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2 July 2024
Johan Leman
Traditionally, the successive phases of migrant integration were classified as follows: the first generation was followed by a second generation (i.e., their children), and the process concluded with the third […]
19 June 2024
Johan Leman
At the end of the 1980s, the first important message disseminated by the Royal Commissioner for Immigrant Policy was that people of Moroccan and Turkish origin would permanently remain in […]
13 June 2024
Johan Leman
You can’t miss it: if you listen to the workers of Moroccan and Turkish origin who arrived in Brussels between 1964 and 1974, they all, without exception, say that concern […]
8 June 2024
Johan Leman
Something that is often forgotten is that external influences, completely unrelated to the policies pursued in our country, can have very fundamental influences on the way immigrants integrate. I limit […]
2 June 2024
Johan Leman
Based on the 70 detailed interviews I held with people from that period until today, I remember not only many similarities, but also some differences in their migration scenario. I […]
25 May 2024
Johan Leman
I have currently conducted and re-listened to 50 interviews with Belgo-Moroccans and 20 interviews with Belgo-Turks who were actively themselves migrants or children of migrants in the 1960s. A few […]
17 May 2024
Johan Leman
Friday 17 May, 16:00 hours. In one week, 545 people have signed the petition to have a small iconic statue put back in its place, once the works on the […]
12 May 2024
Johan Leman
You expect the statue of Breydel and De Coninck in Bruges, not in Ghent. You expect Jacob van Artevelde in Ghent, not in Bruges or Antwerp. Such statues do not […]
2 May 2024
Johan Leman
In the 19th century, the Brussels canal did not follow its current course. The Charleroi – Brussels canal stopped at the Place Sainctelette. Since the 16th century, there was indeed […]
25 April 2024
Johan Leman
As part of this research for the MMM museum, giving a voice to someone from that time or to one of their children, one of the questions I ask is […]