing Medical Assistance Requests from Undocumented Migrants | Morgane Giladi and Sophie Andreetta
Chapter 10 - The Humanization of Immigration Detention and the Abjection of Detainees | Andrew Crosby
Chapter 11- Migration Control and Autonomy Beyond Dichotomies. The Role of Migrants in the Implementation of Voluntary Returns from Morocco | Anissa Maâ