2 December 2023

Johan Leman

The importance of mastery in policymaking

Policy must very seriously ask itself whether the former idea of treating integration policy and migration policy as strictly separable matters is still tenable? Evidently, there are points where the […]

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26 November 2023

Johan Leman

It is rewarding working with Roma young people

I don’t know who is the most discriminated community in Belgium. There is evidence that black skin color is a marker for major discrimination. Others will point to Islamophobia. Still […]

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17 November 2023

Johan Leman

How to deal with radicalising young people?

In a previous post, I suggested as my opinion, 1. that being radical and radicalising is not abnormal during puberty and adolescence, 2. that the internet helps spread the input […]

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12 November 2023

Johan Leman

Do young people radicalise more than they used to in the past and at a younger age?

Do young people radicalise more than they used to in the past and at a younger age? Is there anyone here among the readers who was not more radical in […]

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5 November 2023

Johan Leman

Proud we should not be as humanity

Ukraine – Russia, and now Israel – Gaza. Everyone knows that there will have to be dialogue at the end. The final stage will be settled at the table, even […]

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20 October 2023

Johan Leman

Schools in the face of serious problems, such as a terror threat

We had it again in Brussels. A murder of two Swedish supporters. Level 4 was immediately declared all over Brussels. A whole host of institutions closed their doors, including many […]

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16 October 2023

Johan Leman

Vincent Van Gogh in Molenbeek

Not many will know that Vincent Van Gogh once lived in Laeken, close to Tour and Taxis. From there, he regularly walked in the Maritime district, crossing what is now […]

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5 October 2023

Johan Leman

Who wins when a commune is cast in a bad light?

Both on 3 and 5 October, Bruzz published first an Opinion and then an informative article on once Molenbeek and Schaerbeek together, and then Molenbeek alone, casting the municipal management […]

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24 September 2023

Johan Leman

Intercultural mediation as a guarantee of mutual respect

The practice of intercultural mediation in healthcare dates back to the time of the Royal Commissariat for Migrant Policy. It is thus more than 30 years old. Flanders abolished the […]

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17 September 2023

Johan Leman

City-Brussels police and easy ethnic profiling

Recall late June-early July: riots evening and night in Paris. Risk of riots in Brussels. It is highly normal for the police to act pre-emptively to avoid the same in […]

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